Training Materials
Public Benefits Interactive Maps and State Charts
- DHS – Interactive Infographic U.S. Immigration Benefits for Noncitizen Crime Victims
- All State Public Benefits Charts and Interactive Public Benefits Map (2025)
- Interactive Public Benefits Map
- State-by-State Infographics and Timelines
- A Guide to Public Benefits Map for Immigrant Survivors of Crime
- All State Demographics
Webinars
- Immigrant Access to Federally Funded Housing Webinar: Collaboration with the National Housing Law Project
- Public Benefits and Services Legally Available to Immigrant Children and Victims – What Courts Need to Know?
- “And Legal Services For All: New 2014 Legal Services Corporation Regulations Implementing VAWA 2005’s Immigrant Crime Survivors’ Access To Legal Services”
- Healthcare: Understanding the Affordable Care Act and How it Affects Immigrant Survivors
- Yes We Can!: Public Benefits for Immigrant Survivors
Immigration Legal Rights, Brochures, and Chapters
- Immigration Options for Victims of Crime – DHS Brochure
- Information on the Legal Rights Available to Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence in the United States and Facts about Immigrating on a Marriage-Based Visa
- Chapter 03.3: Preparing the VAWA Self-Petition and Applying for Residence
- Chapter 03.6: U-Visas: Victims of Criminal Activity
- Pathways to Immigration Relief for Students
- World Language Identification Guide: I Speak (Raksha)
Housing – Shelter and Transitional Housing
- Joint Agency Letter On Shelters and Transitional Housing
- Webinar-Immigrant Crime Victim Access to Federally Assisted Housing
- HUD-HHS-DOJ Letter Regarding Immigrant Access to Housing and Services
- HUD, SNAPS, The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and HUD’s Homeless Assistance Programs
- NIWAP, Brochure for Transitional Housing
- NIWAP, Fact Sheet: Immigrant Access to Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing
- What Shelter and Rental Housing Assistance are Available to Immigrant Survivors During COVID-19?
- VAWA Home: Rights for Survivors in LIHTC (The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program)
Housing – Public and Assisted
- Access to Public and Assisted Housing VAWA Self-Petitioners
- HUD, Memo for Secretary Julian Castro from Tonya Robinson, Acting General Counsel re: Eligibility of Battered Noncitizen Self-Petitioners for Financial Assistance Under Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980
- HUD, Notice PIH 2017-02 (HA), Violence Against Women (VAWA) Self-Petitioner Verification Procedures
- Annotated Section 214 of the Housing Act: 42 U.S. Code § 1436a – Restriction on Use of Public and Assisted Housing By Immigrants
- NHLP, Memo: HUD Housing Covered by Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act
- NHLP, Chart on Federally Assisted Housing and Immigrant Eligibility
- NIWAP, How to Advocate for Public and Assisted Housing for Your Battered Immigrant or Trafficking Survivor Client
- NIWAP & Legal Momentum, HUD Programs and Immigrant Eligibility, Chapter 16.2
Non-Work Social Security Numbers
- Social Security Administration Program Operations Manual System (POMS)
- Obtaining Non-work Social Security Numbers Needed by VAWA Self-Petitioners to Maintain Public and Assisted Housing
- Request That SSA Issue A Non-Work SSN to a Benefits Eligible Immigrant
- Triagency Letter: Citizenship Immigration Status and Social Security Numbers
- Evidence Checklists for Work with Immigrant Survivors – Includes Benefits and Non-Work Social Security Numbers
- Obtaining Non-Work Social Security Numbers
Benefits Access for Immigrant Survivors Tools
- Programs Open to Immigrant Victims and All Immigrants Without Regard to Immigration Status
- Anti-Discrimination Provisions that Apply to Programs Receiving Federal Funding Serving Victims of Violence against Women Crimes
- Annotated Violence Against Women Act Self-Petitioner Definition INA 101(a)(51)
- Annotated Statutes Related to Public Benefits Eligibility for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
- Chapter 16: Access To Programs And Services That Can Help Victims of Sexual Assault
- Chapter 04.1: Access to Programs and Services that Can Help Battered Immigrants
- Chapter 04.2: Public Benefits Access for Battered Immigrant Women and Children
- Chapter 4.3 Barriers to Accessing Services: The Importance of Advocates Accompanying Battered Immigrants Applying for Public Benefits
Regulations and Policies
- Annotated Statutes Related to Public Benefits Eligibility for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
- Interim Guidance on Verification of Citizenship, Qualified Alien Status, and Eligibility Under Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
- See, Exhibit B to Attachment 5—Aliens Who Have Been Battered Or Subjected To Extreme Cruelty Within The Meaning of Section 431 of The Act