This training provided an overview of public benefits eligibility for immigrant crime victims and children, explaining access to subsidized health care, TANF, housing, food stamps, and other public benefits for victims with varying immigration statuses (e.g. VAWA self-petitioners, U-Visa, T-Visa, SIJS, and DACA).
Training Materials
Legal Rights Overviews and Brochures
- Multilingual Materials for Victims and Advocates
- DHS Infographic: Protection for Immigrant Victims (January 12, 2107)
- Immigration Options for Victims of Crime – DHS Brochure
Access to Public Benefits and Services for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Overviews, Bench Cards, Chapters Multiple Benefits
- Public Benefits Toolkit
- 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
- Chapter 16.1 Appendix: HHS Funded Programs Open to All Immigrants
- Family Court Bench Card on Immigrant Crime Victim Access to Public Benefits and Services
- U Visa Victim Benefits Eligibility Process
- VAWA Public Benefits Eligibility Process
- Bench Card on Trafficking Victim Benefits Eligibility Process
- 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
Child Care
- Immigrant Crime Victim Child Care Access Chart
- Head Start Programs
- Clarification of Interpretation of “Federal Public Benefit” regarding Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Services
Driver’s Licenses
Education
- National Findings on University and College Responses to Foreign-Born Student Victims
- Foreign Born Student Victims of Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, Stalking, and Sexual Harassment: Special Needs of “M” Visa Holders
- Foreign Born Student Victims of Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, Stalking, and Sexual Harassment: Special Needs of “J” Visa Holders
- Foreign Born Student Victims of Sexual Assault, Dating Violence, Stalking, and Sexual Harassment: Special Needs of “F” Visa Holders
- Student Aid Eligibility – Title IV Aid for “Battered Immigrants-Qualified Aliens” as provided for in VAWA
- Federal Student Aid Handbook – Immigration Status Eligible Students
- Chapter 13: When Foreign Students or Their Family Members Are Sexually Assaulted: Immigration Implications of the Student and Exchange Visitor System
Health Care
- Healthcare Access for Immigrants who are NOT Eligible to Access the Healthcare Exchanges
- Immigrants’ Access to Programs and Services Necessary to Protect Life and Safety and Post-Assault Health Care
- Pre-Natal Care for Qualified Immigrants – Hawaii
- Post Assault Healthcare and Crime Victim Compensation – Hawaii
- Emergency Medicaid for Non-Qualified Immigrants – Hawaii
- Coverage for Forensic Costs for Undocumented Immigrants – Hawaii
- Chapter 17: Access to Health Care for Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault
- Domestic Violence Factsheet: HHS
Housing – Shelter and Transitional Housing
- Joint Agency Letter On Shelters and Transitional Housing (August 12, 2016)
- Webinar-Immigrant Crime Victim Access to Federally Assisted Housing (February 22, 2017)
- Joint Agency Letter on Shelters and Transitional 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 (Aug. 16, 2016)
- NIWAP, Brochure for Transitional Housing
- NIWAP, Fact Sheet: Immigrant Access to Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing (Oct.23, 2016)
Housing – Public and Assisted
- Access to Public and Assisted Housing VAWA Self-Petitioners (January 26, 2017)
- 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 (Dec. 15, 2016)
- HUD, Notice PIH 2017-02 (HA), Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Self-Petitioner Verification Procedures (Jan. 19, 2017)
- NHLP, Memo: HUD Housing Covered by Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act
- NHLP, Chart on Federally Assisted Housing and Immigrant Eligibility (Feb. 2017)
- NIWAP, How to Advocate for Public and Assisted Housing for Your Battered Immigrant or Trafficking Survivor Client (Feb. 8, 2017)
- NIWAP & Legal Momentum, HUD Programs and Immigrant Eligibility, Chapter 16.2 (Feb. 8, 2017)
Low-Income Home Energy and Weatherization Assistance Programs
SNAP – Food Stamps
Non-Work Social Security Numbers
- 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
Public Charge and Immigrant Victims
TANF
- Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants
- Domestic Violence Factsheet: HHS
- State-funded TANF Replacement Programs
- Eligibility for State Funded TANF Replacement Programs for Immigrant Crime Victims
VAWA Confidentiality and Immigration Enforcement
Webpages and Webinars
- VAWA Confidentiality Protections for Immigrant Crime Victims in the Context of Immigration Enforcement (Webpage) (February 23, 2017)
- VAWA Confidentiality Webinar (February 9, 2015)
- Enhanced Safety Planning for Immigrant Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence Webinar: Early Identification of Victims and VAWA Confidentiality (February 24, 2017)
Statutes
Congressionally Mandated Implementing Policies
- VAWA Confidentiality Statutes, Legislative History and Implementing Policy (2.23.17)
- All DHS Directive on VAWA Confidentiality Implementation
- Included and explains the annual requirement for training taking the FLTEC and DHS developed on line course ‘VAWA Confidentiality and Immigration Relief’
- All DHS VAWA confidentiality instruction
- DHS Broadcast Code of Admission for VAWA confidentiality protected cases the DHS computerized red flag system for cases that have already been filed
- ICE and OPLA VAWA confidentiality operations memos
- DHS Civil Rights Civil Liberties Complaint instructions for violation investigations
- CRCL Complaint form (general use)
- Memorandum: Non-disclosure and Other Prohibitions Relating to Battered Aliens: IIRIRA §384
- Executive Office of Immigration Review EOIR: VAWA Confidentiality Procedures for Immigration Court
Training Materials
- Three Prongs of VAWA Confidentiality
- Chapter 3.2: VAWA Confidentiality and Breaches of Confidentiality
- Service Provider Confidentiality Safeguards: Best Practices
- Advocate’s Guide to Immigrant Survivors’ Rights and Protections (2013)
- Chapter 3 of Empowering Survivors: VAWA Confidentiality, History, Purpose, DHS Implementation, and Violations of VAWA Confidentiality Protections
- Newsletter on VAWA Confidentiality
- Family Court Bench Card on VAWA Confidentiality
Legal Services Corporation Funded Assistance for Immigrant Victims
- Legal Services Access for All: Implementing the Violence Against Women Act of 2005
- Legal Services Corporation Immigrant Representation Regulations 45 C.F. R. 1626, April 18, 2014
- Legal Services Corporation Program Letter 14-3
Immigration Options for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking
- Family Court Bench Card on Immigration Rights of Battered Spouses, Children and Immigrant Crime Victims
- Chapter 3.3 VAWA Self-Petition (2013)
- Chapter 10 U-Visas: Victims of Criminal Activity (2013)
- Immigration Protection Screening Checklist: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
- U-Visa Evidence Checklist
- U-Visa “Helpfulness” Checklist
- U-Visa Toolkit for Law Enforcement Agencies and Prosecutors
- U-Visa Certification Tool Kit for Federal, State and Local Judges, Commissioners, and Magistrates (February 3, 2014)
- Comparison Chart of U visa, T Visa, Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Self-Petition, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- U-Visa Quick Reference
- VAWA Red Flags
- Human Trafficking and the T-Visa
- Sample Questions for Identifying a Trafficked/Enslaved Person