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Enhancing Safety for Immigrant Survivors: Legal Rights to Immigration, Public Benefits and Family Law Protections
This presentation for the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, discussed the various legal rights, public benefits, and family law protections that exist to enhance the safety for immigrant survivors and their children. It trained professionals on screening for immigration relief eligibility, how to encourage immigration victims to access public benefits, how to build…
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Kansas: Family Law Jurisdiction and Service of Process
This document contains texts of state family law statutes governing jurisdiction and service of process, including any alternative service rules, across all types of family law cases. in the state. Also available as an Excel spreadsheet: Kansas: Family Law Jurisdiction and Service of Process (Excel chart)
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Kansas Public Benefits Screening Chart
This public benefits screening chart helps immigrants, refugees, judges, victim advocates and attorneys quickly understand which state and federal public benefits an immigrant or refugee qualifies for in each state. Eligibility varies by state, by immigration status, by victim-based legal immigration application filed, by date of entry into the U.S. and by benefits program. This tool is designed by be used…
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Access to State-Funded Public Benefits in Kansas for Survivors
This public benefits chart/table with full citations helps immigrants, refugees, judges, victim advocates and attorneys quickly understand which state and federal public benefits an immigrant or refugee qualifies for in each state. Eligibility varies by state, by immigration status, by victim-based legal immigration application filed, by date of entry into the U.S. and by benefits program. This tool is…
National Immigrant Women's Advocacy Project