We are currently working on 5 major programs:
Immigration informational Session
The informational sessions are intended to help provide answers to questions about immigration laws—family petitions, permanent resident and citizenship processes and applications, etc. Each session, featuring about two to four immigration attorneys, is scheduled to last between one to three hours, with a target audience of about 200 low-income immigrants and refugees, especially Africans.
Held four times a year, this program is designed to serve about 800 people.
See schedule.
Immigration Clinic
AIS is collaborating with a number of volunteers and partners to provide free legal immigration advice clinic to low-income African immigrants and refugees in the Northwest suburbs of Hennepin County, beginning March of 2011.
The clinic will provide an opportunity for individuals and families to get brief legal advice and assist with basic immigration forms. Scheduled for three hours (every Tuesday) in Brooklyn Center, and an hour (every Thursday) in Minneapolis, each immigrant or refugee is paired with an immigration attorney for about an hour.
This program is designed to serve about 150 low-income African immigrants and refugees yearly. It is structured on a first-come, first-serve basis.
See schedule.
Volunteer Corps Development
To sustain our programming efforts, AIS has launched a mass volunteer recruitment program, to attract individuals of diverse backgrounds, covering current and future program and service areas, to commit to working on one of our programs in four categories: one month, three months, six months, and a year.
This program is designed to recruit and serve about 50 volunteers per year, contributing an average of five hours per month. Volunteers are provided opportunities to positively impact an underserved immigrant and refugee population and, if applicable, learn leadership skills, while strengthening and expanding the reach of AIS’ programs and services.
This process includes orientation, training, and certification.
For further information, please email us at volunteer@aisusa.org or contact our Volunteer Coordinator (Noble Fahnbulleh) at 612-280-4695.
See schedule.
Computer & Capacity Learning Center
Details Coming Soon
Minnesota Health Care Program (MHCP)*
Details Coming Soon
* MinnesotaCare, GAMC, and MA
