DACA is Back! – Prep Session 2 – Filling out the DACA Application, Part 1
Think you might qualify for first time DACA or renewal application? Have questions about filling out your application and gathering all the documents that are needed to apply? Join us tonight to find out! We gotchu!
DACA Is Back! Prep Session 1 – What You Need to Gather
Think you might qualify for first time DACA or renewal application? Have questions about filling out your application and gathering all the documents that are needed to apply? Join us tonight to find out! We gotchu!
Do I Need an Affidavit? Can I Use an Affidavit as Proof of DACA Requirements?
What is an affidavit? An affidavit is like someone vouching for you. is a sworn statement that is signed and dated. It is a crime to lie in a signed affidavit. The following words turn a letter into an affidavit: “I declare under penalty of perjury that this statement is true and correct to the […]
Amid Changes to the DACA Program and COVID-19, DACA Recipients are Fired Up and Civically Engaged
Over the past eight years, and despite relentless attacks and efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to end the program, DACA has had an outsized positive impact on the roughly 826,000 young people who have received the status. From August 18 to September 10, 2020, Tom K. Wong of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center at the […]
Guidance for Practitioners Helping Clients with DACA Cases Electronically
In response to COVID-19, many offices providing immigration legal services have temporarily closed for in-person services. At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing the federal court cases challenging President Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and could issue a ruling by the end of June 2020. Right […]
K-12 Educator DACA Decision Resource
Objective: This resource will allow K-12 educators to have concrete tools on how to support the undocumented community during the Supreme Court’s Decision on DACA Background On November 12, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) case and will issue their decision any time between March and June of […]
A Guide for Educators in a Post-DACA, Covid-19 crisis 
We were here before DACA, we will be here after. We will continue to fight to protect our people from deportation and push for a future where every person, regardless of immigration status, can live and thrive without fear. Unfortunately the Trump Administration and the Supreme Court do not think DACA recipients deserve protection from […]
DACA Renewal – All The Information You Need To Know if You Are Looking to Renew
[Disclaimer: In these uncertain times, knowledge is power. Here find tools below to help you make an informed decision about renewing your DACA. Please note that we are not lawyers, and therefore we cannot provide legal advice.] UPDATE (as of April 24, 2018): After the recent D.C. court decision ruling that the decision to end […]
About the DACA Renewal Fund
On September 5, 2017 the Trump Administration announced an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The lives of more than 800,000 immigrant youth who have benefited from this program over the last 5 years were immediately upended. Without the social security numbers and work permits provided by DACA, these young people […]
Republicans Just Shutdown the Government. What Does this Mean for the Dream Act?
Republicans have just voted to shutdown the government after choosing to stand on the wrong side of history: the side of racism and blocking protections for the millions of immigrant youth at immediate risk of detention and deportation. Trump’s shutdown means that both parties must come to the negotiations table and figure out a pathway […]
