CLASP submitted a public comment in response to USCIS’s proposed changes to the immigration fee schedule. We applauded the agency keeping important fee waivers and adding new fee exemptions for humanitarian programs, but voiced our concern about the harmful impacts of immigration fee increases for low-income and other vulnerable…
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) is pleased that the Biden Administration is re-establishing the White House Task Force on New Americans. This critical interagency task force aims to ensure that immigrants–including those newly arrived and those who have long-established roots in the…
Providing Income to Unemployed Workers Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance—enacted by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act—helped people unable to work due to the pandemic. This included self-employed workers, those seeking part-time employment, or people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for regular unemployment benefits.…
CLASP submitted a public comment in support of Washington State’s request to the federal government to allow all Washington residents, regardless of immigration status, to access health coverage through the state’s Washington Healthplanfinder website: In Washington State today, many immigrants go without critical health care…
Our immigration policies should not discourage immigrants and their family members from seeking physical or mental health care, nutrition, or housing benefits for which they are eligible. Extensive evidence demonstrates that the 2019 public charge rule generated widespread fear and confusion that caused immigrant families…
Este documento informativo de UnidosUS, NILC, y CLASP provee información sobre como aplicar para un Número de Identificación Personal del Contribuyente (ITIN, por sus siglas en inglés).
This fact sheet from UnidosUS, the National Immigration Law Center, and CLASP provides immigrants who need to apply for Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) information on how to do so.