Living in the United States: A Guide for Immigrant Youth
This guide is a compilation of resources for immigrant youth living in the United States. It includes general descriptions of immigration relief as well as general advice on applying for benefits, driver’s licenses, financial aid for colleges, bank accounts and credit cards, filing taxes, registering for the national service and military service, and more.
Citizenship Flyer for Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder) Children of Potential DAPA Applicants (English & Spanish)
This document is an outreach flyer that can be given to potentially eligible DAPA applicants who are the parent of a Lawful Permanent Resident (“Green Card holder” or “LPR”) or to the LPR child, directly, that explains basic eligibility requirements for naturalization and the benefits of naturalizing.
Preparing for Deferred Action: Dividers to Help Organize Documents for Potential DAPA Applicants (English & Spanish)
This document provides dividers to help potentially eligible DAPA applicants organize their documents according to the DAPA eligibility criteria.
Preparing for Deferred Action: List of Addresses (English & Spanish)
This document is intended to help potentially eligible deferred action applicants document all their addresses since moving to the United States.
Preparing for Deferred Action: List of Absences from the United States (English & Spanish)
This document is meant to be given to potentially eligible deferred action applicants to document their absences from the United States to help legal services providers evaluate their eligibility for DAPA and DACA.
Screening Form for DACA Applicants
This form screens for DACA eligibility and other immigration relief. It can be used by non-immigration attorney volunteers because it highlights the areas that need to be referred to an experienced immigration attorney or BIA-accredited representative.
Change of Address for DACA Recipients / Cambio de dirección de beneficiarios de acción diferida
This new resource provides step by step instructions on how to notify USCIS that your address has changed. This is important so that receipt notices, reminders, and other documents are sent to the correct address. (English and Spanish)
Collecting Evidence for DACA
This is a checklist to help you gather all necessary documentation to apply for DACA.
DACA Application Sample Cover Letter
This is a sample cover letter that can be used when submitting a DACA application. This is a sample cover letter that can be used when submitting a DACA application.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Primer: How to Seek SIJS Findings in California Superior Courts
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status is a unique, hybrid form of immigration relief that requires the involvement of state courts before a child is eligible to apply for a special immigrant juvenile visa with U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. This guide includes an overview of the process of requesting SIJS findings in different types of state courts in California, providing answers to common questions about this process as well as practice pointers for different types of proceedings in California.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Role-Play: Responding to Common Questions in State Court Proceedings
Advocates may find that some state court judges are unfamiliar with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), or uncomfortable with their role in helping an individual access a form of federal immigration relief. This resource is intended to help advocates address the concerns of state courts with respect to Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions.
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: A Primer for One-Parent Cases
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) cases, involving a claim of abuse, abandonment or neglect against one parent while the child resides with the non-offending parent, are commonly referred to as one-parent cases. These cases, though permissible under the plain language of the statute as well as federal agency interpretation, have proved challenging particularly at the state court phase of the application process and at times before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that adjudicates SIJS petitions. This advisory is intended to be a primer for practitioners to
AB 60 Resources - Updated 4/29/2015
The first handout, "AB 60 California Driver’s License: Frequently Asked Questions," is aimed at immigration attorneys and provides an overview of frequently asked questions regarding AB 60 licenses, including some common red flags. The second handout, "Preguntas Acerca de la AB 60," is aimed at community members and written in Spanish. It provides answers to common questions such as whether it is safe to apply for an AB 60 license depending on prior criminal or immigration history.
Preguntas y Respuestas Sobre las Licencias de Manejar Para Inmigrantes Bajo la Ley AB 60
Obtenga aquí las respuestas a las preguntas más comunes sobre este nuevo programa para obtener una licencia de manejar en California.
Crimes-Related Bars to DAPA & DACA
This is an annotated chart that provides quick access to the differing crimes bars to DAPA and DACA.
FAQs on Immigration Authority of Local Law Enforcement
This FAQ explains questions of legal authority for local law enforcement agencies to be involved in immigration enforcement. Specifically, the document reviews recent court decisions and examines how the law is evolving in regard to ICE detainers, administrative immigration warrants, and other immigration enforcement mechanisms that local law enforcement may encounter. The FAQ clarifies that even if there is probable cause to believe that a person is unlawfully present, this is not a basis to arrest, because local law enforcement officers do not have authority to enforce civil immigration
DACA/DAPA Flyers
These flyers are for community members and can be used to screen people into eligibility, give information about the possible benefits and provide ideas for what people can do now to prepare.
Overview of Administrative Relief for Community Members
This document provides an overview of administrative relief for community members.
Summary of Administrative Relief
This Fact Sheet focuses on the expansion of deferred action, memorialized in a Memorandum by Jeh Johnson "Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children and with Respect to Certain Individuals Whose Parents are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents."
SB 873: How California’s New Law Benefits Unaccompanied Minors
SB 873 appropriates $3M to provide legal representation for Unaccompanied Minors in removal proceedings. The law also eliminates any ambiguity that California Superior Courts, including family courts, have jurisdiction to make the findings necessary for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (“SIJS”). This fact sheet outlines how the law benefits Unaccompanied Minors, including practice tips for how advocates can leverage the law to improve practice in state court for SIJS petitions.
Anti-Fraud Flyers
At the ILRC, we believe in educating and thereby empowering immigrants. Immigrants are too often unaware that they have rights as consumers under California law, and that non-attorney immigration providers, defined as "immigration consultants," must meet strict requirements in order to operate legally in California. [Information on getting Anti-fraud Assistance].