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Improving the Naturalization Process: Better Immigrant Integration Leads to Economic Growth

The process of obtaining lawful permanent resident (LPR) status, and ultimately U.S. citizenship, is often daunting. A new country, new rules, high costs, and little targeted support for new immigrants makes what should be a journey of exploration and opportunity one that may be frustrating and lonely.

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  • Fact Sheet

Citizenship Day 2012: Realizing the Potential of the Immigrant Vote

Publication Date: 
September 17, 2012
For many aspiring immigrants, achieving citizenship means full participation in civic life—and that means the right to vote. Every year, thousands of immigrants become naturalized U.S. citizens and...
  • Fact Sheet

Pew Analysis Highlights Immigrant Integration and Economic Contributions

Publication Date: 
March 7, 2012
Immigrants integrate into U.S. society over time and they contribute to the U.S. economy. These crucial yet often-overlooked facts are illustrated well by the Pew Hispanic Center’s latest...
  • Special Report

Improving the Naturalization Process: Better Immigrant Integration Leads to Economic Growth

Publication Date: 
September 19, 2011
Anyone who has ever attended a naturalization ceremony cannot help but be moved by the power of...
  • Fact Sheet

The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX III)

Publication Date: 
May 9, 2011
How U.S. Integration Policy Stacks Up Against Other Countries Integration is an often overlooked but key component of U.S. immigration policy. Successful integration of immigrants fuels their success...
  • Press Release

New Study on Immigrant Integration Compares and Ranks the United States, Canada, and Europe

February 28, 2011

Washington D.C. - In cooperation with the Immigration Policy Center, the British Council and the Migration Policy Group release a new study today which reviews and

  • Fact Sheet

The Ones They Leave Behind: Deportation of Lawful Permanent Residents Harm U.S. Citizen Children

Publication Date: 
April 26, 2010
Many people believe that only illegal immigrants are deported. However, thousands of long-term legal immigrants are deported each year. While some are deported for committing serious crimes, many...
  • Special Report

The Lasting Impact of Mendez v. Westminster in the Struggle for Desegregation

Publication Date: 
March 25, 2010
Years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended racial segregation in U.S. schools with Brown v. Board of Education, a federal circuit court in California ruled that segregation of school children...
  • Research and Analysis

Naturalization and Integration: Repairing our Broken Immigration System

Publication Date: 
December 3, 2009
Most Americans want immigrants to fully integrate in the U.S., and most immigrants want to be Americans and fully participate in social and civic life. We can expect naturalization and integration...
  • Fact Sheet

Sharing the Costs, Sharing the Benefits: Inclusion is the Best Medicine

Publication Date: 
July 22, 2009
As policymakers debate the scope and form of the health care reform package now taking shape in Congress, it is important to understand the role of immigrant participation in the current health care...
  • Research and Analysis

Extremists Hijack Immigration Debate: Increased Reports of Hate Crimes and Discrimination Aimed at U.S.- and Foreign-Born Latinos

Publication Date: 
May 30, 2008
Information and examples on how the immigration debate has spurred discrimination, hate, and violence.

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