Off-Site Processing of Naturalization Examinations
by ILRC Staff Attorneys, 1996
Profile of Organizing Efforts of Proyecto Campesino
This report is an introductory narrative of how Proyecto Campesino and O.L.A. Raza conduct community organizing, rural leadership development, and civic participation campaigns using radio programs, naturalization assistance, citizenship classes, and civic action leagues comprised of immigrant membership. Farmworker organizations can duplicate and adapt some of the information and organizing techniques in their own communities that these two dynamic organizations have been using for years.
Anti-Fraud Assistance
ILRC Technical Assistance
Beyond Traditional Lawyering
To read the monograph detailing the ILRC's work on social change lawyering, please download the following file:
Document Gathering for Self-Petitioning Under the Violence Against Women Act: A Step-by-Step Guide
This guide is designed to walk you through the document-gathering requirements under the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and its more recent revisions and updates. Though not a comprehensive explanation of the law or its requirements, it is instead a user-friendly resource to gathering the necesary documents for a VAWA self-petition.
Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts
Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts, Updated July 2010 (PDF, 2010) This is a national benchbook for juvenile and family court judges on various immigration related issues including: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, adoption, VAWA, U Visas, divorce, child custody, immigration consequences of delinquency and crime, and immigration enforcement.
Model Code of Responsibility of BIA-Accredited Representatives
This model code was written as a collaboration between our staff and accredited representatives around the country. It was inspired, in part, by the complaint heard occasionally (mostly from attorneys) that, while attorneys have a code of ethics to which they are bound, accredited representatives have no such code.
Immigration Criminal Law Resources for California Criminal Defenders
A description of critical resources available for California criminal defenders defending noncitizens:
Practice Advisory by Katherine Brady on the Supreme Court Case Nijhawan v. Holder
Practice advisory by Katherine Brady on the Supreme Court case Nijhawan v. Holder, which deals with the categorical approach and aggravated felonies.
Policy Platform for Immigration Justice
In ILRC’s A Platform for Immigrant Justice: Executive Action the Biden Administration Must Enact we outline bold, urgent and necessary policy solutions the Biden administration must enact to ensure immigration benefits are more equitable and accessible and that the work of dismantling the oppressive systems of enforcement, detention and surveillance begins.
Letter to USCIS on Policy Manual Changes to Physical Presence Requirement for Asylee/Refugee Adjustment
On February 2, 2023, USCIS announced changes to the Policy Manual guidance on the one-year physical presence requirement for asylee/refugee adjustment. In a comment letter on February 16, 2023, ILRC commended USCIS on the changes. We believe they will increase fair and consistent adjudications for asylees and refugees seeking adjustment.
ILRC Comments on SB 602
ILRC comments on Texas House Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety Testimony on SB 602.
Trump’s Day 1 Executive Orders: Focus on Criminalization and Detention
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump issued more than a dozen Executive Orders (EOs) that seek to sow fear in immigrant communities. These orders seek to militarize our borders and immigration enforcement more broadly, massively expand the existing deportation and detention machinery, punish organizations that care for immigrants as well as local governments that prioritize protecting their residents, and misinterpret the U.S. Constitution and immigration laws. They attempt to do everything from effectively ending asylum and birthright citizenship to teeing up immigration bans and expansive
Winter Newsletter 2025
Our 2025 winter edition of the newsletter. In this issue: In this issue: Message from the ILRC, Red Cards: Protecting Immigrants Since 2006, Texas Updates from Laredo & Houston, 2025 Burton Awards: Celebrating Together.