For Librarians, Advocates & Educators
What this site is, how it is sourced, and text you can copy straight into your resource guide.
Please Note: We Publish Information, Not Legal Advice
Immigrant Ally publishes general legal information, not legal advice, and we are not a legal services provider — we do not take cases, give individual advice, or represent anyone. If you maintain a referral list of service providers, we do not belong on it. If you maintain a list of self-help or know-your-rights reading, we may be a good fit.
If you run a library research guide, a campus international-student page, a legal aid resource list, or a community organization's referral page, this page tells you what you need to decide whether to link to us — and gives you text you can copy. Everything here is free to use. You do not need our permission to link to any page, and you do not need to ask before quoting us.
On This Page
- What Immigrant Ally is, and what it deliberately is not
- How the content is written, sourced, and kept current
- Copy-and-paste descriptions in English, Spanish, and Russian
- The pages most often useful to the people you serve
- How to tell us about an error, or request a topic
📖 What This Is
A free, multilingual plain-language guide to U.S. immigration for the people it affects — not for lawyers.
- →Free to read, with no account, no paywall, and no registration. Nothing on the site asks a visitor for their name, status, or contact information in order to read it.
- →Published in English, Spanish, and Russian, with the full content set translated rather than machine-rendered on demand. Russian-language plain-language immigration material is scarce, which is often why organizations link to us.
- →Written for a general reader: short sentences, defined terms, and an explicit 'what this means for you' framing rather than statutory summary.
- →The site is ad-supported. We say so plainly here because resource-guide maintainers reasonably want to know before citing a source.
- →We are an information publisher, not a legal services provider, and we do not accept referrals or take cases.
🔍 How the Content Is Sourced and Maintained
The questions a librarian usually asks before adding a link.
- →Every topic page cites its official sources — USCIS, the Federal Register, DHS, EOIR, and the courts — and links to them directly so a reader can verify any claim.
- →Pages carry a 'last reviewed' date, and policy pages state explicitly when a rule is being actively litigated and may change.
- →A dated 'What's New' timeline tracks federal immigration policy changes with sources for each entry, which is often the most useful thing to link to because it stays current.
- →Where the law is unsettled, we say so and tell readers to verify with a legal organization rather than presenting a contested position as settled.
- →We correct errors. If you find one, the contact route is below and we would rather hear it from you than leave it up.
✍️ Copy-and-Paste Descriptions
Use any of these verbatim in your guide, or edit them freely. No attribution format is required.
- →SHORT (English): Immigrant Ally — free plain-language guides to U.S. immigration in English, Spanish, and Russian: know-your-rights, green card pathways, asylum, work permits, and a dated timeline of policy changes. https://immigrantally.com
- →SHORT (Spanish): Immigrant Ally — guías gratuitas en lenguaje sencillo sobre inmigración en EE. UU. en inglés, español y ruso: sus derechos, vías para la green card, asilo, permisos de trabajo y una cronología fechada de cambios de política. https://immigrantally.com/es
- →SHORT (Russian): Immigrant Ally — бесплатные руководства по иммиграции в США простым языком на английском, испанском и русском: ваши права, пути к грин-карте, убежище, разрешения на работу и хроника изменений в политике. https://immigrantally.com/ru
- →LONGER (English): Immigrant Ally is a free, multilingual resource explaining U.S. immigration law in plain language for the people it affects. It covers rights during encounters with police and ICE, more than 40 green card categories, asylum, work authorization, naturalization, the registration requirement, and Temporary Protected Status. Each page cites official government sources and carries a review date, and a dated timeline tracks federal policy changes as they happen. Available in English, Spanish, and Russian.
- →If you link to a specific topic rather than the homepage, link to the locale your readers use — /en, /es, or /ru — so they land in their own language.
🔗 Pages Most Useful to Link To
If you are adding one or two links rather than a section, these are the ones people actually need.
- →Your Rights (/en/rights) — what everyone in the U.S. is entitled to regardless of status, including during a police or ICE encounter.
- →What's New (/en/whats-new) — a dated, sourced timeline of federal immigration policy changes. The most useful link for a guide you cannot update often.
- →The Registration Requirement (/en/alien-registration) — who must register, who is already registered, and the penalties. Widely misunderstood and carries criminal exposure.
- →Emergency Plan (/en/emergency-plan) — a family preparedness walkthrough for households at risk of a detention.
- →Green Card Pathways (/en/green-card) — 40+ categories with eligibility, timelines, and step-by-step processes.
- →Avoid Scams (/en/avoid-scams) — notario fraud and the common schemes targeting immigrants.
📡 Syndicate Our Policy Timeline
If you maintain a page that has to stay current on immigration policy, you can pull our timeline instead of rewriting yours.
- →RSS feed (English): https://immigrantally.com/en/whats-new/feed.xml
- →RSS feed (Spanish): https://immigrantally.com/es/whats-new/feed.xml
- →RSS feed (Russian): https://immigrantally.com/ru/whats-new/feed.xml
- →Each item carries the full update text and its official sources, so a feed reader or embedded widget shows something useful on its own.
- →You are welcome to republish entries. Please attribute them to Immigrant Ally and link back to the entry URL so readers can check whether it has since changed.
📮 Corrections, Requests, and Reuse
We would rather be corrected than cited incorrectly.
- →Found something wrong or out of date? Tell us through the contact page and point to the specific page — accuracy complaints from practitioners get priority.
- →Need a topic we do not cover? The suggestion form takes anonymous submissions; we use them to prioritize what to write next.
- →Quoting or excerpting for a handout, class, or clinic is fine. Please link back to the page you drew from so readers can check whether it has since changed.
- →Please do not present our material as legal advice to a client, and do not remove the caveats about unsettled law — those exist because the law genuinely is unsettled.
Useful Links
What's New — policy change timeline
Dated, sourced entries on federal immigration policy changes.
Your Rights
Rights for everyone in the U.S., regardless of immigration status.
About Immigrant Ally
Who publishes this site and the editorial approach.
Contact
Report an error or reach the editorial team.
Suggest content
Anonymous form for requesting a topic.