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Refugee Service

Legal Aid NSW specialist statewide service.

The Refugee Service is a statewide specialist service of Legal Aid NSW based in Fairfield.  We help newly arrived refugees with civil (including immigration) law and family law legal problems. We can also talk with you about criminal law matters that you might be involved in. Our help is free and confidential.

We only help clients who:

  • are on a Refugee or Humanitarian Visa (i.e. 200, 201, 202, 203, 204 and 866 visas)
  • have arrived in Australia within the last six years.

Our lawyers assist refugee clients and communities with problems like:

  • immigration
  • housing
  • Centrelink
  • fines, bills and debts
  • consumer problems with goods, services or contracts
  • discrimination or harassment
  • car accidents
  • employment
  • domestic and family violence
  • divorce
  • separation and arrangements for children.

Advice and minor assistance

We provide free legal advice and minor assistance to refugee clients in all types of civil and family law legal issues. Advice clinics are face-to-face at different locations around New South Wales.

Representation

If you need extra help we can represent you in Tribunals and Courts in many different kinds of matters. We can help with housing issues, problems with Centrelink, issues with the Department of Immigration, or if you need extra help with family law problems like getting a divorce.  

Community Legal Education

We can provide face to face presentations and information sessions, workshops and attend community events across NSW. 

Our bilingual Community Engagement Officer can organise for one of our lawyers to give talks to communities around NSW on many different topics, including:

  • immigration, bringing your family to Australia as a refugee, partner visas, child visas and general immigration law
  • family law, divorce and separation and matters with children
  • citizenship
  • Centrelink 
  • housing
  • fines and driving issues 

Request a CLE session by requesting a workshop using the form below.

If you would like to make an appointment or request a community legal education workshop for your community group, you can:

The Refugee Service is based at the Fairfield Legal Aid Office. However the team provides an outreach service to a variety of locations (such as Migrant Resource Centres) across South West and Western Sydney.

You can make an appointment to see one of our lawyers at any one of these locations:

  • Fairfield
  • Liverpool
  • Mount Druitt
  • Newcastle
  • Wollongong
  • Coffs harbour
  • Armidale
  • Wagga Wagga
  • Albury

We are available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Our office is closed on weekends and public holidays.

Request a workshop

Request a workshop form

Use this form to request a Community Legal Education workshop.