Catholic Legal Immigration Network

Location

Silver Spring, MD

USCIS grant recipient

FY2022

About

Since 1988, Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), with headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, supports a network of more than 450 affiliates with diverse and in-depth subject-matter training, real-time updates, technical assistance, and best practices in myriad immigration topics, including citizenship instruction and naturalization application services. CLINIC's program areas of Capacity Building (“CB”), Training and Legal Support (“TLS”) and Advocacy are the primary services CLINIC provides to support the network in doing their best work within their communities. CLINIC was awarded its first USCIS National Capacity Building grant in FY 2010. With USCIS FY 2022 funding, CLINIC is implementing its Building Capacity Through Citizenship and Integration Project to work with four sub-applicants in Honolulu, HI, Passaic, NJ, Plano, TX, and Pomona, CA. The goal of this project is to expand the availability of high-quality citizenship preparation services for immigrants across the nation by building capacity and providing technical assistance. CLINIC will conduct quarterly meetings with the sub-applicants to share information and foster coordination of citizenship preparation and promotion services. CLINIC will also provide an ongoing full menu of technical assistance services, including project design, ESL/civics teaching tools and resources, cross-trainings between educational and legal staff, pre- and post-testing, teacher selection, curriculum development, naturalization law training, ask the experts service, website resources, monthly newsletter, email updates, and an annual conference.