APALRC Holds Community Partner Training Sessions on U-Visa Filing

Earlier this year, APALRC held several U-Visa Community Partner Trainings to educate community members of availability of and eligibility requirements for U-visa filings for victims of crime.
 
As part of this outreach initiative, APALRC has developed a brochure about the U-visa and translated the document into Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Urdu, and Vietnamese in  order to effectively reach out to different Asian communities and raise awareness of availability and benefits of a U-visa.

 

Historically, a number of reported crimes involving limited–English proficient Asian individuals has been significantly low despite the fact that they are often perceived as easy targets, largely due to factors like language and cultural barriers to reporting crimes, difficulty of navigating through the justice system, or fear of deportation.
 
In conjunction with the CVAP project, which helps victims with the process of applying for crime victims compensation in the District of Columbia, APALRC plans to augment its efforts in educating limited-English proficient Asian victims of crime of available resources, supporting them with navigating through the criminal justice system and immigration laws, and assisting them with seeking justice that they deserve.