Resources on Immigration Reform

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Demographic data provides an overview of a community’s population. CLINIC organized specific immigrant data that nonprofits and local government can review to assess the best services, policies and support needed for the foreign-born community, particularly people who can benefit by obtaining legal status in the United States through immigration reform passed by Congress.

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CLINIC's policy brief for USCIS outlines the issues that religious workers, and in turn the American communities they serve, are facing due to the agency's backlogs and other policies. The brief offers concrete steps that USCIS can take immediately to reduce the harm to essential religious workers.

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This short report provides a description of how select CLINIC affiliates conducted immigration legal screenings of undocumented persons to identify if any were eligible for a permanent immigration benefit and which ones.  This report is a good tool for nonprofits to use to inform staff and funders of the importance of legal screening.

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This document can help undocumented individuals determine whether they might qualify for some sort of immigration relief and whether they are at high risk of being arrested by immigration.

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In recent years, more than 24,000 people from over 100 nations have been granted asylum in the United States. Asylees have often suffered from persecution in their country of origin, forced migration, detention in the United States, and the uncertainty of the asylum adjudication process. Most confront systemic and bureaucratic barriers to resettlement and integration, and need well-coordinated and prompt social services to ease their transition.