Resources for New Americans

Government Information

City of Jacksonville
www.coj.net

FirstGov in Languages Other than English
www.pueblo.gsa.gov/multilanguage/multilang.htm

This site links directly to "Federal Citizen Inforamtion Center", a source for Federal Resources in other languages. Resources include business, civil rights, employment, family health, etc., in different languages.

Social Security Administration: Immigration
www.ssa.gov/immigration

Information for non-citizens and application process for new social security card in several languages.

This Nation: Tools for Citizens
www.thisnation.com/citizens.html

Provides factual information concerning government and politics. A source for important documents online.

United States Federal Government
www.firstgov.gov

Users should search for "immigration and naturalization" and related topics. Use left hand column for links to forms and useful information.

Health & Social Services Information

Center for Adult Learning-Jacksonville Public Library
jpl.coj.net/lib/adult_learning.html

Information for ESL students.

Children’s Health Insurance Program
www.insurekidsnow.gov

Children’s Health Insurance Program-Florida
www.floridakidcare.org

Immigration concerns, status and protection. Also in Spanish.

Florida Adult ESOL Task Force
www.floridaadultesol.org

Kids Care sign-up page.

Lutheran Social Services
www.lssjax.org

Refugee Health Links
www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/refugee/Links/links.html

University of North Florida: English Language Program
www.studyusa.com/factshts/unf.htm

Information about non-credit English courses for international students.

Immigration & Citizenship

American Immigration Law Foundation
www.ailf.org

Legal Help for Immigrants

Jacksonville Immigration Statistics
www.fairus.org/news/search.cfm

Information regarding the number of immigrants entering the United States and the local area.

Immigration Superhighway
www.immigration-usa.com/i_suphwy.html

Articles on immigration and immigrant topics and issues.

Immigration Tutorial
www.us-immigration.com/information/citizenship_tutorial

Practice Questions for the U.S. Citizenship Exam
sfpl4.sfpl.org/librarylocations/main/pracquest.htm

(Spanish and English)