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An LIRS GUIDE for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants Released from Detention First Steps An LIRS GUIDE for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants Released from Detention Edition 2014 DEDICATION “This guide is dedicated to those who have fled persecution, torture, and violations of basic human rights and dignity. To the countless refugees, asylum seekers, survivors of torture and persecution, and migrants who have exercised courage most humans will never be able to comprehend: may you find safety, the freedom to direct your own lives, and a spirit of welcome here in America.” —Angela Edman, LIRS Staff Attorney “To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew. We survived, that 2014 Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service should be enough but it isn’t. We must work hard to become whole again, to fill our soul with love and inspiration, to live the life that Information in this manual may be reprinted with the following note: Reprinted with permission of the Detained Torture Survivors’ Legal Support Network, a was intended for us before it was disrupted by war and horrors, and program of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. help rebuild a world that is better than the one we had just left.” —Loung Ung, Cambodian-American Human Rights Activist For information or bulk orders, contact: [email protected] LIRS.org Started by Lutheran congregations in 1939, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) is a national organization walking with migrants Printed by LIRS Press and refugees through ministries of service and justice, transforming U.S. Printed in the U.S.A. communities by ensuring that newcomers are not only self-sufficient but also become connected and contributing members of their adopted International Standard Book Number: 978-0-9908689-4-1 communities in the United States. PREFACE By Selena Sujoldzic* ome. It takes only four letters to write the word, but for some, it takes a lifetime to find its meaning. The word H has caused me, as a former refugee, much pain, confusion, and uncertainty. When I finally found its meaning, I found peace. Home for me was Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bloody aggression and genocide inflicted upon Bosnia in the 1990s forced me and my family to run to save our lives. America opened its doors and welcomed us to its shores. With LIRS’s help, we got back on our feet. My journey, as you will find with any former refugee, has been nothing short of interesting. When my parents, older brother, and I resettled to America in 1995, I was 13 years old. We not only experienced culture shock, but we also did not know where to go from there. Lutheran church volunteers did all they could to help us, but we didn’t know many of the basic steps we needed to take to begin our new lives. We didn’t have a guide or a step-by-step explanation of how to build our future in a new country. My parents, who are chemical engineers and are well-educated people, felt helpless and unable to guide PREFACE PREFACE their two teenaged children out of this confusing time. Finally, just as it is important to be proud of where you come from, it is also important to feel American. It does not mean you are We encountered many roadblocks; some were presented by life forgetting your heritage; it simply means you have a place you itself, and some by people who did not accept us. Only through can once again call home. We come from a place where other true resilience did we overcome these obstacles and gain the people got to write our books of life and dictate our faith. America ability to call America our home. My fellow migrants: you too will is giving you a chance to start over, a chance to write your own encounter obstacles and people who will not accept you. You will book of life. I am still writing mine; it includes all my mistakes, all be judged by the community, as well as by people who come my regrets, all my successes; but it’s MINE. From this day forward, from the same place as you. This is inescapable. You must start writing the chapters of your book of life. I hope First Steps remember one thing: you are in America now, where the only can be part of your first chapter, and will guide you to a place person who can stand in your way is you. Other roadblocks and where you will no longer feel like a refugee, but a person who people can stop you only if you let them. That is the beauty of can smile and say, “I am home.” this country. You have the freedom to shape your own life and build your own future. Be proud of where you come from. Respect your culture and remember your heritage. Then take all of that pride and respect * Selena Sujoldzic is a former refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and use it to move forward in this great country. Do not miss and arrived in the U.S. in 1995. She earned her law degree, and opportunities by remaining stuck in the past and the “what-ifs.” is now a practicing attorney in Wichita, Kansas. Selena has been When I let go of my past, my present came to light and suddenly, a leader in LIRS’s Refugee Academy, an opportunity for former I had a future. refugees to build advocacy, community organizing, and leadership skills. She hopes to use her experience as a refugee and her law I wish that my family and I had a guide like First Steps to tell us degree to help others like her. how to move forward and take advantage of America’s great opportunities; what benefits were available to us; where we could turn for help and find legal, social, medical, and community resources; and what important laws and procedures we needed to understand and utilize. I am certain if we had, we would have started calling this country “home” much sooner, and spent fewer years living in uncertainty. We spent enough time living in uncertainty and darkness in our birth countries, and no one should have to live that way here too. WELCOME f you have recently been released from immigration detention: this guide will help you find support and assistance while I you build a new life in the United States (U.S.). If you fled from your home country to seek protection in the U.S., this guide will help you find legal and community support during the last part of your journey to safety. If you are a lawyer, case manager, or otherwise provide services to newcomers, this guide may help you find information that will empower your clients to understand and access their rights. This guide aims to provide information and resources to help you make your way from your home country, possibly through immigration detention, to a situation of safety and security in the U.S. It provides very important information on your rights, responsibilities, and eligibility for basic services and benefits such as healthcare, education, and other necessities. It also provides information on community and cultural groups to help you feel at home in America. It has many details, so if you do not understand something, take it to your lawyer or case manager, and ask them to explain it to you. Because a lot of these rights depend on why you came to the U.S. FIRST STEPS WELCOME and what type of legal status you have or are seeking, we have immigration services; Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanded our previous version of First Steps, published in 2005 (ICE) enforces immigration laws within the U.S., and Customs and under its previous title, Pocket Knowledge, to include not only more Border Protection (CBP) enforces immigration laws at the border. in-depth and updated information, but also have added detailed The Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) is within the information according to immigration status. This guide provides Department of Justice (DOJ), and is in charge of the immigration information about rights, responsibilities, services, and benefits in court system. The information in this guide may change. Call the general, and provides specific information for those who fled to the phone numbers listed to get current information. U.S. to escape persecution or torture in their home countries, including: refugees, asylees, asylum seekers, and those seeking If you are a provider of legal, social, medical, or community services, withholding of removal or protection under the Convention Against please utilize this guide to help your clients find more detailed Torture. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) is releasing information and resources. You may wish to distribute the shorter supplements covering other statuses, and this guide may already status-specific supplements to your clients, and use this longer contain some of these supplements. More information on statuses, guide as a reference. Please also share with other service providers. and how to obtain information for those holding or seeking other statuses, can be found in Chapter 2. If you are a church or faith-based organization, please also use this guide to help migrants you serve understand their rights, and distribute Please note that this guide provides information about the law; any relevant status-specific supplements to migrants. Please share the however, you should always consult with a lawyer if you have legal supplements and the link to this guide with other churches and religious questions. Do not rely on this guide instead of seeking the advice groups, ethnic community groups, and organizations in your of a lawyer.
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