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State Aid Application (Formerly Paper FAFSA)

Health & Wellness

Simply Salud (Simplemente Salud)

Simply Salud is a health office located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Providers work collaboratively to offer best health outcomes for patients. Each provider is fully bilingual (English / Spanish) and dedicated to the care of the patient. Anyone is welcome regardless of health insurance or immigration status. To keep prices down, they don’t accept health insurance. If you have insurance, you can use it for lab testing, radiology studies and medications prescribed.

First Choice Clinics

First Choice Community Healthcare is a health care organization that maintains excellence in programs and services with a constant focus on the changing needs of individuals and communities.

They provide primary medical care, dental care and WIC services and have integrated behavioral health care in the primary care setting for their established patients. They have provided a healthcare care home for their patients for over 40 years. They play an integral role in providing access to all people regardless of income or insurance status.

Their goal is to provide same day and after-hours access to dignity based medical services from conventional, natural and traditional health traditions.  They seek to create an environment that promotes dignity and responsibility for patients, staff, and clinicians. They provide fair priced health care to anyone in need. 

Centro Savila

Centro Sávila is a treatment program devoted to the recovery and healing of individuals, families, and communities suffering from emotional and psychological distress.Their services are offered in English and Spanish and accessible to community members regardless of their ability to pay. 

UNM Student Health and Counseling

SHAC provides counseling services to all UNM Students who are facing with excessive stress or difficult personal problems, psychological and psychiatric support may be helpful or necessary. SHAC also provides medical services such as women's and men health check, Immunization, physical therapy, lab and x-ray tests. Any UNM student, regardless of documentation status can access these services.

Community Resources

Please note that this list of resources is gathered to provide information for folks but is not intended as an endorsement or advertisement for them.  Please use at your discretion. 

New Mexico Support Services

Catholic Charities  505-724-4674 

  • They provide low-cost immigration legal assistance to immigrants, U.S. citizens, and U.S. legal permanent residents in gaining or maintaining immigration status for themselves or for family members in order to preserve or restore family unity. 
  • They also provide free immigration legal assistance to immigrant victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in determining/gaining immigration benefits (e.g., legal permanent resident status or work permits).

Santa Fe Dreamers Project 505-490-2789

  • Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides high quality, accessible legal services across New Mexico and West Texas. We partner with our clients to meet their individual legal goals, including humanitarian protection, family unity, economic empowerment, and liberation from detention.

El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos   505-246-1627

  • Immigrants’ rights and workers’ justice organization based in Albuquerque

Consulate of Mexico   505-247-2147

  • Immigration resource center 

Enlace Comunitario   505-246-8972

  • They specializes in culturally and linguistically specific survivor services, but provide support to any DV survivor in need

NM Dream Team

  • The New Mexico Dream Team is a statewide network committed to create power for multigenerational, undocumented, and mixed status families towards liberation. Through trainings and leadership development, we work to engage our community and allies, in becoming leaders using an intersectional, gender, and racial justice lens—to develop and implement an organizing and advocacy infrastructure for policy change fighting to dismantle systemic oppression.

National Support Services

ACLU

  • Protects civil liberties through legal advocacy, challenging unjust laws and policies while pushing for policy changes at local, state, and federal levels.
  • They educate the public on civil rights issues through campaigns, reports, and resources to empower individuals.
  • Their community engagement efforts help people assert their rights and address systemic injustices. Covering issues like immigrants' rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, and reproductive freedom, the ACLU works to ensure equal rights for all.

Immigrants Rising  

  • Provides resources to help undocumented individuals access higher education, scholarships, and financial aid.
  • They offer entrepreneurship support, legal self-employment guidance, and career development programs, including opportunities in law and other professional fields.
  • Their mental health services include wellness support groups and connections to mental health professionals, while their immigration law resources provide guidance on Advance Parole and legal pathways.

Immigrant Advocates Network 

  • Provides a national immigration legal services directory that helps users locate free or low-cost immigration legal services provided by nonprofit organizations across the United States.
  • Individuals can search for service providers by state, county, or detention facility, and refine their search based on specific legal assistance areas, populations served, and languages spoken.

National Immigrant Justice Center

  • The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) provides legal services to asylum seekers, DACA recipients, and individuals applying for citizenship, green cards, or Temporary Protected Status.
  • They support detained immigrants, victims of human trafficking, LGBTQ immigrants, and unaccompanied children by offering specialized legal assistance.
  • NIJC also helps individuals navigate immigration court, including Afghan parolees and Venezuelan TPS applicants. Through these services, NIJC works to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants by ensuring access to justice and legal representation.

United We Dream 

  • United We Dream provides support for DACA recipients, deportation defense, and educational access to ensure immigrant youth have opportunities to thrive.
  • They also offer mental health resources through their UndocuHealth program and empower young leaders to advocate for immigrant rights.
  • Through policy advocacy and community organizing, UWD fights for systemic change to protect and uplift undocumented individuals and their families.

Know Your Rights!

New Mexico Immigrant Law Center Toolkits

Immigration Attorneys-Albuquerque

  •       Alejandro Macias-Urias 505-289-1832
  •     Amber L. Weeks 505-352-6660
  •       Benosi Maduka 505-357-0938
  •       Cristina Chavez 505-506-0236
  •       Cristina Legarreta Huerta 505-339-5594
  •       Emma Riley O’Sullivan 505-255-2840
  •       Iris Calderon Godina 505-264-6985
  •       James S Hassan 505-369-6373
  •       Jasmine McGee 505-247-1023
  •       Javier Martinez-Villanueva Jr. 505-553-1129
  •       Joaquin Sanchez-Leal 505-333-9139
  •       John Walter Lawit 505-545-6785
  •       Krystina Catarineu 505-337-3505
  •       Lizdebeth Carrasco-Gallardo 505-246-1023
  •       Mary Ann Romero 505-796-2024
  •       Melvyn Baron 505-268-2121
  •       Michael Eugene Hendricks 505-596-6758
  •       Monica Newcomer Miller 505-247-1023
  •       Olsi Vrapi 505-352-6660
  •       Rebecca Kitson 505-508-4015
  •       Scott David Weaver 505-218-726
  •       Theresa B. Wilkes 505-247-1023
  •       Victoria Leigh Lucero 505-343-2009

Immigration Attorneys-Bernalillo

  • Kathryn Suzanne Almond 505-867-3391

Immigration Attorneys-Corrales 

  •  Brett S. Janos 505-227-4939 

Immigration Attorneys-Santa Fe 

  •       Allegra S. Love 505-699-4288 
  •       Deshawnda Chaparro 505-490-2789 
  •       Eunice Herrera 505-819-0141 
  •       Evelyn Herrera 505-216-6658 
  •       Gabriela C. Ibanez Guzman 505-983-6247
  •       Gabriela C. Ibanez Guzman 505-983-6247
  •       Jennifer Elena Mendoza 505-551-1272
  •       Jessica Noemi Aguirre 505-490-2789
  •       Richard Padilla 505-954-3662 

Immigration Attorneys-Socorro 

  • Chukwudi M. Chigewe 505-431-5947 

Immigration Attorneys-Las Cruces 

  • Raymundo Eli Rojas 575-526-7765

Immigration Attorneys-Hobbs 

  • Ricardo Jasso 575-408-7362, 575-942-1303 

Immigration Attorneys-Chaparral

  • Lorely Ramirez Fernandez 575-824-8900 
  • Mason Lee Hill 859-321-9662 

Last updated 2/05/25, list provided through : https://www.justia.com/lawyers/immigration-law/new-mexico/albuquerque?page=2 . 

 

 

El Centro's Commitment

We work diligently to offer a welcoming and safe space with personalized support and advocacy to undocumented students and their families. El Centro is committed to building a sense of community, a supportive environment and, advocating for students to be successful in higher education, regardless of their background or immigration status.

Did you know?

In the State of New Mexico we have a law commonly referred to as SB 582 which has been around since 2005. This law establishes two things:

1. Universities are prohibited from discriminating against students based on their immigration status; and

2. Provides in-state tuition and state funds such as the Legislative Lottery Scholarship if you:

  • Attended a year of secondary education in New Mexico and
  • Graduated or obtained a GED (or equivalent) in New Mexico