CUNY Citizenship Now! provides free, high quality, and confidential immigration law services to help individuals and families on their path to U.S. citizenship. CUNY Citizenship Now! attorneys and paralegals offer one-on-one consultations to assess participants’ eligibility for legal benefits and assist them in applying when qualified. For contact information for CUNY Citizenship Now! offices, please visit www1.cuny.edu/sites/citizenship-now/about/contact-2.

WHO DOES THIS PROGRAM AIM TO SERVE? CUNY Citizenship NOW! continues to provide consultations on all family-based and naturalization cases. However, assistance with applications will be limited to green card renewals, citizenship, Deferred Actio for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). All other applications will resume when CUNY reopens to the public.

HAS THIS PROGRAM BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19? No. However, due to COVID-19, CUNY Citizenship NOW! will only provide legal services remotely until further notice.

ABOUT CUNY: The City University of New York (CUNY) has 24 modern campuses spanning the five boroughs of New York, including; Senior Colleges, Community Colleges, and Graduate Schools. 

Providing a quality, accessible education, regardless of background or means, has been CUNY’s mission since 1847. Every year, hundreds of thousands of students – including a record 274,000 degree-credit students – choose The City University of New York for a multitude of reasons that can be summed up as one: opportunity.

The University’s seven community colleges provide a high-quality education through associate degree programs that prepare students for transfer to senior colleges or entry into professional careers. The CUNY Graduate Center offers more than 30 doctoral programs. CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy, a collaboration of four CUNY institutions, offers master’s and doctoral degrees. The CUNY School of Law is recognized as the nation’s premier public-interest law school.