Asylee and Refugee Resources from DOJ's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section

AILA's Refugee and Asylum Committee highlights some resources from DOJ's Immigrant and Employee Rights (IER) Section that may be useful to AILA members and their clients:

• Protecting Your Right to Work
  

  The INA prohibits employers from discriminating against U.S. citizens and other work-authorized individuals based on their citizenship, immigration status, or national origin. This IER flyer provides general information about the law and provides examples of employer discrimination and of unlawful discrimination in the E-Verify process.

• Telephone Interventions
  

  IER's telephone intervention program is a form of alternative dispute resolution. It allows a caller to IER’s worker or employer hotline to work informally with IER’s staff to resolve potential immigration-related employment disputes within hours or minutes, rather than months, without contested litigation.

  Intervention categories include: I-9 and document issues; E-Verify; Temporary Protected Status and Deferred Enforced Departure; asylee/refugee issues; citizenship status discrimination and national origin discrimination.

• Employment Rights and Resources for Refugees and Asylees
  

  This document provides resources on employment rights for refugees and asylees, including information on payroll and tax forms, Form I-9, E-Verify, protections against discrimination and unfair treatment, and more. The flyer also provide contact information for government agencies that refugees and asylees can reach out to with questions or problems. In Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Karen, Kayah,Nepali, Russian, SimplifiedChinese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, and Urdu.

• Information for Refugees and Asylees About the Form I-9
  

  This flyer is intended to help asylees and refugees complete the Form I-9 and to know their rights in this process.

• IER Webinars
  IER offers webinars for both workers/worker advocates and employers/HR professionals. IER also presents joint webinars with USCIS on employee rights during the E-Verify and Form I-9 employment eligibility verification process.
• Refugees and Asylees Have the Right to Work Information for Employers
  This flyer is intended to help employers understand issues that may come up during hiring and while completing the employment eligibility verification process (Form I-9 and E-Verify) for a refugee or asylee.