The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) increased funding for organizations that help immigrants obtain citizenship.
These grant opportunities are open to organizations that prepare immigrants for naturalization and promote civic integration through increased English proficiency, U.S. history, and civic education. In addition to traditional programs that fund citizenship and English language classes, the 2022 grant opportunities have been expanded to include creative and innovative approaches.
This represents an increase of $10 million dollars; with this increase, $20 million dollars will be allocated this year to the Citizenship and Integration Scholarship Program.
Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas stated that: “Through our Citizenship and Integration Scholarship Program, we are helping to provide integration services to non-citizens on their path to becoming U.S. citizens.”.
The program supports various organizations with projects that help immigrants, and the resources are divided into four opportunities:
*Citizenship instruction and naturalization application services: This opportunity will fund public or non-profit organizations that provide citizenship instruction and naturalization application services to immigrants.
*Community and Regional Integration Network Scholarship: will provide extended integration services with a focus on individualized programming for certain immigrants who have entered the United States under different programs.
*Regional Center Program: is designed to fund regional or state citizen support networks that develop capacity among their affiliates or members to provide direct preparedness services.
*Citizenship Education Innovations Program: USCIS will award this type of grant to organizations that promote creative approaches to preparing immigrants for naturalization and encourage the civic, linguistic, and cultural integration of immigrants into their communities.
Please note that all applications must be submitted by August 5. Finally, the USCIS Citizenship and Integration Grant Program, in operation since 2009, has awarded 1,412 million pesos through 513 grants to organizations serving immigrants, providing citizenship preparation services to more than 300,000 immigrants in 39 states and the District of Columbia.
News report based on information from: USCIS
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