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Here are some ways for you to help:
necessary legal support, the prevalence of modern day
slavery can be reduced in vulnerable populations—we
can all make a diference.
Look for victims, hidden in plain sight and report to
1-888-3737-888:
Amy Hewat is the US Anti-Traicking Specialist for
Evidence of being controlled
Evidence of an inability to move or leave job
World Relief’s Immigrant Legal Services Technical
Bruises or other signs of batering
Unit. World Relief is a faith-based international re-
Fear or depression
lief and development organization committed to
Non-English speaking
serving the most vulnerable populations through
Lack of passport, immigration or identiication documentation
Recently brought to this country from Eastern Europe,
Asia, Latin America, Canada, Africa or India
Find out what’s being done in your community to combat
traicking: Start with contacting your local church to ind out
if it has a ministry outreach to traicking victims. If your local
church does not have a ministry, ind out if there is a local task
force or other service providers engaged in anti-traicking.
World Relief can assist with training materials, and can connect local churches to outreach programs.
World Relief and Kathleen Leslie is the Director of
the local church. The organization currently works
on ive continents, in some of the most impoverished areas of the world. In the United States,
World Relief focuses on empowering local churches to serve the foreign-born, including providing resettlement and
immigration legal services to refugees, asylees, parolees, victims of
traicking and other vulnerable immigrants in twenty-four cities
around the country. For more information, please visit www.worldrelief.org.
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Volunteer your legal expertise: If you are familiar with immigration law and the process to apply for T and U Visas, and
you would like to volunteer your services, World Relief can
connect you to church-based legal service programs, World
Relief ield oices, and other non-proit organizations providing immigrant legal services and speciically T and U Visa assistance.
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If you are interested in expanding your legal expertise in immigration law as an avenue for assistance, World Relief provides
week-long intensive training in immigration law and focused
training on assisting victims in applying for T and U Visas.
Learn more
Visit Slaveryfootprint.org to ind out how we support
slavery through our consumption.
Visit DHS Blue Campaign for training resources at www.
dhs.gov/end-human-traiking.
Visit HHS Rescue and Restore Campaign for awareness
and outreach materials: htp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/resource/about-rescue-restore.
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Visit Polaris Project for updates on legislation by state at
www.polarisproject.org.
Together, with the right awareness, educational tools and
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22 U.S.C. § 7708 et seq. he Traicking Victims Protection Act
(TVPA) of 2000 was reauthorized and modiied by the Traicking
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPA) of 2003, 2005,
2008 and 2011.
C.F.R. § 214.11(a) (emphasis added).
8 U.S.C. Title 8; Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 101(a)
(15)(T). In order to be eligible for the T nonimmigrant status, each
applicant must demonstrate that he or she: is or has been a victim
of a severe form of traicking in persons; is physically present in
the United States on account of human traicking; has complied
with any reasonab