Immigrant Support Atlas

Foreign-born share over time

How the immigrant share of the population shifts across the country. Press play to animate. Source: US Census ACS 5-year.

Access to immigrant-serving organizations

Spatial access by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method (E2SFCA). Darker green = better access; orange = a service desert (people who need it, but no organization within reach); gray = no foreign-born population. Source: org locations + US Census ACS 2023.

Immigrant Policy Inclusion Index

How inclusive each state’s policies are toward immigrants, across seven domains: health coverage, language access, higher education, identification, integration & licensure, legal protection, and economic inclusion. Darker green = more inclusive; orange/red = more restrictive or limited. Click any state for its full profile.

Immigrant–Native Disparity Index

Standardized gaps between foreign-born and US-born residents (uninsured, crowded housing, rent burden, education, home internet, vehicle access, homeownership) from US Census ACS. Green = smaller gaps; red = larger gaps. This is an outcome measure, separate from the Policy map: it describes how immigrant and US-born residents differ, and is shaped by who has immigrated where (recency and composition), not by state policy alone. Click any state for its full profile.

English assimilationism

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Immigrant attitudes

Project Implicit is a self-selected volunteer sample, not a representative survey; within each area, respondents are reweighted to the Census population by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. Higher = less welcoming. Areas with too few respondents are left blank. See the note below for the exact survey item. Source: Project Implicit 2023-2025.

Bernardo Kohler Center

P. O. Box 42185, Austin, TX 78704

Bernardo Kohler Center is a nonprofit organization in Austin, Texas that serves immigrants and refugees.

The Bernardo Kohler Center provides free/low-cost immigration legal assistance to low-income, largely Spanish-speaking immigrants, including SIJ cases, crime-victim visas, naturalization, and family-based petitions.

Mission

IMMIGRATION LAW ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME PERSONS CITIZENSHIP: 1. Helping Lawful Permanent Residents to Naturalize as U.S. citizens 2. Helping foreign born persons who acquired citizenship at birth to document their citizenship 3. Helping immigrants who derived citizenship, as a child though a parent, to document their citizenship 6 cases FAMILY UNIFICATION: Helping close relatives of U.S, citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents with the process of gaining Lawful Permanent Residency in the U.S.

Services

Read from the organization's website.

  • Citizenship: “Helping Lawful Permanent Residents to Naturalize as U.S.”
  • Family reunification: “Helping close relatives of U.S, citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents with the process of gaining Lawful Permanent Residency in the U.S.”
  • Interpretation / translation: “Renewal of cards, translations, appearances in court, communication with USCIS, DOS/NVC, DOJ”
  • Legal / immigration: “IMMIGRATION LAW ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME PERSONS”

Languages

Services delivered in Spanish.

Website in more than one language.

Communities served

Hispanic/Latino.

Service area: Austin, Texas.

Federal recognition and registries

  • DOJ-recognized immigration legal provider

Contact

Founded 2002. IRS NTEE code R20. Latest Form 990: 2022. EIN 74-3009319.

Other organizations in Austin

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Sources: IRS exempt-organization records, Form 990 filings, federal and network directories, and the organization's own website. Data as of October 19, 2026. Information here can change; contact the organization to confirm.

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Immigrant profiles by origin, language, and race / ethnicity

Pick a group to see its own profile: how large it is and how it lives, with the all-foreign-born and US-born averages shown for context. National estimates from US Census ACS 1-year microdata (PUMS).