Administrative Relief
https://www.adminrelief.org

Government site which provides up-to-date information on the recent Administrative Relief. The agency is the Committee for Immigration Reform Implementation (CIRI).

Advocates for Human Rights, The
http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org

Non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights. Offers legal representation, medical and psychological evaluations, and interpretation and translation services.

America's Voice
http://americasvoice.org

The mission of America’s Voice (AV) and America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) is to harness the power of American voices and American values to enact policy change that guarantees full labor, civil and political rights for immigrants and their families. We work in partnership with progressive, faith-based, labor, civil rights, and grassroots groups, networks and leaders to policies and legislation that will stabilize the lives of 11 million Americans-in-waiting and put them on the road to full citizenship.

American Immigration Council
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

Non-profit educational, charitable organization which promotes the prosperity and cultural richness of our diverse nation through education and advocacy. Through research and policy analysis, litigation and communications, and international exchange, the Council seeks to shape a twenty-first century vision of the American immigrant experience.

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
http://www.aila.org

AILA member attorneys represent U.S. families seeking permanent residence for close family members, as well as U.S. businesses seeking talent from the global marketplace. AILA members also represent foreign students, entertainers, athletes, and asylum seekers, often on a pro bono basis. They provide continuing legal education, information, professional services, and expertise.

Asista
http://www.asistahelp.org

ASISTA's goal is to provide national leadership, advocacy, training, and technical assistance to those working with crime survivors seeking secure immigration status, especially those who have suffered gender-based violence.

Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR)
http://www.bnhr.org

The BNHR’s mission is to organize border communities through human rights education and to mobilize their members to ignite change in policy and practice. The BNHR has three ongoing campaigns -Comprehensive immigration reform; Accountable and responsible border policy; and Protection and Promotion of civil and human rights.

Bridging Refugee Youth & Children’s Services (BRYCS)
http://www.brycs.org

BRYCS strengthens the capacity of refugee-serving and mainstream organizations across the U.S. to ensure the successful development of refugee children, youth, and their families by increasing information sharing and promoting collaboration at the local, state, regional, and national levels.

Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
https://cliniclegal.org

CLINIC Promotes the dignity and protects the rights of immigrants in partnership with a dedicated network of Catholic and community legal immigration programs.

CitizenshipWorks
https://www.citizenshipworks.org

Provides online, interactive resources to help individuals apply for naturalization.

Commission on Immigration
American Bar Association
https://www.immigrationadvocates.org

Directs the ABA's efforts to ensure fair treatment and full due process rights for immigrants and refugees within the United States. Pro bono programs operated by the Commission include Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ), the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), the Immigration Justice Project (IJP) of San Diego, the Detention Standards Implementation Initiative (DSII), and the The Fight Notario Fraud (FNF) Project.

Connecting Our World
http://www.connectingourworld.org

Connecting our World, sponsored by NAFSA, is a community of individuals raising their voices in support of international education and more globally engaged and welcoming United States. We advocate for policies that foster a more peaceful world, result in a commonsense immigration process, encourage enlightened global engagement, and sustain an informed civic culture through international education.

Hope Border Institute (HBI)
http://hopeborder.org

Hope Border Institute (HBI) is an independent grassroots community organization working in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez-Las Cruces region, that seeks to bring the perspective of Catholic social teaching to bear on the social realities unique to our region. Through a robust program of research, reflection, leadership development, advocacy and action, HBI develops and aligns the border’s community leaders and organizations engaged in the work of justice from across the Mexico-US border to deepen solidarity across borders and transform our region.

Immi
https://www.immi.org/

Immi helps immigrants in the U.S. understand their legal options. Our online screening tool, legal information, and referrals to nonprofit legal services organizations are always free to use. Immi was created by the Immigration Advocates Network and Pro Bono Net, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to increasing access to justice for low-income immigrants.

Immigrant Legal Defense Project (ILD)
National Immigrant Justice Center
http://www.immigrantjustice.org/programs/immigrant-legal-defense-project

The National Immigrant Justice Center's Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD) project responds to the urgent need of immigrant families. The project offers a wide range of low-cost and free legal services to low-income immigrants in jurisdiction of the Chicago immigration court.

Immigrants' Rights Project
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights

Works to ensure that the U.S. government complies with universal human rights principles in addition to the U.S. Constitution. The Program uses human rights strategies to complement existing ACLU advocacy.

Immigration Advocates Network (IAN)
https://www.immigrationadvocates.org

IAN is a collaborative effort of leading immigrants' rights organizations designed to increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them. IAN provides immigration advocates and organizations free, easily accessible and comprehensive online resources and tools.

Immigration Direct
https://www.immigrationdirect.com

An on-line, easy-to-use, plain English, do-it-yourself service which allows users to prepare and complete their U.S. immigration applications. It is not affiliated with the U.S. government nor is it a law firm.

Immigration Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
https://www.ilrc.org

The Immigrant Legal Resource Center is a national nonprofit resource center that provides immigration legal trainings, technical assistance, and educational materials; and engages in advocacy and immigrant civic engagement to advance immigrant rights.

ImmigrationLawHelp.org
https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org

ImmigrationLawHelp.org is a searchable online directory of over 1,000 free or low-cost nonprofit immigration legal services providers in all 50 states. Only nonprofits that are BIA recognized or have attorneys on staff are included in the directory. Users can search ImmigrationLawHelp.org by state, zip code, or detention facility. Users can also refine their search by types and areas of legal assistance provided, populations served, languages spoken, other areas of legal assistance, and non-legal services provided.

Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC)
http://www.interfaithimmigration.org

IIC is a faith-based organization of various denominations who work together towards enacting fair and humane immigration policies. The organization seeks to educate faith communities on the immigration issue and to advocate toward just legislation.

Justice for Immigrants (JFI)
http://justiceforimmigrants.org

This resource comes from United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and its purpose is to educate and inform Catholics about Church teaching on migration and immigrants. JFI also serves to create a political will toward positive legislation for immigrants and immigration policy.

Kino Border Initiative (KBI)
https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org

The Kino Border Initiative is an outreach program run by the Jesuits. Through its vision and outreach, KBI seeks to promote U.S./Mexico border immigration policies that affirm the dignity of all persons, especially our immigrant brothers and sisters who cross the desert. KBI provides humanitarian assistance and accompaniment to migrants as well as social and pastoral education to communities on both sides of the border.

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service (LIRS)
http://lirs.org

LIRS works with migrants and refugees, U.S. Lutherans, and many partners in service and justice to accomplish our mission. Refugees are resettled through a network of 28 local organizations in 26 states, most of which are Lutheran social ministry organizations. Sixteen of those organizations also provide immigration legal services. Asylum seekers, survivors of torture and other migrants impacted by detention are served through 23 partners providing legal and social services including visitation ministry. In addition, we work directly with eight foster care programs at the state level to provide family reunification and foster care services for unaccompanied refugee and immigrant minors.

Migration and Refugee Services
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-and-refugee-services/

Committee which carries out the commitment of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to serve and advocate for refugees, asylees, and other forced migrants, immigrants, and other people on the move.

Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
http://www.migrationpolicy.org

Provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.

NAFSA: Association of International Educators
http://nafsa.org

Nation's leading policy voice for international education and exchange.

National Immigration Law Center (NILC)
https://www.nilc.org

Offers educational materials to address issues of concern to low-income immigrants. Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants.

New Americans Campaign, The
http://www.newamericanscampaign.org

The New Americans Campaign is a groundbreaking, nonpartisan national network of legal-service providers, faith-based organizations, businesses, foundations and community leaders that is paving a better road to citizenship. We are modernizing and streamlining access to naturalization services, so that greater numbers of lawfully qualified permanent residents take the critical step to becoming American citizens. We are currently driving a national, nonpartisan citizenship campaign throughout the country, focused on major cities with large numbers of citizenship-eligible residents.

Pro Bono Net
http://www.probono.net

This site provides resources for pro bono and legal services attorneys and others working to assist low income or disadvantaged clients. Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit, founded in 1999, dedicated to increasing access to justice for the disadvantaged. Through innovative technology solutions and expertise in building and mobilizing justice networks, Pro Bono Net transforms the way legal help reaches those in need.

Tucson Samaritans
http://www.tucsonsamaritans.org

Samaritans (formerly Samaritan Patrol) is an interfaith organization composed of people of faith who provide a compassionate and healing presence in the desert through humanitarian aid. They provide emergency medical assistance to migrants who cross the desert along the U.S./Mexico border. Samaritans is a mission of Southside Presbyterian Church.

Unaccompanied Children Resource Center
https://www.uacresources.org

Provides training manuals, webinars and practice advisories to help nonprofit legal staff and pro bono attorneys represent children in proceedings. Also offers basic legal information on immigration law and procedure for the families and guardians of unaccompanied children. The site was launched in 2015 in response to the influx of unaccompanied immigrant children seeking refuge in the United States.

United We Dream
http://unitedwedream.org

United We Dream (previously known as Own the DREAM) is the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation. Our powerful nonpartisan network is made up of over 100,000 immigrant youth and allies and 55 affiliate organizations in 26 states. We organize and advocate for the dignity and fair treatment of immigrant youth and families, regardless of immigration status.

There are more than 1.8 million immigrants in the U.S. (as of January 2017) who are college-educated but are unemployed or significantly underemployed. In their home countries they were engineers, doctors, scientists, accountants, and nonprofit professionals. In the U.S. they become cashiers, nannies, and cab drivers, if employed at all. To solve this problem Upwardly Global creates employer partnerships that benefit from access to this talent pool. We also provide customized training and support for these new Americans to give them an equal opportunity to find and secure skill appropriate opportunities and achieve their full economic potential in the U.S.

Welcoming America
https://www.welcomingamerica.org

A national, grassroots-driven collaborative that works to promote mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and U.S.-born Americans. The ultimate goal of Welcoming America is to create a welcoming atmosphere – community by community – in which immigrants are more likely to integrate into the social fabric of their adopted hometowns. Provides resources.

 

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