Access to Legal Services

Although MUA does not provide legal services directly, we seek to ensure that Latina immigrant women and their families can access high-quality legal services for immigration-related issues, as well as domestic violence and workers' rights cases.

In 2007, MUA helped found SFILEN (the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Services and Education Network). Through this network, MUA is able to connect our members with legal partners at Dolores Street Community Services, CARECEN, La Raza Centro Legal, La Raza Community Resource Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus, and Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach for remedies. related to immigration status related to violence, such as VAWA and the U and T Visa program, as well as deportation defense.

In the East Bay, MUA is a co-founder of ACILEP (Alameda County Immigrant Legal and Education Association), through which we connect our members with legal services at the Centro Legal de la Raza and the Alameda County Public Defender's Office.

For domestic violence cases, we work closely with CROC (Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic) in San Francisco and FVLC (Family Violence Law Center) in Alameda County, to help keep our members and their children safe.

MUA also regularly works with lawyers from Legal aid at work y Women's Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University to provide representation to domestic workers and other low-income immigrant workers whose rights have been violated.