History

Open Door Immigration Services was established in 2015 out of the vision of a community of immigrants at Anchor Bay Church (formerly Highrock North Shore Church) in Beverly, MA, who themselves had experienced the complex and grueling process of achieving legal status. Since then, we have grown and evolved to include education and community outreach initiatives to leverage our impact and have achieved accreditation by the Department of Justice (2017) to offer immigration legal services, serving hundreds of immigrants over the past seven years.

ODIS’ mission is to love and serve our immigrant neighbors by providing affordable and no-cost immigration legal services and, together, opening the door to full community engagement. Our immigrant neighbors are arguably some of the community’s most vulnerable. We strive to support them in accessing a continuum of legal services and associated educational programs that they could not otherwise afford, helping to prevent them from being taken advantage of by unscrupulous individuals and entities and putting them on the path to full civic participation.

ODIS never turns away a client based on their ability to pay.