ILAP Advocacy & Outreach Director Julia Brown, Esq. testified in support of LD 2, An Act To Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process before the Maine Legislature’s Committee on State and Local Government.
Read MoreThe Biden-Harris administration wasted no time on its first day and ended some cruel, anti-immigrant policies. Read about ILAP’s Policy Priorities for the administration’s first 100 days.
Read MoreHere is an update on recent state and federal activities impacting the lives of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Maine.
Read MoreWe’re looking ahead to 2021 with hope and determination, while acknowledging the ongoing difficulties we all face as the pandemic continues to devastate communities across the state. Our plans include some bold new initiatives, deliberate internal changes, and the strengthening of our core immigration legal services for thousands of Mainers every year.
Read MoreOur federal government STILL has not acted on a second round of COVID-19 relief. Worse, it has not remedied the millions of immigrant families left out of the first stimulus payments. Call or email our senators today and make it clear that we demand that immigrant families be included in COVID-19 relief!
Read MoreTPS holders from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan have automatic work authorization through October 4, 2021. If you re-registered for TPS from one of those countries during the last registration period, you have automatic work authorization through October 4, 2021.
En Español: Últimas Noticias de Diciembre 2020 sobre TPS para El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal, y Sudán
Kreyòl Ayisyen: Desamn 2020 TPS Anons Pou El Salvadò, Ayiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nèpal, e Soudan
Here is an update on recent state and federal activities impacting the lives of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Maine.
Read MoreThe ACLU of Maine, the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Maine School of Law, and ILAP have filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against USCIS, seeking to compel the agency’s Boston Sub-Office and Newark Asylum Office to release information about how they assess asylum requests.
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