Immigration Guides
We’ve collected links to resources for common issues facing immigrants, including employment obstacles and violation of legal rights.
Asylum
- Asylum-Related Information (by: Immigration Equality) Includes information on seeking asylum, what to do if you've won asylum, and withholding and removal and the Convention Against Torture
- RDJ Refugee Shelter The RDJ Refugee Center provides asylum seekers and refugees with a six month stay while they seek work authorization and asylum
Criminal / Police Encounters
- Know Your Rights (by: National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild)
- "Don't Get ICED!" – A guide to protecting immigrants from deportation after an arrest (by: Center for Urban Pedagogy)
- Know Your Rights: Anti-Muslim Discrimination (by: ACLU) Also available in Arabic and Urd
- Know Your Rights: Stopped by Police, Immigration Agents, or FBI (by: ACLU) Also available in Arabic, Farsi, Somali, and Urdu
Families & Couples
Employment
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Guides
- Are you worried that you or your family is at risk of a home raid by ICE? Be prepared! (by: Make The Road New York)
- ¡Entérate tus derechos! ¿Quién está en riesgo de ser arrestado por el ICE? (by: Immigrant Defense Project)
- Know Your Rights: If ICE Shows Up At Your Door (by: ACLU) Also available in Spanish
Other
- Immigrant Tenant Rights (by: Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman) also available in Spanish