The Justice Center provides legal assistance to low-income North Carolinians in carefully selected, high-impact cases that are designed to help alleviate poverty by protecting or expanding important rights for large numbers of vulnerable people. Targeted areas of law include consumer rights, housing, immigrant rights, access to health care, public education, and worker rights. We focus on impact cases that will positively affect a large number of people by creating changes in policy, practice, or law. We are geographically focused on eastern North Carolina, a region of the state which has not prospered economically and which has a large and growing immigrant population. We provide free representation to low-income immigrants seeking lawful immigration status and relief from deportation. We can only assist individuals who currently live in North Carolina.

If you need immigration help, please call us on Tuesdays at 1-888-251-2776 (toll free) from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This phone number is for immigration legal assistance only. Calls are answered by paralegals that are fluent in English and Spanish. Due to the large demand for our services, we can only accept calls from possible new clients on Tuesdays. If no one answers the phone when you call, please continue calling until you are able to reach a live person. Please do not call other staff members as you will only be directed to contact the toll free number. We cannot accept "walk-in" clients.

Mission Statement: The North Carolina Justice Center is one of the state’s preeminent voices for economic and social justice. As a leading progressive research and advocacy organization, our mission is to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services, and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security. To make opportunity and prosperity for all a reality, we work toward: Jobs that are safe, pay a living wage, and provide benefits Access to quality and affordable health care Quality public education for every child Consumer protections from abusive practices Safe and affordable housing Public investments that expand opportunities for economic security A fair and stable revenue system that adequately funds public investments while fairly distributing tax responsibility Fair treatment for everyone in North Carolina – regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation