We are excited to announce LIA will be embracing a co-directorship model, a healthier model with shared and equitable leadership, where we capture the gifts of each co-director to maximize their impact on our mission.

While the United States may not offer its freedoms to everyone who lives here, the people with intersecting, oppressed identities, like undocumented queer immigrants, who call this country home, are certainly the brave.

We've been busy! Read below for updates on our Asylum Clinic, legal team accomplishments, and more!

Using Afghanistan as a case study, this research paper will analyze what happens to a country when external support is revoked, how that results in instability and the flight of refugees from their home country, and what a refugee’s journey looks like as they seek asylum.

Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates Announces Leadership Transition and Executive Director Search

Minor policy changes to the Special Immigrant Visa Program could have a major impact on the lives of thousands of Afghan Nationals fleeing Taliban Rule.

New American Legal Clinic Intern Rachel Oostindie reflects on how her internship initiated a much deeper understanding of how the crisis in Afghanistan affects our neighbors and community.

Today, the VAF is at -$3,093.67, because the legal team at LIA has not stopped saying “yes, we will advocate for you” or “this will not cost you anything, because you have been through enough”. The legal team saw the need for victim advocacy more than double this year.

A year later, Taliban's return to power hinders life in Afghanistan. Food security is threatened by natural and political disasters.