Resources for Immigrants

About.com's Immigration Issues Guide

This site provides helpful, annotated links to a variety of information on the Web about the history of immigration, including laws, facts, important events, and remembrance. In addition to links about specific cultural groups, researchers can also use this site to help navigate the Web for genealogical information.

American Memory Project

This is a list of immigrant exhibits from the Library of Congress' American Memory Historical Collections, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program. These include multimedia exhibits of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.

Ellis Island National Monument

"Today, almost half of America's population can trace their ancestry through Ellis Island."

The History Channel's Ellis Island

American Immigration Lawyers Association

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is a national bar association of attorneys who practice and teach immigration law. Here visitors may obtain lawyer referrals, link to information about the contributions of immigrants, and explore the various myths surrounding immigration.

Mailing Address:
918 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004-1400
Phone: (202) 216-2400
Fax: (202) 783-7853NW

Attorney Referral Service
Toll-free: 1-800-954-0254
email: ilrs@aila.org

National Immigration Forum

The Forum advocates and builds public support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and that are fair and supportive to newcomers to the U.S. The resources on this web site range from important immigration facts to current events and recent immigration legislation.

Mailing Address:
50 F Street NW, Suite #300
Washington DC 20001
Phone: (202) 347-0040
Fax:(202)347-0058

Center for Immigration Studies

The Center for Immigration Studies is a think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States. In addition to its own publications on the topic, this web site provides an extensive book list, and collection of other immigration related web sites.

Mailing Address:
1522 K Street N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005-1202
Phone: (202) 466-8185
Fax: (202) 466-8076
email: center@cis.org

Under delegated authority of the Attorney General of the United States, EOIR administers and interprets Federal immigration laws and regulations through the conduct of immigration court proceedings, appellate reviews, and administrative hearings in individual cases.

Mailing Address:
Public Affairs Office
5107 Leesburg Pike, Suite 2600
Falls Church, VA 22041
Tel: (703)305-0289
Fax: (703)605-0365

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for enforcing the laws regulating the admission of foreign-born persons (i.e., aliens) to the United States and for administering various immigration benefits, including the naturalization of qualified applicants for U.S. citizenship.

New Orleans District Office Location:
701 Loyola Avenue, Room T-8011

Mailing Address:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Immigration Office
701 Loyola Avenue, Room T-8011
New Orleans, LA 70113

U.S. State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs.

Main address:
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000

U.S. Census Bureau Statistics

WorldLinQ( http://www.worldlinq.org) is an innovative multilingual, Web-based information system developed by the Queens Borough Public Library with the aid of a grant from AT&T. It is the goal of WorldLinQ to provide electronic multilingual information resources to library patrons free of charge. Although WorldLinQ was developed specifically for Queens Borough Library patrons, there are many resources listed which will be useful to patrons throughout the United States.
WorldLinQ has nine language modules: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French, Korean, Romanian, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian.

Updated Sept 2, 2006