Manuals

“We are excited about the many ways our partners and their communities can support this year’s Immigrant Heritage Month. Please join us on social media today. Share. Like. Snap. Gram. Tweet. Celebrate. Use the toolkit below to get started!”

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County's Immigration Legal Services division produced these Know Your Rights videos to help educate the community. 

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County's Immigration Legal Services division produced these Know Your Rights videos to help educate the community. Learn mo...

How To Be An Ally To Muslim Women & Truly Embrace Intersectional Feminism Spencer Platt/Getty Images News/Getty Images By Noor Al-Sibai 4 hours ago In Donald Trump's America, few groups are as demonized as Muslims — and women worldwide are always oppressed based on their gender.

In California, CASA volunteers, “represent the best interests of the children involved, and consider the best interests of the family.” 2 Therefore these FAQs are written from that perspective, in order to help CASA volunteers in California advocate for children and youth affected by immigration law and policy. If you have a special immigration related question, you can contact attorneys at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) by emailing them at: aod@ilrc.org. Let them know you are a CASA!

President Trump has promised to deport up to 3 million people this year. To do so, ICE typically must detain them first. But with the system already at capacity

Videos that explain the Executive Orders and recent federal court decisions to "normal people."

This information sheet provides important updates to community members about the status of DACA, what steps to take to be informed about their legal options, and summarizes basic constitutional rights of everyone regardless of immigration status.

San Jose's plan for civic, economic, linguistic and social integration 2016-2019.

Training video for Interpreters for SF Asylum Office Interview.

Know your role as interpreter. Your #1 role is to be a communication channel. This means accurately transmitting phrases from one language to another, without changing, adding, or omitting anything.

The purpose of this manual is to assist District Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys and others in prosecuting persons who offer bogus services to immigrants with the promise of obtaining immigration benefits. The manual discusses in detail a California state law, significantly strengthened in 1995, that provides criminal and civil sanctions specifically for violations by immigration consultants.2 This law not only punishes misrepresentation, but provides civil and/or criminal sanctions for failure to perform affirmative duties such as post a $50,000 bond, provide specific written notices, keep copies of client records, etc. A violation of the immigration consultant law is an unlawful business practice for purposes of Bus. & Prof. Code ∋ 17200. Most sections of the law apply to employees of non-profit agencies as well as for-profit consultants.

Educate your clients and your community members about fraudulent immigration service providers and unscrupulous lawyers. Incorporate consumer fraud education into presentations about immigration. Spread the word in the immigrant community about common immigration fraud scams.

As a member organization in a naturalization collaborative, you might well be asking this question.  Here’s why your organization should involve itself in this issue . . .