Changing Lives: The Effects of Receiving Approved Legal Permanent Residency for U Visa Victims and VAWA Self-Petitioners |
Introduction and Consent Form
Hello Recipient,
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project at the Washington College of Law, American University. We are seeking your help in participating in this survey and distributing it widely to other professionals working with immigrant victims. Our goal is to document how attaining legal immigration status changes immigrant crime victims and their children’s lives.
Please complete this survey by December 10, 2018 at 5 p.m. EST.
The information gained from your participation in this survey will be published and made available for use by NIWAP and experts in the field working with immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, child abuse and other crimes. Understanding more about how the lives of victims and their children change at various stages of the immigration process, from filing, to attaining work authorization, to ultimately receiving lawful permanent residency will provide powerful information to support training for judges, prosecutors, police, attorneys and victim advocates across the country.
This information will also provide important insight into immigrant victims’ experiences that will support ongoing and future public policy efforts to improve legal protections, social services, health care and access to the public benefits safety net for immigrant crime victims and their children at both the state and federal levels. NIWAP is working with a talented young scholar from the University of Delaware who will be helping us conduct this survey as part of a summer research project. We will publish and distribute the results widely during the fall of 2016. Your participation in this process will help us learn how and the extent to which pursuing legal immigration status helps victims and their children heal and improve their lives. We are seeking help from attorneys, victim advocates, social workers, therapists and justice system professionals working with immigrant victims to fill out the survey based on what you have observed in your work with immigrant victims/survivors who have pursued VAWA self-petitions, VAWA cancellation/suspension and U visa cases.
Survey questions seek information about the types of abuse victims suffered, including immigration related abuse, and will ask about victims’ justice system, community, and social engagement, enhanced economic security, improvements that affect children as well as improvements in emotional and physical health.
The survey seeks numerical data on clients you worked with collectively without any identifying information. When the survey questions call for stories, your perspective, or examples from individual victim’s cases, please do not include any names or identifying information. All information possessing these aspects will be discarded. Please understand, your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. You may stop at anytime if necessary. The results of this survey, we hope, will spur more research on this topic in the future. We thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in this survey and forwarding it to other service providers. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact (202) 274-4457 or hm3410a@student.american.edu
Thank You.
The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project at the Washington College of Law, American University. We are seeking your help in participating in this survey and distributing it widely to other professionals working with immigrant victims. Our goal is to document how attaining legal immigration status changes immigrant crime victims and their children’s lives.
Please complete this survey by December 10, 2018 at 5 p.m. EST.
The information gained from your participation in this survey will be published and made available for use by NIWAP and experts in the field working with immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, child abuse and other crimes. Understanding more about how the lives of victims and their children change at various stages of the immigration process, from filing, to attaining work authorization, to ultimately receiving lawful permanent residency will provide powerful information to support training for judges, prosecutors, police, attorneys and victim advocates across the country.
This information will also provide important insight into immigrant victims’ experiences that will support ongoing and future public policy efforts to improve legal protections, social services, health care and access to the public benefits safety net for immigrant crime victims and their children at both the state and federal levels. NIWAP is working with a talented young scholar from the University of Delaware who will be helping us conduct this survey as part of a summer research project. We will publish and distribute the results widely during the fall of 2016. Your participation in this process will help us learn how and the extent to which pursuing legal immigration status helps victims and their children heal and improve their lives. We are seeking help from attorneys, victim advocates, social workers, therapists and justice system professionals working with immigrant victims to fill out the survey based on what you have observed in your work with immigrant victims/survivors who have pursued VAWA self-petitions, VAWA cancellation/suspension and U visa cases.
Survey questions seek information about the types of abuse victims suffered, including immigration related abuse, and will ask about victims’ justice system, community, and social engagement, enhanced economic security, improvements that affect children as well as improvements in emotional and physical health.
The survey seeks numerical data on clients you worked with collectively without any identifying information. When the survey questions call for stories, your perspective, or examples from individual victim’s cases, please do not include any names or identifying information. All information possessing these aspects will be discarded. Please understand, your participation in this survey is completely voluntary. You may stop at anytime if necessary. The results of this survey, we hope, will spur more research on this topic in the future. We thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in this survey and forwarding it to other service providers. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact (202) 274-4457 or hm3410a@student.american.edu
Thank You.