These self-help materials are designed for detainees to use in representing themselves when applying for some common forms of legal relief from removal. Please note they are written for detainees in Arizona and most were last updated in 2007.
These publications are meant to provide useful basic information about immigration law and detention in removal in Arizona and were created in the course of the Florence Project’s work. Under no circumstances do they constitute legal advice.
General Resources
- Integrating Social Services (a publication prepared in 2002 on how to integrate legal and social services to immigrants in ICE custody): English
- How to Protect Your Parental Rights from Detention: English | Español
- Resources for Asylees Released from Detention: Documents You Need to Work in the United States | Social Security Cards
Release from Detention
- Preparing for ICE Custody Review: English
- All About Bonds: English | Español
- How to Apply to the Department of Homeland Security for Release from Immigration Custody: English | Español
- Casas-Castrillon Bond Guide: English | Español
- How to Request Humanitarian Parole: English | Español
- Instructions for People Who Win Asylum and Are Released From Custody: English
Adjustment of Status
Appealing Your Case
- How to Appeal Your Case to the Board of Immigration Appeals: English
Asylum/Withholding of Removal/Convention Against Torture Relief
- How to Apply for Asylum and Withholding of Removal: English | Español
- Asylum application: English | Español
- Asylum declaration: English | Español
- Asylum documentation: English | Español
- Asylum organizing documents: English | Español
- Asylum testimony: English | Español
- Asylum “thinking-about-claim-worksheet”: English | Español
Cancellation of Removal for Permanent Residents (“LPRC”)
- How to Apply for “Cancellation of Removal for Certain Legal Permanent Residents”: English | Español
- LPRC Overview: English | Español
- LPRC Prep Checklist: English | Español
- LPRC Guide on Filling Out Application: English | Español
- LPRC Guide on Collecting Documentation: English | Español
- LPRC Guide on Letters to the Judge: English | Español
- LPRC Document Checklist: English | Español
- LPRC “Make Your Index Letter in English”: English | Español
- LPRC Supporting Document Index: English | Español
- LPRC Guide on Preparing Testimony: English | Español
- LPRC My Case: English | Español
- LPRC Sample Questions: English | Español
- LPRC Workbook: English pages 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Español páginas 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Cancellation of Removal for Nonpermanent Residents (“Ten-Year Cancellation”)
- Ten-Year Cancellation—Letters to the judge: English | Español
- Ten-Year Cancellation Documentation: English | Español
- What is Ten-Year Cancellation? English | Español
- How to Get Legal Status Through Your Family Member—Now or in the Future: English | Español
- How to Apply for Three- or Ten-Year Cancellation of Removal: English | Español
Expedited Removal/Reinstatement
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) For Haitians
United States Citizen
- Are You a United States Citizen?: English | Español
- U.S.C. Attachments for English and Spanish Booklets: English | Español
- U.S.C. Chart: English | Español
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