Legal Rights Overviews and Brochures
- Multilingual Materials for Victims and Advocates
- DHS Infographic: Protection for Immigrant Victims
- Immigration Options for Victims of Crime – DHS Brochure
- World Language Identification Guide: I Speak (Raksha)
- 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
- Pathways to Immigration Relief for Students (June 20, 2014)
Access to Public Benefits and Services for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Overviews, and 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
- 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
Legal Services Corporation Funded Assistance for Immigrant Victims
- Legal Services Access for All: Implementing the Violence Against Women Act of 2005
- Access to Publicly Funded Legal Services for Immigrant Survivors
- Legal Services Corporation Immigrant Representation Regulations 45 C.F. R. 1626
- Legal Services Corporation Program Letter 14-3
- Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Funded Legal Services Newsletter (June 2016)
- Permissibility of Providing Legal Services to Noncitizen Parents and Noncitizen Guardians of Children Seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
- And Legal Services For All: New 2014 Legal Services Corporation Regulations Implementing VAWA 2005’s Immigrant Crime Survivors’ Access To Legal Services (October 30, 2014)
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
- Driver’s License Documentation Requirements by State
- State-Funded Public Benefits Comparison Chart (April 12, 2021)
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
- State-Funded Public Benefits Comparison Chart (April 12, 2021)
- 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 and Child Health Care for Immigrant Victims – All States
- Post Assault Healthcare and Crime Victim Compensation for Immigrant Victims and Children– All States
- Emergency Medicaid for Immigrant Victims – All States
- Coverage for Forensic Costs for Immigrant Victims – All States
- Chapter 17: Access to Health Care for Immigrant Victims of Sexual Assault
- Domestic Violence Factsheet: HHS
Housing – Shelter and Transitional Housing
- Webinar-Immigrant Crime Victim Access to Federally Assisted Housing
- Joint Agency Letter On Shelters and Transitional Housing (Web Page August 12, 2016)
- 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
Housing – Public and Assisted
- NHLP: Tenant Rights DV Survivors During COVID-19
- Access to Public and Assisted Housing VAWA Self-Petitioners –Webpage
- 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 Act (VAWA) Self-Petitioner Verification Procedures
- 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
- 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
- State-Funded Public Benefits Comparison Chart (April 12, 2021)
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Guidance on Non-Citizen Eligibility
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
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
Public Charge and Immigrant Victims