Big names lending assistance with Citizenship NOW! immigration hotline
Get your questions about immigration and citizenship ready! Phone lines will be open Monday morning starting at 10 a.m. for the 14th CUNY/Daily News Citizenship NOW! immigration hotline. A long list of local and national dignitaries — including Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Timothy Cardinal Dolan — are set to visit the hotline headquarters at Guttman Community College in Manhattan this week. Organizers of the yearly call-in are preparing to help thousands during the campaign, which runs from Monday through Friday.More than 400 volunteers — supervised by experienced attorneys — will be answering calls and giving free and confidential citizenship and immigration information between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. They will refer callers to organizations in their area that can help them in person with their applications for free or at a low cost.
The hotline — which fields calls in scores of languages, from English and Spanish to Mandarin, Bengali and Arabic — has helped more than 143,000 callers since it was launched in 2004.
Call the immigration hotline now:
English: (212) 278-2390
Spanish: (212) 278-2380
Deaf/Hard of hearing: 711
KJ