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America's Voice -
Seeking reforms that will transform a dysfunctional immigration system into a regulatory system that works.
American Immigration Center - Information kits, books, forms and products for U.S. immigration, U.S. work and temporary visas, citizenship, green cards, and green card lottery services.
American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF) - Dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the value of immigration to American society; to promoting public service and excellence in the practice of immigration law; and to advancing fundamental fairness and due process under the law for immigrants.
Border Angels - Founded by Enrique Morones in 1986, Border Angels is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border.
Building Democracy Initiative - Counters organized racism, anti-immigrant activity, and other forms of bigotry through strategic research, community organizing, education and training around the globe.
Canadian Council for Refugees -
A non-profit umbrella organization committed to the rights and protection of refugees in Canada and around the world and to the settlement of refugees and immigrants in Canada.
Center for Immigrant Families - Engages immigrant women of color in a process of collective reflection, community building, personal and social transformation, and organizing for change.
Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) - A non-profit immigration and human rights organization serving Los Angeles by working to protect the civil rights of immigrants, increase understanding between the native born and newcomer communities, and raise awareness of the interaction of human rights disasters and immigration.
Chinese Immigrants Eary Arrivals to San Francisco and Hawaii: Case Files - Hundreds of thousands of people passed through immigration stations in San Francisco and Honolulu between 1882 and 1955. Nearly 250,000 of them are the subject of federal reports and records, including immigration investigation case files of people who tried to immigrate - some successfully, some not - during the period of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1882-1943.
Consular Notification and Access for Arrested Foreign Nationals - Instructions and guidance relating to the arrest and detention of foreign nationals, deaths of foreign nationals, the appointment of guardians for minors or incompetent adults who are foreign nationals, and related issues pertaining to the provision of consular services to foreign nationals in the United States.
Dale Farm - Dale Farm, in Crays Hill, Essex, was the UK’s largest Travellers’ community, consisting of nearly a hundred separate properties, lying well outside the village and made up of extended family plots or yards. It was a scrapyard before it was purchased by Travellers as a site to build their homes. On October 19, 2011, Basildon council bailiffs began the eviction of Travellers from the Dale Farm site.
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December18 - Portal for the promotion of the rights of migrants worldwide.
Diversity Visa Lottery Program - Each year, 50,000 immigrant visas are made available through a lottery to people who come from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. None of these visas are available for people who come from countries that have sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States in the past five years. The State Department's National Visa Center holds the lottery every year, and chooses winners randomly from all qualified entries.
Documenting the Southeast Asian Refugee Experience - Documents the resettlement experiences of refugees and immigrants from the former Indochina, with a special focus on materials pertaining to the large communities established in California.
EducationUSA: Site for Foreign Students - Assists international students with finding, applying, and preparing for study at an accredited U.S. college or university.
Electronic Immigration Network (EIN) - A voluntary sector organisation specialising in the provision of information on immigration and refugee law via the Internet, particularly in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Ellis Island Passenger Search - Explore the collection of immigrant arrival records stored in the Ellis Island Archives. More than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Information about each person was written down in ships' passenger lists, known as "manifests."
EmbassyWorld.com - Directory and search engine of the world's embassies and consulates.
Enforcement and Removal Operations - A division of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The resources and expertise of ERO are utilized to transport aliens, manage them while in custody and waiting for their cases to be processed, and to remove unauthorized aliens from the United States when ordered. For information on detainees housed at an ICE facility, family members and attorneys should contact one of the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) field offices listed here. ICE personnel will provide the most current information available regarding the location of the detained individual.
Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice - Adjudicates immigration cases involving detained aliens, criminal aliens, and aliens seeking asylum as a form of relief from removal, while ensuring the standards of due process and fair treatment for all parties involved.
Farmworker Justice Fund - Helping to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice.
Forced Migration Online - A comprehensive web site that provides access to a diverse range of relevant information resources on forced migration. It is a technically and intellectually administered resource, combining specialist subject knowledge with high standards of information management.
Golden Door: Immigration Images - The Keystone View Company, Underwood and Underwood, H. C. White Company and other publishers of popular stereoscopic photographs in the early 20th century documented immigration through the most famous point of entry, Ellis Island. These 3D images would have been sold to schools and libraries as well as more wealthy families as educational sets.
Guide to International Refugee Law Resources on the Web - Although the total refugee and asylum-seeking population has dipped since the early 1990s, over 30 million "persons of concern to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees” can still be counted in the world today. Moreover, debates continue regarding the nature of the protection that refugees should be granted, the role of the international community, and the obligations of receiving countries towards refugees. This guide directs readers to some of the key texts and resources available on the Web that can help shed light on, and provide a context for, many of the issues currently being deliberated in the refugee law arena.
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) - Dedicated to promote the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.In partnership with our member organizations, the Coalition educates and organizes immigrant and refugee communities to assert their rights; promotes citizenship and civic participation; monitors, analyzes, and advocates on immigrant-related issues; and, informs the general public about the contributions of immigrants and refugees.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - U.S. agency targeting people, money and materials that support terrorist and criminal networks.
Additionally, in March 2008, ICE announced the initiation of the Secure Communities program. The critical element of the program (now called "Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens") is that, during booking in a jail, arrestees’ fingerprints will be checked against U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases, rather than just against FBI criminal databases. ICE will automatically be notified if the fingerprints match fingerprints in the DHS system. It will then do follow-up interviews and “take appropriate action.”
from the National Immigration Law Center.
Immigration Direct - Prepare your United States Immigration forms like US Citizenship, Green card and Visas online. Assists immigrants through the complex US immigration and USCIS application process.
Major informational sections include:
Immigration Law: An Overview - Federal immigration law determines whether a person is an alien, and associated legal rights, duties, and obligations of aliens in the United states. It also provides means by which certain aliens can become naturalized citizens with full rights of citizenship. Immigration law serves as a gatekeeper for the nation's border: it determines who may enter, how long they may stay and when they must leave. From Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
Immigration Records at NARA - Immigration records, more popularly known as "ship passenger arrival records," may provide evidence of a person's arrival in the United States, as well as foreign birthplace. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has immigration records for various ports for the years 1800-1959.
International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER Bergen) - A multidisciplinary research unit at the University of Bergen. The aim of IMER is to contribute to research-based knowledge about international migration, not least related to European countries, including the consequences of immigration and emigration for societies.
International Organization for Migration (IOM) - A Geneva-based intergovernmental organization dealing with a wide range of aspects related to legal and illegal migration. The website features a number of downloadable reports and studies on human trafficking.
Lopez, Nativo -
Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, a community service and advocacy organization for Mexican and Latin American immigrants throughout the United States.
Migration Information Source - Authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.
Migration Museums Network - Supports the activities of migration museums, institutions, and facilitates and interactions among them, including:
Migration Policy Group - An independent European organisation committed to policy development on migration and mobility, and diversity and anti-discrimination by facilitating the exchange between stakeholders from all sectors of society, with the aim of contributing to innovative and effective responses to the challenges posed by migration and diversity.
Migration Policy Institute (MPI) - MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
Founded in 2001 by Demetrios G. Papademetriou and Kathleen Newland, MPI grew out of the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
See MPI Data Hub's State Responses to Immigration: A Database of All State Legislation.
This database contains all bills and resolutions related to immigrants or immigration that were considered by state legislators across the nation. Also see MPI's Language Portal which gives you hundreds of state and local agency documents used to provide services to Limited English Proficient clients, including contracts, planning reports, and translated material.
Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance (MIRA) - Membership is based on a desire to help improve laws and public policy affecting
immigrants, and working people of color; involves participation in solidarity actions to protect and expand the rights of immigrants; seeks to unite all people of color and with a commitment to social justice by educating the non-immigrant community in Mississippi on immigrant issues, educating immigrant workers of their rights, and uniting human rights advocates in Mississippi on local, statewide, and national immigrants rights agendas.
National Immigration Forum - Dedicated to embracing and upholding America's tradition as a nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates and builds public support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and are fair to and supportive of newcomers to our country.
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) - A partner of Heartland Human Care Services. Dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. NIJC provides direct legal services to and advocates for these populations through policy reform, impact litigation, and public education.
National Immigration Law Center (NILC) - A national support center whose mission is to protect and promote the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members. NILC staff specialize in immigration law, and the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants.
National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) - The role of INED is to study the population of France and the world from all angles. Its research is based upon two complementary objectives: to analyse the components of population growth (fertility, mortality, migration), and to identify the links between demographic trends and the historical, socioeconomic and legal context of the societies concerned.
National Network for Immigration and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) - A national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues.
New Americans, The - PBS Independent Lens television documentary on immigrants and refugees who leave their home and families behind to come to the United States.
New Sanctuary Movement - Working to change the conversation the U.S. is having about immigration. Wants to keep the families together and to stop raids and deportations.
No More Deaths (No Mas Muertes) - No More Deaths volunteers have been working around the clock in Nogales to provide deported migrants with food, water, medical help and information. Border patrol vehicles and buses drop migrants off 24-hours a day - most in need of food and water and many requiring medical attention.
Office of Authentication, U.S. Department of State - Responsible for providing authentication service to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals on all documents that will be used overseas. Types of documents include corporate documents such as company bylaws and articles of incorporation, power of attorney, patent applications and trademarks, diplomas, transcripts, letters relating to degrees, non-marital status, references and job certifications, home studies, deeds of assignments, distributorship agreements, papers for adoption purposes, etc.
Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) - Works to increase immigrant civic and political activism to strengthen democracy and advance social justice. PILA provides training and technical assistance to Bay Area organizations and communities to support grassroots leadership development and movement-building electoral organizing.
Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) - Promotes: respect for the basic social rights (such as the right to health care, the right to shelter, the right to education and training, the right to a minimum subsistence, the right to family life, the right to moral and physical integrity, the right to legal aid, the right to organise and the right to fair labour conditions) of undocumented migrants; regularisation of undocumented migrants; and respect for human rights and humane treatment during the process of involuntary return of undocumented migrants. PICUM is a member of the following global and European NGO networks:
Children’s Rights Action Group - An informal group of NGOs, UN agencies (represented by UNICEF) and EU institutions with the primary interest of exchanging information on children’s rights initiatives at the EU level.
European Anti- Poverty Network - A representative network of NGOs and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in EU member states.
European Platform for Migrant Workers’ Rights - A platform which advocates for a better promotion and protection of the human rights of all migrant workers and members of their families.
Migrants’ Rights International - A federation of migrants’ rights organisations, trade unions and faith-based groups within the various global regions promoting and defending the human rights of migrants. PICUM is a member of the Steering Committe of MRI.
NGO Platform - A network of Brussels-based NGOs working in the field of migration and asylum.
Social Platform - A network which promotes social justice and participatory democracy by voicing the concerns of its member organisations.
Praxis - Aims to help new residents integrate in the UK, both to their benefit and that of their new community. These men and women often come to the UK as economic migrants, with the aim of finding work so that they can send money to their families at home. Praxis helps these people, who frequently arrive alone and with no knowledge of the English language, to cope with the most basic requirements of daily life such as putting a roof over their heads, the means to buy food until they can work and help in finding a job.
Refugee Council - The largest organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees.
RefWorld - Refworld contains a vast collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks. The information has been carefully selected and compiled from UNHCR's global network of field offices, Governments, international, regional and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and judicial bodies.
Rural Migration News (RMN) - RMN summarizes and analyzes the most important migration-related issues affecting immigrant farm workers in California and the United States during the preceding quarter.
San Francisco Sanctuary Ordinance: Administrative Code Chapter 12H: Immigration Status - "No department, agency, commission, officer or employee of the City and County of San Francisco shall use any City funds or resources to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law or to gather or disseminate information regarding the immigration status of individuals in the City and County of San Francisco unless such assistance is required by federal or State statute, regulation or court decision..."
SIREN: Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network - The mission of SIREN is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees in Santa Clara County, California, through direct services, community education, leadership development and policy advocacy.
Stalker's Guide to International Migration - This guide offers a quick overview of the issues surrounding international migration. Some of the material comes from Peter Stalker's first book on migration, 'The Work of Strangers'. More recent information has been extracted from the No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration.
TRAC Immigration - Comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about U.S. federal immigration enforcement.
Statistics on INS immigration enforcement. Data on prosecutions, sentencing, staffing, etc.
Travel.State.Gov (Bureau of Consular Affairs) - Administer laws, formulates regulations and implements policies relating to a broad range of consular services provided to American citizens abroad. Advises and supports embassies and consulates around the world in such matters as deaths, arrests, robberies, citizenship and nationality, federal benefits, notarization of documents, international parental child abduction and international adoptions. Issues Consular Information Sheets, Travel Warnings and Public Announcements concerning conditions in countries where Americans may be planning to visit or reside. Issues passports to U.S. citizens. Major informational sections include:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) - Created in 2003, through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, ICE now has more than 20,000 employees in offices in all 50 states and 48 foreign countries.
In June 2010, ICE issued its strategic plan for Fiscal Years 2010-2014. This comprehensive plan lays out how ICE will most effectively meet its responsibilities for criminal investigation and civil immigration enforcement over the next five years. Moreover, ICE is taking steps to streamline and improve its management structure to give the agency a clearer sense of identity and focus. The full strategic plan is available for download.
U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act - Access the complete text of the United States Immigration and Nationality Act, Title 8 of the U.S. Code (8 USC).
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) - Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly ressolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. UNRWA is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees and its contributions to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees.
US-VISIT at the Department of Homeland Security - Part of a continuum of security measures that begins overseas, when a person applies for a visa to travel to the United States, and continues on through entry and exit at U.S. air and seaports and, eventually, at land border crossings.
Workpermit.com - Provides immigration and visa services for most of the English speaking world and the EU.
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (DHS) - A compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration law enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions, removals, and prosecutions.
In addition to the Yearbook, the Office of Immigration Statistics Annual Flow Reports and Annual Reports provide text, tables, and charts on legal permanent residents, refugees and asylees, nonimmigrant admissions, naturalizations, and enforcement actions.
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