Know Your Rights Resources for Immigrants, Refugees, and Advocates

This 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:  

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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • 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 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. 

 

 Legal Support: Local Legal Service Providers & Advocacy Organizations 

 

Immigration Policy Changes  

  • Immigration Policy Tracking Project – This project catalogues every known Trump administration immigration policy, attaches the source documents, and highlights all new 2.0 policies. 
  • FAQs: How Denaturalization Works, Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) – 
    What you need to know about the Trump administration’s recent focus on denaturalization. (August 2025)
  • Recent Policy Changes for Refugees, International Refugee Assistance Project – Learn about the latest policy changes affecting refugees and asylum seekers, with Know Your Rights guidance to follow as well.
  • Policy Information for Muslim Immigrants, Muslims for Just Futures - See how sweeping policy changes like the travel ban and other federal policy changes might affect your community.

 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. 

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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The mission of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs is to improve the lives of Seattle’s immigrant and refugee communities by engaging them in decisions about the City of Seattle’s future and improving the City’s programs and services to meet the needs of all constituents.