Dechert advocates for immigrants, handling individual cases and systemic issues. In the U.S., the firm assists asylum seekers and children fleeing instability to secure lawful immigration status.
Our Dublin office assist teenage refugees from Afghanistan and Somalia with family reunification applications to enable them to bring their families to join them in safety (see video at right).
In Paris, the firm collaborates with Alliance Des Avocats Pour Les Droits De L'Homme to support unaccompanied minors, while the London office supports Bail for Immigration Detainees with applications for exceptional case funding to secure detainees right to legal aid representation.
Through our work with KIND our London office assist undocumented children with British citizenship applications, securing their future in the UK. The firm also helps survivors of human trafficking file for T-Visas, enabling them to legally live and work in the U.S.
Dechert advocates for immigrants, handling individual cases and systemic issues. In the U.S., the firm assists asylum seekers and children fleeing instability to secure lawful immigration status.
Our Dublin office assist teenage refugees from Afghanistan and Somalia with family reunification applications to enable them to bring their families to join them in safety (see video at right).
In Paris, the firm collaborates with Alliance Des Avocats Pour Les Droits De L'Homme to support unaccompanied minors, while the London office supports Bail for Immigration Detainees with applications for exceptional case funding to secure detainees right to legal aid representation.
Through our work with KIND our London office assist undocumented children with British citizenship applications, securing their future in the UK. The firm also helps survivors of human trafficking file for T-Visas, enabling them to legally live and work in the U.S.
Dechert's international teams support refugees in response to global crises. Lawyers advise Ukrainian refugees on status applications and provide legal advice in Dublin, Brussels and the U.S. In Paris, lawyers assist Afghan nationals with family reunification and in Hong Kong the firm partners with UNHCR to help refugees obtain work permits. We also support refugees based in Hong Kong with applications to resettle in Canada through our work with RUN HK.
Dechert has a robust practice advocating for human trafficking victims, helping them obtain immigration relief and compensation from traffickers. The firm has focused on supporting domestic servants trafficked by diplomats in the U.S., playing a key role in a case where the court ruled that "residual immunity" did not extend to the treatment of domestic workers. Lawyers also assisted victims outside the diplomatic context, securing a T-Visa for a labor-trafficked Zambian girl and vacated over 90 prostitution convictions for a sex-trafficked woman in New York.
