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Church World Service grants support immigration legal services
March 12, 2008More than half of Church World Service's 35 local affiliates provide not only refugee resettlement but also immigration legal services, helping refugees and immigrants petition for family members to join them, get work permits and travel documents, apply for citizenship, and more.
To encourage and support them in this work, CWS has awarded grants to 10 of its affiliates that are recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) or are applying for BIA recognition.
The grants are funded from a distribution of assets following dissolution of the Welfare Photo Studios, Inc., which for 50 years had provided CWS and other voluntary agencies with low-cost fingerprinting and photos of the refugees they were helping resettle to the United States.
Recipients are: Lutheran Family Services, Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C.; Lutheran Social Services, Phoenix, Ariz.; Refugee Services of Texas, Austin; Ecumenical Refugee Services, Denver, Colo.; Community Refugee and Immigration Services, Columbus, Ohio; SOAR, Portland, Ore.; Catholic Family Center, Rochester, N.Y.; Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, New Haven, Conn.; Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Louisville; and Virginia Council of Churches, Harrisonburg.
Ten more grants are to be awarded this spring.
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