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This manual provides guidance on gathering necessary documents for VAWA self petition.

This fact sheet provides legal information to immigrants who identify as LGBT and immigrants who are HIV-positive.

Available in eight languages, this brochure presents information on domestic violence, and on actions immigrant and refugee women survivors can take to protect themselves. The brochure also answers questions related to survivorsÍ immigration and public assistance eligibility

This document provides a framework to help organizations develop a Language Assistance Plan.

This document provides information about public benefits and how receiving them may or may not affect immigration status or immigrant's ability to travel outside the U.S.

This document provides an overview of immigrants eligibility for the various federal public assistance programs.

The article concludes with recommendations for research, training, and legislation that may increase safe outcomes for battered mothers and their children.

This paper provides information and strategies for applying for U visa application waivers.

This paper describes the requirements for U visas and emphasizes the need for practitioners to establish a good working relationship with law enforcement officers and help build trust between immigrant survivors of domestic violence and the law enforcement system. The article provides strategies for collaborating with local law enforcement.

This fact sheet draws from various studies to show the prevalence of domestic violence in immigrant communities. The fact sheet also presents information about the cultural, legal, and economic barriers that cause difficulties for immigrant women in escaping abuse.

The Women's Commission urges the INS to revise policies for asylum seekers, ensure oversight of detention conditions, and discipline offending officers.

The AI report includes findings on rape as a political weapon, the role of discrimination and poverty, and the state's response. This report ends with a number of recommendations to the Haitian authorities and the international community designed to ensure that the protections set out in international law become a reality for all Haitian girls.

These slides include information on the immigration status and the barriers to services for immigrant survivors and how to address these barriers and fears.

This fact sheet offers some statistics about immigration and domestic violence, and describes some of the financial, cultural, and linguistic barriers that may deter immigrant women from seeking services.

Using first-hand accounts of 13 women, LCHR shows that after managing to escape egregious human rights violations in their respective countries (i.e., sexual violence, forced abortion), these women have been, "detained, deported summarily, or otherwise treated unfairly."

Downing and Roat discuss the importance of language proficiency, interpretation skills, and cultural competence when serving non-English speakers.

This report is designed to help service providers, researchers, and members of the media understand the dynamics of trafficking and adopt ethical interviewing practices with trafficking victims. The report offers guidelines to readers for assessing risks to trafficking victims, protecting victims' safety and confidentiality, selecting effective translators, and responding effectively to victims who need help.

It examines a set of concerns facing women migrant workers.

It also addresses the needs of survivors and offers strategies for prevention for immigrant and refugee communities.

The author outlines the definition, requirements, and application process for U Visa Interim relief and also offers information on obtaining permanent residency and derivative status for family members.

Building Community Strength: A Report About Community-Based Organizations Serving South Asians in the United States by Takoma Park, South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow (SAALT) (2007)

SAALT embarked on a needs assessment to best identify the scope of services offered by and infrastructural challenges faced by organizations serving low-to-moderate- income South Asians living in the United States.

This toolkit for grantmakers draws on extensive research and interviews with hundreds of foundation, community, business, and government leaders. It incorporates academic research as well as policy and community-based concerns into a resource that also can inform the work of practitioners in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors.

In July of 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau released disaggregated socio-demographic information for more than sixteen different Asian American and five Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) groups. This report examines these data and focuses on the following six socioeconomic indicators influencing health status: Language, Income and Poverty, Educational Attainment, Immigration and Citizenship, Health Workforce, and Other Household Indicators.

Violence and deprivation associated with trafficking (i.e., physical violence, sexual violence, confinement, lack of access to health care) often have profound impacts on trafficked women's physical and psychological health. Drawing upon a two-year international study, this report explores health risks, health consequences, and barriers to services encountered by trafficked women. Additionally, Zimmerman discusses findings on trafficked women's access to health care, as well as service provider intervention efforts.

This checklist provides guidelines and evaluation for medical interpreters.