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During the Stay Home Stay Healthy order by the governor through May 4 during the COVID-19 outbreak, ACRS is offering limited essential services at ACRS offices to clients by appointment only and [...]

By Alexandra Olins, ACRS Director of Employment and Citizenship Services Last fall, ACRS spoke out against the huge fee increases for immigration services at USCIS proposed by the Trump [...]

By Alexandra Olins, Director of Employment and Citizenship Services at ACRS A recently proposed rule change from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would have [...]

Dear friends, After nearly 17 years away, I am thrilled to be back in the Pacific Northwest and to serve as ACRS’ new executive director. I want to take a moment to thank Diane Narasaki who [...]

Stories are being written every day at ACRS – stories of hope and opportunity, stories of recovery and healing, stories about building a new life in a foreign land, stories of immigrants and [...]

Dear Friends, Happy holidays! As we near the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, we can all take pride in where we have stood, met, rallied and marched in this challenging year. For many of [...]

Act now to stop S. 354, the RAISE Act! Senators Tom Cotton of Georgia and David Perdue of Arkansas have introduced the RAISE Act to cut legal immigration by half, reduce green cards to family [...]

By Caitlin Foster, Americorps Citizenship Aide Le Troung Cao calls the United States “The Freedom Country.” After years of dreaming of a nation where, as he says, “you have freedom of speech, [...]