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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (English)
Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (Spanish)
This is the Single most authoritative source for immigartion information. If you need assistance navigating this Website please contact a library staff member. To meet with a U.S. Immigration Officer you must schedule an appointment using the online appointment system InfoPass
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Online Case Status Check
U.S. Department of State Includes information on temporary worker visa types, student, business and tourist visas.
Diversity Visa Lottery The congressionally mandated Diversity Immigrant Visa Program makes available up to 55,000 diversity visas (DVs) annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to persons who meet strict eligibility requirements from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States
Photograph and Copying Services PDF
Fingerprints: USCIS Application Support Center 467 Silver Lane, East Hartford
Be alert to Web sites promising government travel or residency documents online or by mail. Except for entering the DV lottery, most applications for visas, passports, green cards, and other travel and residency documents must be completed in person before an officer of the U.S. government.
Be thoughtful about who you send your personal documents to. Unless you have an established relationship with a business, do not mail birth certificates, passports, drivers’ licenses, marriage certificates, Social Security cards, or other documents with your personal identifying information to businesses promising to complete your application for travel or residency documents. These businesses may be engaged in identity theft.
Be skeptical of Web sites posing as U.S. government sites. They may have domain names similar to government agencies, official-looking emblems (eagles, flags, or other American images like the Statue of Liberty or the U.S. Capitol), the official seals or logos of — and links to — other government sites, and list Washington, D.C., mailing addresses. If the domain name doesn’t end in “.gov,” it’s not a government site. Bogus sites may charge for government forms. Don’t pay; government forms and instructions for completing them are available from the issuing U.S. government agency for free.
Proposed Immigration Reform Legislation PDF
Diversity Visa Lottery: Read the Rules, Avoid the Rip-Offs
U.S. Department of State
Finding Legal Advice
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Listing of Recognized Organizations and Representatives by State PDF
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (insert link www.uscis.gov) provides a number of humanitarian programs and protection to assist individuals in need of shelter or aid from disasters, oppression, emergency medical issues and other urgent circumstances. Humanitarian benefits offered, include: Refugee Status or Asylum; Battered Spouse, Children and Parents; Victims of Human Trafficking and Other Crimes; Humanitarian Parole; Temporary Protected Status; Special Situation
Center for Applied Linguistics
The State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM)
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement
American Civil Liberties Union (212) 549-2500 (860) 247-9823
Casa de Maryland
Center for Community Change
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Hartford Area Rally Together
Justice for Immigrants
MIRA Home Page
Persons who are undocumented begin acquiring “unlawful presence” on the day they are first in the United States in an undocumented status (the day they cross the border or the day they overstay their visa). Persons who are known to be undocumented more than 180 days will not be allowed to return to the United States legally for three years, once they leave or are deported. Persons who are known to be undocumented more than one year will not be allowed to return to the United States legally for ten years, once they leave or are deported. There is a waiver of these bars to admission that a few people are able to get if they can show that their U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse or parent would suffer extreme hardship if they were not granted a waiver. Persons who have been known to be undocumented more than one year after April 1, 1997, who then leave the country and then reenter illegally, can be permanently barred from the United States
Registry is a section of immigration law that enables certain individuals who have been present in the U.S. Since January 1, 1972 the ability to apply for a green card (permanent residency,) even if they are currently in the U.S. unlawfully.
Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIRUS
Grant Makers Concerned with Immigration and Refugees GCIR
Immigration in Connecticut: A Report
Immigration Explorer Interactive Map: 1880-2000
Urban Institute
Migrant Information Source
National Immigration Law Center
Rand Immigration Statistics
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
A web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documenting voluntary immigration to the US.
Living Voices
The New Americans
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