ILAP Maine

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WELCOME! The Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) provides free and low-cost immigration information and legal assistance to low-income Maine residents. ILAP helps Maine’s immigrants keep their families together, gain protection from persecution and domestic violence, attain residency and work authorization, and become proud U.S. citizens. ILAP builds stable families and improved opportunities, allowing Maine’s immigrants to contribute to their communities for generations to come. ILAP is proud to uphold our nation’s immigrant tradition.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/EVENTS

05/2012
ILAP welcomes Ron Kreisman to the post of Executive Director. Ron brings with him a passion for ILAP's work, a keen intellect and boundless energy. He is not an immigration attorney by training, but has spent the bulk of his career working on environmental issues in Maine and cares deeply about promoting and defending the rights of immigrants. Ron's full bio is available on our staff page.

04/2012
Thank you to everyone who contributed to ILAP's 8th annual CeleSoirée! Please visit our CeleSoirée page for photos and more from this year's event.

LATEST NEWS

03/2012
ILAP testifies at DHHS hearing on changes to Food Supplement benefits. ILAP and the Maine Equal Justice Partners submitted comments on a policy proposal written by DHHS to implement last year's Budget bill that changed benefits eligibility for immigrants. ILAP and MEJP sought to clarify that asylum seekers would be eligible for food benefits if they fall into a hardship category. Currently, noncitizens are eligible for food benefits if they are elderly, disabled, victims of domestic violence or fall into another hardship category.

02/2012
Great work by staff member Andi Summers on the State Advisory Committee on Bias-Based Profiling. Read the Committee's recent report to the Maine Legislature here.