The Political Asylum/ Immigration Representation Project (PAIR) is a nationally recognized pro bono model that works to secure safety and freedom for asylum-seekers who have fled from persecution throughout the world and to promote the rights of immigrants unjustly detained. PAIR provides hope and a new beginning to asylum-seekers, torture survivors and immigration detainees.

PAIR was formed in 1989, a coalition of legal services agencies, civil rights and civil liberties organizations, and bar associations responded to meet an emergency need for legal representation of 83 workers, mostly from El Salvador, whom the INS arrested at the Suffolk Downs racetrack in Revere, Massachusetts.

Please go to the links for a full description of our staff, board and pro bono attorneys. For a description of our programs, please go to the links for asylum and detention.