From asylum filing to apartment lease — lawyers, translators, and community navigators walk beside every family. Every form translated. Every hearing attended. Every child enrolled.
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Every case in our files begins the same way — a person alone with documents they cannot read, in a system that cannot hear them.
"We had a plastic bag with four documents. The officer at the desk pointed at a form in English. My husband looked at me. I looked at him. Neither of us could read a single word."
María, 34 — asylum seeker · 2 children · 0 English words
"I was an electrical engineer for twelve years. At the border they wrote "unskilled" on my form. I did not argue. I did not have the words to argue."
Dawit, 38 — engineer · credential recognition pending · alone
"They gave me a caseworker. She called on Tuesday. She had sixty other names. I counted — she spoke to me for four minutes. Then she said she would call again next week."
Amara, 16 — unaccompanied minor · no family in country · case #4,412
In 2025, SafePassage opened 312 new cases. Each one began with a phone call to a number someone handwrote on a napkin, a church bulletin, or the back of a bus pass.
We don't describe our services by org chart. We describe them by the people who needed them most.
94% hearing attendance rate
across all open cases
Our immigration attorneys sit at the same table — your kitchen table, if that's where you need us. We prepare asylum applications, attend credible fear interviews, and argue appeals. We don't disappear after the filing.
María Reyes filed her I-589 in October. Her attorney attended three rescheduled hearings across fourteen months. In March, the judge said yes.
23 languages
spoken by our team
We provide certified translation for legal documents, school enrollment packets, medical forms, and lease agreements. Our interpreters attend court hearings live — not by phone.
Dawit's engineering credentials were translated, notarized, and submitted to three state licensing boards. He passed his equivalency exam on the first try.
8 days
average to school enrollment
Unaccompanied minors receive a dedicated navigator — one person, one name, available by text. We coordinate with school districts, medical providers, and housing services so a 16-year-old isn't carrying a sixty-case caseload on their shoulders.
Amara's navigator enrolled her in school within eight days of her first call. She's now in 11th grade. She wants to study medicine.
67 days
average case open to lease signed
Winning asylum is the beginning, not the end. Our navigators walk families through housing applications, utility setup, food assistance enrollment, driver's license paperwork, and first-job interviews. The bureaucracy doesn't stop — neither do we.
312 families navigated housing applications in 2025. Average time from case open to signed lease: 67 days.
Volunteer your legal hours, translation skills, or community knowledge. The families you'll meet are already doing everything right — they just need someone who knows the system.
These are not outcomes. These are people. The ones you met at the top of this page.
María and her children received asylum status after fourteen months of hearings. She is now enrolled in an ESL program at the community college three blocks from their apartment. Her daughter, Valentina, is in second grade. She reads faster than anyone in her class.
🏠 Apartment signed. School enrolled.
The family who arrived with four documents in a plastic bag.
After eight months of translated transcripts, notarized credentials, and three licensing board submissions, Dawit passed his professional engineering equivalency exam. He starts his first U.S. job in April. His employer is a renewable energy firm in Denver.
⚡ Engineer. Recognized. Hired.
The engineer who was written down as "unskilled."
Amara is in 11th grade. She has a 3.8 GPA. She is studying for the SAT. Her navigator still texts her every Tuesday — not because the case requires it, but because that is what you do when you know someone. She wants to study medicine. She will.
📚 GPA 3.8. SAT prep. Medicine.
The teenager whose caseworker had sixty other names.
89%
of asylum cases we accompany result in favorable decisions
847+
families have moved from crisis to stability since 2014
$0
charged to any family for any service, ever
SafePassage runs entirely on donated time, translated documents, and people who show up. Choose how you want to walk alongside a family.
Immigration attorneys, paralegals, and law students can take pro bono case hours or assist with document review. We match your availability to open cases.
Offer Legal HelpFluent in Spanish, Arabic, Tigrinya, Somali, Haitian Creole, or any of 20+ other languages? Court interpreters and document translators are needed every week.
Offer TranslationA $50 donation covers a certified translation. $200 covers filing fees for one asylum case. $500 covers a navigator's full month of support for one family.
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