Know Your Rights Resources for Immigrants, Refugees, and Advocates

This 2025 OIRA resource webpage is intended to inform and support community members, City departments, and community-based organizations, partners, and service providers who are working to support immigrant and refugee communities in Seattle and Washington state and help keep all our residents safe. This webpage includes resources and events created by OIRA and local and national partners and is organized in the following issue areas:  

  • Know Your Rights
  • Immigration Policy Changes
  • Local Legal Service Providers & Advocacy Organizations
  • Asylum-related Resources
  • Worksite Raids
  • Family Safety Planning

Our resource list is not intended as legal advice. Please contact an attorney with any legal questions.

Know Your Rights  

  • Keep Washington Working (Spanish), Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network – A Washington state law passed in 2019 to enhance public safety, promote fairness to immigrants, and protect the privacy and civil rights of all Washington residents. 
  • We Have Rights, ACLU, Immigrant Defense Project, and others – A campaign translated into seven languages to prepare for and safely defend your rights during encounters with Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). 
  • Advisory to Nonprofit Organizations and Social Services Providers Regarding Immigration Enforcement, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) – Information for nonprofit partners, social services providers, and other agencies about how you can protect your clients if immigration enforcement agents come to their building/facility or otherwise try to apprehend their clients or community members present at their building/facility. 
  • Know Your Rights, NWIRP – A compilation of resources to help you understand your rights when interacting with various law enforcement officials and officers. 
  • Know Your Rights Under the U.S. Constitution – No Matter Who Is President, National Immigration Law Center (NILC) 
  • Know Your Rights Flyers, Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) – These flyers help you understand your rights in different situations where you may encounter immigration enforcement officers, including at home, at work, in your car, at the airport, and in public spaces. Available in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, French, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Dari, Runasimi, and Amharic. 
  • Know Your Rights Toolkit, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) 
  • Know Your Rights, National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) – A guide to your basic rights as an undocumented immigrant living in the U.S. 
  • Preparing for Changes in Federal Immigration Policies, Washington DSHS Office of Refugee and Immigrant Assistance (ORIA) – ORIA’s list of potential policy changes that will impact immigrant and refugee communities in Washington and information about rights that all people have regardless of immigration status. 

 

Immigration Policy Changes 

 

Local Legal Service Providers & Advocacy Organizations 

Asylum-related Resources  

  • Informational Videos for Asylum Seekers, OIRA and NWIRP – This series of informational videos is intended for asylum seekers living in Seattle or Washington state to help them navigate the immigration and asylum process. Videos are available in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
  • Migrant and Asylum Seeker Resource Guide (Spanish), OIRA – This document provides general information for migrant families who are seeking assistance from the City of Seattle. The resource guide includes essential phone numbers, information on protecting yourself against scams, free legal services, a list of immigration attorneys accepting new clients, English language classes, available shelters, King County Homelessness Authority Resources, and regional access points in King County. 
     

Worksite Raids  

Family Safety Planning 

Special thanks to the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) whose Immigrant Legal Protection Resource Guide informed this resource list. 
 

OIRA Training for Local Service Providers on Immigration


On January 28, 2025, the Seattle Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) hosted a free, virtual training for service providers on recent changes to immigration policy followed by questions and answers. Find out more and watch a video recording of our event below.

Immigrant and Refugee Affairs

Hamdi Mohamed, Director
Address: 700 5th Ave, Suite 1616, Seattle, WA, 98104
Mailing Address: PO Box 94573, Seattle, WA, 98124
Phone: (206) 727-8515
oira@seattle.gov

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