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Dear Friend,
This past year, the Immigration Advocates Network and our partners
launched innovative new initiatives to further immigrant justice and
helped thousands navigate our changing legal landscape. Below are a
few highlights from this past year that were made possible by your
partnership and support.
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[link removed] Before the year ends, please consider investing in our work and the
community of over 8,000 immigrant advocates that we support.
Immigration Advocates Network: 2021 Highlights
Fighting Wage Theft
This past year the -
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[link removed] ¡Reclamo! - a digital tool to combat wage theft. ¡Reclamo! was
developed -
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New York and is designed to help workers and non-lawyer advocates
navigate the complexities of employment law, safely, in plain
language, and from any mobile phone. Learn more at -
[link removed] www.reclamoapp.org.
10 Years Making Citizenship Easier
This year, our award-winning naturalization tool -
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decade, we’ve helped thousands apply for citizenship and saved
applicants an estimated $50 million in legal feed. This year, we’ve
added the Fee Waiver form to Citizenshipworks to help applicants and
their advocates save even more staff time and money.
Supporting Afghans and Advocates
The advocate community has rallied to support Afghan refugees, by
working together, sharing information, creating pro bono projects,
and more. The Immigration Advocates Network has helped by:
Updating our -
[link removed] legal directory of 1,200 nonprofits to include relevant services
provided (i.e. SIV, humanitarian parole) and adding Dari and Pashto
to the "languages spoken" search function.
Creating a -
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Organizing and hosting an -
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Access to all our materials is free for nonprofit staff and pro
bonos. -
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[link removed] Want to help us do more in 2022? Make a tax-deductible donation
before the year ends!
Top Ten Countdown from 2021
Check out our favorite resources created throughout the past year -
by you, for you, and with you:
10. Most recent website collaboration, launched with our national
partners to keep the field and community updated on immigration
reform: -
[link removed] Ready to Stay
9. Latest addition to the IAN website: -
[link removed] National Volunteer Opportunities to connect remote pro bono
volunteers
8. Most clicked partner resource on our website in 2021: -
[link removed] Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project Membership Information & Asylum EAD
Rules (2,679 clicks - and counting!)
7. Most popular IAN webinars:
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[link removed] Understanding SIV for Afghans - a webinar with the International
Refugee Assistance Project
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Agreement May Help Your Clients - a webinar with the American
Immigration Council, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and
Dobrin & Han
6. Most updated libraries: -
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5. Most helpful section in our Alerts: -
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4. Best legal empowerment collaboration: -
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3. Most valuable addition to -
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2. Most downloaded resource in 2021: our own -
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1. Most relied upon IAN resource: the -
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You are Invited for 2022
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solve problems, create new tools, share resources and your expertise.
Contact us at -
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Thank you for partnership.
Happy New Year,
The IAN Team
About Immigration Advocates Network
The Immigration Advocates Network (IAN), a program of Pro Bono Net,
is dedicated to expanding access to immigration legal resources and
information through collaboration and technology. We create our own
tools, build platforms for others, and work with partners to harness
the power of technology to better support immigrants and their
advocates.
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