General Resources
Just Neighbors recognizes our community’s need to access resources that will assist you in caring for yourself and your family. Browse these links to discover local organizations offering resources for food, clothing, medical assistance, housing, and more:
- Find resources for food, medical care, housing, and more just by searching your zip code: Find Help
- Food assistance resources, available in English and Spanish: Food Helpline
- Find local doctors and medical providers based on your insurance or self-payment plan: Zocdoc
- Find community resources across Northern and Rural Virginia with the Virginia Department of Social Services handbook for community resources across Northern and Rural Virginia. Available in English.
- Sign up to receive the Office of New American’s Monthly newsletter which offers information on local resources and upcoming events in Virginia.
Health Insurance for Immigrants
Toolkits in English and Spanish for Navigating what to do in an encounter with ICE
Many immigrants qualify to receive health insurance. The Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) permits individuals who are “lawfully present” in the United States to apply for health insurance as of January 1, 2014. The following is a list of immigrants who are considered “lawfully present” in the U.S. for purposes of the Affordable Care Act. Updated information on who qualifies for the Affordable Care Act is available from the National Immigration Law Center. To sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, visit HealthCare.gov.
- Lawful permanent residents (or those with Green Cards)
- Applicants for lawful permanent residence with approved I-130 / I-140 and pending I-485
- Refugees
- Asylees
- Withholding of removal status
Applicants for asylum / withholding of removal, with certain restrictions - Temporary protected status
- Deferred enforced departure
- Deferred action (except for DACAs)
- Special immigrant juvenile status
- VAWA approved applicants
- T visa holders
- U visa holders
- Non-immigrant visa holders who are in status
- Convention against torture grantees
- Cuban and Haitian entrants
- Paroled into the U.S., for at least one year
- Conditional entrants: pre-1980 asylees
- Citizens of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau
- LIFE Act applicants with employment authorization documents (EADs) and certain family members
- Lawful temporary residents
- Applicants for cancellation of removal
- Immigrants with order of supervision
- Registry applicants
Social Services for Refugees and Asylees
If you are seeking social services for refugees and asylees, these organizations may be able to help:
Refugees and asylees have the right to work. For more information, refer to the flier for employers and refugees and asylees from the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC).
Non-Immigration Legal Providers in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia
If you need legal services not related to immigration (such as divorce, child custody, employment or discrimination issues), you may find help from these providers.
Greater DMV Area:
Virginia:
- Legal Services of Northern Virginia
- Legal Aid Justice Center
- VA Legal Aid
- Central Virginia Legal Aid Society
- Virginia Legal Aid Society
- Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia
- Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society
- Blue Ridge Legal Services, Inc.
Maryland: