NYU Immigrant Defense Fund
The NYU Immigrant Defense Initiative (IDI) provides free consultations and legal representation to NYU community members, including students, staff and their immediate family members. Among its many initiatives, IDI helps dozens of community members apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Since the creation of DACA in 2012, the program has been under constant attack. Most recently, the U.S District Court of the Southern District of Texas issued a decision finding DACA unlawful but allowing DACA recipients to continue renewing their work authorizations.
Gathering the funds to apply for renewal has often been difficult, but with the COVID-19 pandemic and the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from crucial safety net programs, application fees for DACA have become particularly difficult. We are writing to ask you to consider contributing to the NYU Immigrant Defense Fund to help cover these fees for NYU community members and support DACA recipients. All money raised through this fund will be used to help cover immigration application fees for NYU community members. Our goal is to raise $10,000 by March 2024. This will allow us to cover the cost of applications for 20 NYU community members. Every dollar you donate will put us closer to our goal of keeping immigrant families together!
CLICK HERE to make a contribution now (be sure to specify your contribution is for the NYU Immigrant Defense Fund under “Other Designation”). If you have any questions, you can contact the NYU Immigrant Defense Initiative at immigrant.defense@law.nyu.edu or 212-998-6640.
