Law firm providing free legal aid to Ukrainian families

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Starting up about in a overseas region, following fleeing your very own because of war, is a little something several of us have not and will not knowledge.

For Ukrainian households, that adjustment is nonetheless a do the job in development.

“Just generating guaranteed their simple requirements are covered has been essential,” reported Veronica Gromada. 

Gromada and her law organization of Shook, Hardy and Bacon are functioning to provide free of charge authorized help to at the very least six Ukrainian family members who not long ago resettled  in Jacksonville.

“It really is the type of grassroots efforts that may, inspite of what may be heading on politically, it really is the sort of undercurrent in the DNA of this place that goes on each day,” she described.

She’s supporting them apply for non permanent protecting position for the next 18 months, and it’s something the US Office of Homeland Protection announced for Ukrainians in March.  

“We just have to have to see a lot extra of this on a reliable foundation,” she said.

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Gromada is also acquiring help from a longtime mate and former regulation faculty classmate, herself an immigrant from Ukraine, who is operating right with people like the Stozhok’s who we released you to very last month.

The spouse and children fled their home and ended up ready to relocate in Jacksonville.

Gromada states far more households are envisioned to discover refuge in this article, and they could use some assist finding acclimated.

“More desires to be finished and whatsoever we can do as a higher society, I just implore all people to do what they can,” she said.

If you would like to aid these resettling in Jacksonville, you can e mail Natalia Plyam at [email protected].