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A great new resource for citizenship applicants/advocates Immigration Advocates Network and Immigration Legal Resource Center have put together a new website, CitizenshipWorks, to help immigrants and advocates navigate the citizenship process. The materials on the site are free, they offer definitive legal information, and they walk the user through it all step-by-step, in many cases with audio-narration. Unfortunately, [...]
Already more than 100 years old with no one left to care for her, and with the Iraq war raging in her country, Warina Zaya Bashou had to get out. With the help of family and friends, Bashou was able to escape the conflict, arriving safely into the embrace of her family in Michigan after [...]
ProLiteracy has made its citizenship collection available once more through the ProLiteracy Education Network at http://www.proliteracyednet.org/articles.asp?mcid=2&cid=36&rid=501 Formerly part of the “Thinkfinity Literacy Network,” this free online collection contains: self-paced teacher training courses lesson material downloads podcasts for teachers fact sheet/information downloads interactive activities for students and coming soon: a collection of tools for citizenship program development [...]
USCIS is announcing that a new study on citizenship test pass rates has found that 95.8 percent of applicants passed the test during fiscal year 2010, the first full year during which the redesigned test was administered. There’s good news: “Pass rates of applicants taking the new test were found to be significantly higher than the pass [...]
“Creating A Citizenship Preparation Program” CLINIC has designed a very comprehensive new program development ”Toolkit” for legal provider groups who want to add citizenship application assistance and test prep instruction to their services. Adult education providers will find a lot of useful information here, too. The link is here: http://cliniclegal.org/resources/comprehensive-citizenship-preparation-program-toolkit Below is the table of contents: [...]
Offered in San Jose by ILRC and CLINIC If you happen to live in the San Jose CA area, this looks like a terrific opportunity: A FREE TWO-DAY TRAINING ON NATURALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP Sponsored by: CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING (CET) CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER (ILRC) CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK, [...]
Interesting new policy brief from the National Foundation for American Policy The National Foundation for American Policy has just put out a policy brief “Reforming the Naturalization Process” with research made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It includes a number of interesting recommendations on reforming the naturalization process to make [...]
In the last three years, more than one million people were deported by the Obama administration. This year alone, there were 368,920 removals. While President Obama promised immigration reform before being elected, the irony of deporting more immigrants than the past administration becomes really alarming. Tears fell on a mother’s face as her son was [...]
Microloan product ease attaining citizenship for legal immigrants in US Microfinance Focus, November 23, 2011: A microloan product, launched by Citi Community Development and CASA de Maryland (CASA), a grassroots organization working with immigrants, ease pathway to citizenship for legal immigrants in the state of Maryland in United States. The citizenship microloan program will lower the [...]
Citizenship test preparation classes and quality legal services go hand in hand in assisting an immigrant along the path to citizenship. As programs seek better ways to serve the foreign born as they prepare to naturalize, CLINIC offers this webinar as a tool to use when developing an in-house citizenship program with legal and educational [...]