SEARAC Deportation Resource Guide
Cambodia MOU 2002
Vietnam MOU 2008

LEGAL RESOURCES & HELPFUL LINKS

PAIR MANUALS

Representing Asylum Seekers Pro Bono Attorney Training Manual

Self-Help Manual for Immigration Detainees

Getting Out of Detention After a Deportation Order

Pro Se Asylum Manual

Pro Se Refugee Manual

Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) Manual

ASYLUM:

DACA Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals:

The Obama Administration, on June 15, 2012, announced it will grant “deferred action” for two years to anyone who came to the U.S. before age 16 and is now 30 or younger, if he or she has lived here for 5 years, is a student or has earned a high school degree or GED or served in the military, and poses no threat to public safety or national security.

DETENTION & DEPORTATION:

Resources for Detainees in Immigration Detention (University of Miami)

  • Deportation 101 Manual in Spanish and English, providing basics on detention and deportation and community organizing in response to deportation, available for download
  • Immigration Worksite Enforcement and Raids compiled by the Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Suffolk University Law School and sponsored by AILF, MIRA, AILA New England
  • “Know Your Rights When Encountering Law Enforcement“, prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union. Also available in Spanish, Arabic, Urdu, French, Farsi, Punjabi, Hindi and Somali on the ACLU web page here.
  • Know Your Rights: What to Do if Stopped by Immigration prepared by PAIR Project, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Migrant Network Coalition of Lexington, Kentucky, and National Immigration Law Center

Prosecutorial Discretion: The Administration announced a deportation policy, on August 18, 2011, that gives lower priority to certain people, such as veterans, minors, the elderly, people in the U.S. since childhood, people with serious disabilities or health issues, victims of certain crimes and others. Read about seeking prosecutorial discretion for your clients here.

EOIR FORMS

PLEASE VISIT THE FORMS PAGE OF EOIR. 


USCIS FORMS

FOR USCIS FORMS, PLEASE VISIT THE FORMS PAGE AT USCIS. 

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCES

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
EOIR – Seattle
EOIR Forms
EOIR Virtual Law Library
EOIR Virtual Law Library – Board of Immigration Appeals Decisions
European Court of Human Rights
Federal Register – 1994 forward
FindLaw – Search federal case law, international law
Immigration Detention Facilities – under ICE Office of Detention and Removal
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
International Court of Justice
Library of Congress – Country Studies
Library of Congress – Portals to the World
National Archives and Records Administration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
USCIS Asylum Officer Training Manual
U.S. Code, Title 8 – Aliens and Nationality
U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Social Security Administration
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) – Federal legislation and regulations

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

allAfrica.com – Africa News
Alternative Chance/ Chans Alternativ – info for Haitian deportees
American Bar Association – Commission on Immigration
American Civil Liberties Union – Immigrants’ Rights Project
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
American Immigration Council Formerly American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF)
American Immigration Council Legal Action Center
Amnesty International
asylumlaw.org
Border Stories – a mosaic documentary
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Center for World Indigenous Studies – Virtual Library
Defending Immigrants Partnership
Derechos Human Rights
Detention Watch Network
Georgetown University Law Center – Asylum Case Research Guide
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
Immigration Advocates Network
Immigration Equality
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
International Conflict Research (INCORE): Conflict Data Service
International Crisis Group
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Invisible Children
National Geographic Map Machine Online Atlas
National Immigration Project
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
OneWorld.net – Portal for news from human rights organizations
Partners in Health
Physicians for Human Rights
Project Diana at Yale Law School: Online Human Rights Archive
ReliefWeb
Reporters Sans Frontieres
Rights & Democracy
Tufts University Fletcher School – Human Rights Law resources
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – IRIN humanitarian news and analysis
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
University of California Berkeley – Human Rights Resources
University of California Hastings – Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
University of Michigan Law School – Refugee Caselaw Site
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
University of Oxford – Forced Migration Online
Washington Office on Latin America
Women’s Human Rights Net
WorldAtlas.com
World Organisation Against Torture