We have listed URLs for some of the most useful immigration related sites for your benefit. Please inform the webmaster if you want us to add a link or if a posted link does not work. Thank you!

Department of Homeland Security
The new department's first priority is to protect the nation against further terrorist attacks. Component agencies will analyze threats and intelligence, guard our borders and airports, protect our critical infrastructure, and coordinate the response of our nation for future emergencies.

Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS)
On March 1, service and benefit functions of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) transitioned into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS).

Border and Transportation Security (BTS)
On March 1st, the Department of Homeland Security, through the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security, assumed responsibility for securing our nation's borders and transportation systems, which straddle 350 official ports of entry and connect our homeland to the rest of the world.

Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE).
On March 1, 2003, functions of several border and security agencies including the U.S. Customs Service, Federal Protective Service (FPS), and former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) were transferred into the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security within the Department of Homeland Security. As part of this transition, these agency functions were reorganized into the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), an agency of the Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the laws regulating the admission of foreign-born persons (i.e., aliens) to the United States and for administering various immigration benefits, including the naturalization of qualified applicants for U.S. citizenship.

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) is the national bar association of over 3,900 attorneys who practice immigration law.

US DOS Bureau of Consular Affairs
Contains Visa information, Passport information, Health information and links to several other useful related sites.

Department of State
The Department of State is the lead US foreign affairs agency. It advances US objectives and interests in shaping a freer, more secure, and more prosperous world through formulating, representing, and implementing the President's foreign policies.

Department of Labor
DLO has developed its Web Site to make information about the Department, its programs, and the laws and regulations it administers widely available and easy to access.

Social Security Administration
Established to give financial protection to Americans at times of retirement, disability and death and to family members.

Electronic Embassy
The Electronic Embassy links the staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community to their constituencies in business and industry, education, the press and government.

United States Department of Justice
Committed to enforcing law and administering impartial justice for all Americans. To lead in the prevention and control of crime and the appropriate punishment of offenders. To enforce US immigration law with fairness.

American Immigration Law Foundation
Established to promote public understanding of immigration law and policy through education, policy analysis, and support to litigators.

Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
Organization promoting the exchange of students and scholars to and from the United States. Source for good advocacy pieces on the benefits of international students / scholars to U.S.

Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS)  Commitment to protect the public by ensuring that nurses educated in countries other than the United States (U.S.) are eligible and qualified to meet licensure and other practice requirements in the U.S.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
here to speak out for just and humane solutions to migration crises and their root causes, both nation and international; to work with Lutherans and others to turn solutions into reality; and to encourage citizens to take part in shaping just and fair public policies, practices and laws.

The National Immigration Forum
The purpose of the National Immigration Forum is to embrace and uphold America's tradition as a nation of immigrants. The Forum advocates and builds public support for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees and that are fair and supportive to newcomers in our country.

The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers League
a network of immigration lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers, and legal workers who work to end unlawful immigration practices, to recognize the contributions of immigrants in this country, to promote fair immigration practices, and to expand the civil and human rights of all immigrants, regardless of their status in the United States.

United States Information Agency
USIA's mission is to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions and their counterparts abroad.