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• ActionNYC hotline at (800) 354-0365 to receive free, safe immigration help in your community from ActionNYC.
• A Resource Guide for Immigrant New Yorkers. NYC Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. La versión en español está disponible aquí.
• Access to City and State Identification: IDNYC, New York City’s free photo identification card, is available to all New Yorkers ages 10 and up. IDNYC applicants’ information is confidential. Immigration status does not matter. Learn more about the many benefits, services, and discounts available to IDNYC cardholders or call 311 and say “IDNYC” for more information and to make an appointment to enroll.
• Insurance & Care Services Guide for Immigrants in NYC. NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs.
• Legal Resources. NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs.
• Make the Road New York Health Services including but not limited to: Insurance Enrollment Assistance, Health Care Navigation & Access, TGNCIQ (transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex, and queer) Health Advocacy, Medical Debt Reduction Assistance, Nutrition Support and Food Pantry, Peer Health Coaching & Illness Management, Referrals for Rapid HIV Testing, and SNAP (Food Benefit) Enrollment Assistance
• NY Immigration Coalition’s Raising New York is a diverse statewide coalition of parent, early childhood, education, civil rights, business, and health organizations dedicated to increasing the number of children who are on track for school readiness, with a focus on improving long-term outcomes for children who are low-income, children of color, and other under-served groups.
• Services for Recently Arrived Immigrants and Refugees: Resource and Referral Guide. NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs.
• We Speak NYC, an Emmy Award-winning television show created to help immigrant New Yorkers practice English while informing them of the city’s resources. English language proficiency is an important factor in determining accessibility to educational, employment, health, and social services.

• Workers’ Rights Resources. National Immigration Law Center. This webpage from the is dedicated to workers’ rights and provides know-your-rights trainings, policy analysis, and response toolkits on a number of issues including worksite immigration enforcement, workers’ rights, Social Security numbers, employment eligibility verification, discrimination, and electronic employment eligibility verification.
• Immigrant and Employee Rights Section. The United States Department of Justice. The Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) under the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department enforces the anti-discrimination provisions that protect U.S. citizens and certain other work-authorized individuals from employment discrimination based upon citizenship or immigration status. The IER webpage provides an overview of workers’ rights, allows workers to file charges, and includes a number of webinars on employee rights.
• Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Rights. American Civil Liberties Union. Visitors to this page can learn how to respond to various scenarios such as what to do when law enforcement asks about immigration status and how to challenge a deportation order after an arrest.
• American Immigration Council. This organization’s website offers resources ranging from fact sheets on asylum in the United States to pages for each state’s immigration data.
• Medical Assistance Programs for Immigrants in Various States. National Immigration Law Center. NILC provides a downloadable table that describes state policies for providing health coverage.
• About Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). United States Citizen and Immigration Services. This page provides information on requesting consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA).

• State Department’s description of Child Citizenship Act of 2000. U.S Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs.
• Latest on Adoptee Citizenship Provisions for Intercountry Adoptees. Adoptee Law Center. 2021.
• Learn more about Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), a form of immigration help for children under 21, and find an attorney in NYC who can help you figure out if you might qualify. Download brochure in English. Descargar folleto en español.

• La Morada Mutual Aid Zine, 2021. “Sanctuary and Accompaniment” course at The New School (Fall 2021).
• Know Your Rights Flier. Safety Solidarity Sanctuary
• The Dream Act: An Overview. American Immigration Council. March 16, 2021
• National Immigrant Youth Alliance. The National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) is an undocumented youth-LED network of grassroots organizations, campus-based student groups and individuals committed to achieving equality for all immigrant youth, regardless of their legal status.
• NYFA Immigrant Artist Program. A New York Foundation of the Art’s project dedicated to connecting artists with services and resources to foster their creative careers, gain support and exposure for their work, and integrate into the cultural world of New York and beyond while upholding their distinct identities.
• No Safe Harbor: The Landscape of Immigration Legal Services in New York: This report, authored by the NYIC in partnership with Brooklyn Law School’s Safe Harbor Clinic and the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (I-ARC), draws on detailed interviews and surveys to ascertain the core challenges facing legal service providers and immigrant New Yorkers seeking legal assistance.NY Immigration Coalition, 2020.
• A Blueprint for the Nation: Building Immigrant Power from California to New York: The NYIC and the California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC), long-time legislative, advocacy and organizing leaders in our respective states, produced this report to celebrate what our states have done and to chart a different way forward—one that centers the humanity and dignity of immigrants. This Blueprint serves as a call to action to ask states, allies and funders to work with us and our partners to invest in organizing, building power and leadership to ensure policy wins in every state across the country, not just California and New York.
• Toolkit | Access to Postsecondary Education. National Immigration Law Center. This toolkit includes background information on tuition equity measures, an overview of state laws and policies related to higher education for immigrants, and messaging for organizers who seek to improve access for these communities.
• Make the Road New York Youth Training and College Access includes Youth-Led College Access and Financial Aid Applications and Wraparound Services for Students in Community School.

How the United States Immigration System Works. American Immigration Council. September 14, 2021.