Legal clinic focuses on immigrants

Advocacy Project offers free or low-cost counsel, eyes statewide impact.

Filling a need to provide counsel and clear up misinformation, Teton County is home to the first comprehensive immigrant legal aid program in the state.

The Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project is offering consultations at 140 E. Broadway, just off the Town Square. Founder and immigration attorney Rosie Read said she hopes that in the long term the nonprofit will improve access to legal services statewide and help immigrants successfully navigate the convoluted world of immigration law.

Read opened the nonprofit last year and ran a one-woman show until this spring, when she brought on Mike Welch to serve as executive director. The two aim to start taking cases and moving people off the wait-list this fall, once they have hired a legal assistant.