The William Wilberforce Center for Justice and Human Rights
Welcoming and Serving our City's Newest Neighbors
Our Mission
To seek justice and mercy for immigrants and refugees by providing legal services, advocacy, and compassionate support—strengthening lives, families, and communities.
We believe every person bears God-given dignity. Guided by our faith and rooted in our city, we work to ensure that vulnerable newcomers are welcomed, protected, and empowered to thrive.
What We Do
We provide high-quality, low-cost legal services to those fleeing persecution, seeking opportunities, or rebuilding their lives in the United States.
Our areas of service include:
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Asylum & Refugee Protection
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Emergency Humanitarian Parole
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Religious Worker & Ministry Visas
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Mandamus Actions
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Citizenship & Naturalization​
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Family-Based Immigration
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Student Visas
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Employment Visas
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Advocacy for Persecuted Groups
Our Model
Legal services alone are not enough. Lasting transformation happens
through high-touch, holistic support, which is why we offer:
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Professional Immigration Legal Counsel
Life Coaching & Cultural Orientation
Citizenship Classes & Community Support
Partnerships With Local Churches and Volunteers
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By pairing expert legal work with compassionate relationships,
we help newcomers not just survive—but flourish.
The Wilberforce Center is doing vital immigration work in our community and in the lives of our new neighbors from Afghanistan. As a co-sponsor for two families resettling here in our community, I have been blown away by the compassionate care and professionalism that they bring to the immigration process. Every family arriving in our city deserves to be welcomed with the sense of dignity and level of care and attention that they offer."
Mary Katherine Bell, Afghan Family Sponsor
The Man Who Changed History
William Wilberforce (1759–1833) was an English statesman and a courageous leader of the movement to end the transatlantic slave trade. A tireless advocate for human dignity, he devoted his life to pursuing justice, compassion, and societal reform. His story—portrayed in the film Amazing Grace—remains a powerful example of faith, courage, compassion, and perseverance.
At the Wilberforce Center, we draw inspiration from his legacy as we work to protect the vulnerable, defend the oppressed, and extend hope to those seeking freedom and a new beginning.
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am on of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large."
William Wilberforce
Contact Us
at the William Wilberforce Center
Office Address:
5572 Garden Village Way, Greensboro, NC 27410
Email: info@wilberforcecenter.com
Tel: 336-815-0123
Fax: 336-232-1716
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PO Box 4755, Greensboro, NC 27404
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