The toolkit includes program planning documents, examples of currently operating workplace ELL programs, sample marketing materials, and other resources to assist in implementing a workplace ELL program

The toolkit will be helpful to anyone seeking ways to better serve the foreign born as they prepare to naturalize.

This guide offers strategies for community members interested in creating an inclusive community that values and embraces newcomers. Immigrant integration/inclusion, which is most successful at the local level, creates a community where everyone feels welcomed, supported, and empowered regardless of immigration legal status.

This one-page document gives ten indicators of a state or community that is welcoming to immigrants, including providing ample community resources for newly arrived immigrants, educational services, language access, and more.

Translations of the U.S. History/Government Test Questions

The translations listed here were completed by USCIS and community organizations throughout the country. For translations completed by community organizations, the organization's contact information is included on the translation.

***Please note that some information, such as the name of the President and Speaker of the House, changes regularly and may not be up to date. Other information, such as the name of the applicant’s Senator and Governor, will vary depending on where the applicant lives.

Translations of the U.S. History/Government Test Questions

The translations listed here were completed by USCIS and community organizations throughout the country. For translations completed by community organizations, the organization's contact information is included on the translation.

***Please note that some information, such as the name of the President and Speaker of the House, changes regularly and may not be up to date. Other information, such as the name of the applicant’s Senator and Governor, will vary depending on where the applicant lives.

Most successful at the local level, immigrant integration brings togethers newcomers and receiving community members to cultivate and foster a community that is diverse and inclusive of everyone. Partner with your neighbors, local organizations, and local officials to promote immigrant integration for the new year and beyond.

The Maryland Governor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs launched in October 2021 and has made great impacts statewide to promote immigrant integration.

This toolkit is meant to accompany CLINIC’s whitepaper ‘Immigrant and Community Integration Step by Step Guide to Local Integration Programming.’ These materials in this toolkit offer informational content and accompanying worksheets to help you think through all a project’s core elements. Programs with established integration programming will also find the materials helpful for evaluating and improving existing programs.

Immigrant integration is an equal partnership between newcomers and the receiving community who work together to make their community more inclusive. As trusted members in the community, immigration legal service providers play a key role in promoting integration. Nonprofits that engage in integration efforts in addition to legal services increase capacity, expand their services, work with all members in the community, and thus have an increase in opportunities to additional/alternate funding streams.

The Office of Global Michigan promotes integration initiatives statewide with the help of local partners.

This toolkit contains helpful information on how best to use volunteers in your program, how to recruit and retain volunteers, and how to incorporate them into your program’s plan for the passage of Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

CLINIC promotes immigrant integration and encourages the furthering of integration efforts among its network of more than 400 affiliates. Review our immigrant integration overview that highlights the benefits of integration in the community, as well as key considerations for successful integration efforts.

Immigrant integration is most successful at the local level. Here are several ways to promote immigrant integration in your community for the New Year and beyond!

Celebrate Advent with CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration! The Center for Immigrant Integration’s Advent calendar is a unique take on the Advent tradition to share stories of hope, integration in the community, and success from CLINIC and its affiliates. Each day will feature a story, an advocacy endeavor, resource, and tips that educate the participant and encourages action in support of immigrant integration and CLINIC’s mission.

Trust between newcomers and the receiving community is instrumental to integration work. Nonprofit immigration legal service providers are key partners in effective integration and inclusion work.

Immigrant integration results, in large part, from local partnerships between newcomers and the receiving community. Faith-based organizations are key partners in integration work.

Día de los niños (Day of the Children) is an annual celebration in Mexico and other Latin Countries that dates back to 1925. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Día in the United States, CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration offers a children’s book list, including staff favorites.

Post this image on Citizenship Day (Sept. 17). Announce any activities you are hosting that day. Follow up with pictures.

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Post this image throughout the week. Ask your followers to share it and tag their friends that are newly naturalized citizens, welcoming them to their new home.

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This white paper will guide your organization through this process to help you design, implement, evaluate and reassess your integration initiatives while demonstrating how to actively promote integration in your community.

Seeking ways to incorporate integration into church-based celebrations? Find inspiration here through real-life examples of parish-based work in local communities. We invite you to print our English and Spanish Holiday Prayers for Immigrant Integration booklet, which includes prayers for Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

CLINIC's civic participation curriculum has four modules that can be used all together or separately. For each module, there is a teacher handbook and a student workbook with readings, discussion questions and activities. We have also provided a student learning evaluation.

Webinar

• How to Establish and Develop a Successful ESL Program at Your Agency
  This webinar is part 2 of a 3-part series on language access.
• The Mechanics of English Language Learning

Here are six ways immigration practitioners and community leaders can encourage census participation in their cities.

This toolkit is designed to help faith leaders like you ensure that everyone in your community is counted so that your local schools, roads and hospitals get their fair share of funding and your community receives fair political representation at all levels of government.

Created by Mosaica: The Center for Nonprofit Development & Pluralism in partnership with Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. under a project funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, “Technical Assistance to Promote Refugee Citizenship & Civic Participation.” This guide was developed through a collaboration between Mosaica and the Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning’s “Civic Engagement for All” initiative. It is a companion piece to a webinar conducted on March 9, 2009.

CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration offers strategies to promote integration for the New Year! Be sure to share with us which initiative you will explore with your community. The Migration Policy Institute has published a report on the importance of volunteers for successful refugee integration. Justice for Immigrants hosts a webinar on the importance of Parish IDs. Arkansas United promotes immigrant integration during their annual convention.

The holidays bring families and communities together around the world to celebrate the season with traditions passed down from generation to generation. These books explore several different cultures integrating American Christmas traditions with their own while illustrating how different countries celebrate and welcome the holidays.

Nearly three quarters of all farmworkers and almost one third of all meat and poultry workers are foreign-born.

City governments have a variety of resources at their disposal that can be helpful in promoting or expanding immigrant integration initiatives. Here are some of the most common functions or attributes that agencies gain or can seek when they make appropriate requests for support.

Use CLINIC’s curated booklist to engage immigrants in your community.

Centering on family, culture and the courage it takes to start a new life, these stories highlight unique immigrant experiences readers of all ages will enjoy and learn from. 

CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration would like to ask everyone to include migrants in their Holy Week reflections with this prayer.

Celebrations like Independence Day are a great opportunity to welcome our newest neighbors with open arms. Use these tips from CLINIC’s Center for Immigrant Integration to do just that.

Just because Mother's Day is over, it doesn't mean we should stop praying for immigrant moms who sacrifice everything to give their families a better life. Our integration team has composed this prayer for them.

Although we can trace the roots of many Easter traditions back thousands of years, we can thank immigrants for introducing them to the American public. The integration of immigrant traditions into U.S. society played a major role in shaping our modern Easter celebrations. 

CLINIC’s White Paper provides a better understanding of immigrant integration as a concept and contextualizes it in the work that CLINIC does because of its roots in Catholic social teaching.