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FAQs and Law (Immigrants)

Frequently Asked Questions About the H-1B Visa (CA)

Facts About American Customs & Culture (Consumer-SOS)

Legally Staying In The US (US Law.com)
Information on Green Cards, Work Visas, H-1B visas
E2 Visas, U.S. Citizenship Applications, Marriage-based Green Cards, Family-based Green Cards and NAFTA (TN) Visas.

Immigration Law
Answers to hundreds of questions on immigration.

Currency Conversions
Convert 164 currencies into US dollars and back or to each other!

Frequently Asked Questions On Immigration (INS)
Learn the ins and outs on over 60 topics from A-Z.

Immigration Law Subject Index & Search Engine (Visalaw.com)
Popular immigration topics A-Z.


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Forms

Immigration Legal Assistance Project  (LA County)
The Immigration Legal Assistance Project provides advice and consultation on immigration law, and can help you prepare various immigration forms.

Download Immigration Forms

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Help Groups (Immigrants)

Immigration Legal Assistance Project  (LA County)
The Immigration Legal Assistance Project provides advice and consultation on immigration law, and can help you prepare various immigration forms.

Find The INS Field Office Nearest You

Find An Immigration Lawyer

World Directory of Embassies & Consulates
Select the embassy and your location from their drop box.

Immigration Resources With Descriptions

ACLU Immigration Links (National & Some States)

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Refugees
FAQs and Law
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Help Groups (Immigrant And Refugee Advocates)

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FAQs and Law (Refugees)

Facts About American Customs & Culture (Consumer-SOS)

Frequently Asked Questions About The Refugee Resettlement Program

FAQ's On Refugees & Immigrants

Currency Conversions
Convert 164 currencies into US dollars and back or to each other!

Refugee Resettlement In The US (Articles)

Refugee.org Site Index (All The Hot Topics)
 

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Help Groups (Refugees)

Immigration & Refugee Services Of America
RSA helps refugees and their families build new lives
in communities throughout the United States.

Refugee Resettlement Help Groups (Consumer-SOS)

World Directory of Embassies & Consulates
Select the embassy and your location from their drop box.

Refugee Assistance Orgs Throughout US (Few Links)

Contacts On Medicaid, Children's Health and Managed Care.
For state-by-state-information on the above, click on the state of your choice, or on the name of the state below the map.
 

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Free Translations Into Various Languages

Identify The Language And Translate it! (Google Translate)
If you know the language, translate it from one of 50+ languages. If you don't know the language, Google will tell you what it is and translate it for you! Just select "Detect Language" in the "Translate From" drop box.

World Star Free Online Machine Translators
Translates over 40 languages including Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese and numerous European languages.

DictionaryReference.com
Translates to and From English the following:
Simple Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

FreeDict.com,
Translate to and From English the following:
Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Russian, Swahili and Swedish. 

Free Translations Via Computer (AltaVista)
Use their languages section to look up your search words and translate letters into French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, . Also translates these languages back to English.

Translating From Arabic To English And Vice Versa
For Arabic to English, must sign up for their free registration.

Language Identifier
Type in five or more words and it will guess the language.  Then convert the text to your desired language through one of the Internet translator sites above.

Voycabulary
Don't know a word used on a site? Enter the URL into this page and it gives you a new page in which you can click on any word on the page to find it's meaning.

FreeTranslation.com
Type in the URL of a Web site and get the gist of what's being said.

Altavista Translate
A sophisticated tool that offers additional translations from Korean and Japanese to English (but not vice versa).

Language-Museum.com
A catalog of more than 1,200 languages that provides usage statistics, as well as samples (and translations) of each writing system.

Your Dictionary.com Translation Services

LOGOS Dictionary
Contains 7,580,560 entries in 188 different languages and lets you search for the meaning of a word even if you don't know what language it's from.

InterTran Language Translation
A free web translation service that can translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire Web pages in 28 different languages.

SYSTRAN Internet Translation Technologies
Translates an entire Web site's language, text.

Dictionaries Travel Translations
This site is a translation tool for many obscure languages, including Norwegian, Hungarian, and Dutch.

OmniGlot: Language Guide
A guide to writing systems — about 150 languages in all — includes alphabets, histories, and free downloadable fonts.

The Dialectizer
Convert English to several comic dialects. Hilarious.

Online Arabic Translation Tool
Translate content on Arabic sites to English using this resource. Plug in the text or the URL to get the translation.

TalkIslam.com
Inlcudes a Quran translation tool.

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Facts About American Customs & Culture

http://www.internationalstudies.ilstu.edu/studentserve/StudentCulture.shtml
American Customs and Courtesies, Time, Using First Names, Greeting and Casual Conversation, Friendships, Dating Relationships, Informal Social Visits, Cleanliness and Body Odor, etc.

Additional Site On American Customs & Courtesies

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Help Agencies By Nationality (California)
Asian
Hispanic
Indian (India)
Russian/Ukranian
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Asian

Immigration Legal Assistance Project  (LA County)
The Immigration Legal Assistance Project provides advice and consultation on immigration law, and can help you prepare various immigration forms.

United Way Help Line  (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose your state, select your city, and look up help agencies galore!!! Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can think of.  For the best results,  type in words like  "Asians and Social Services" or "Refugee and (the name of your topic)".

Receiving Public Benefits (CA)
Benefits for Aged or Disabled Immigrants: Supplemental Security Income and Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants.

Domestic Violence Victims And Welfare Benefits (CA) California relaxes some of the requirements for welfare for victims of abuse.

Getting California Sponsored Medical Care & Benefits
Has special programs for children, immigrants and low income people who need medical care and medical benefits.

Asian American/Asian Pacific Islander Websites
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese help organizations.  Links to legal help and other social services throughout the United States.

Free Directory of Asian Pacific American Organizations
You must fill out their online form and then Phillip Morris Co. will mail you a hardcopy.

Organization Of Chinese Americans National Chapter  (202) 223-5500
O.C. is an Asian American civil rights group based in Washington D.C with 41 chapters throughout the nation. They educate Asians about issues that affect their lives and encourage them to become citizens and vote. If the OCA cannot help you with your problem, they will direct you to other agencies that can.  For a free copy of Asian help directories click here.

Help For Immigrant & Refugees Throughout The US

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Hispanic


The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
This non-profit group protects and promotes the civil rights of the more than 35 million Latinos living in the United States. They are national in scope and have offices in AZ, CA, GA, IL, NM, TX and Washington DC. Call them even if you live in another state.

United Way Help Line  (For All 50 States, DC & Puerto Rico)
Choose your state, select your city, and look up help agencies galore!!! Their stellar search engine can lead you to any social service topic you can think of.  For the best results,  type in words like  "Hispanic and Social Services" or "Refugee and (the name of your topic)".

Receiving Public Benefits (CA)
Benefits for Aged or Disabled Immigrants: Supplemental Security Income and Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants.

Summary of Farm Worker Rights (CA) (Spanish)

Immigration Legal Assistance Project  (LA County)
The Immigration Legal Assistance Project provides advice and consultation on immigration law, and can help you prepare various immigration forms.

California Legal Resources
Scroll down for government agencies, statutes, case law and groups that protect farm workers.

Help For Immigrant & Refugees Throughout The US

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