Rights and Responsibilities

Covers family reunification and adjustment of status regulations, as well as Selective Service requirements, tenants' rights and responsibilities, child protection and domestic violence laws, traffic laws and safety, and other U.S. laws that may clash with refugees' cultural practices or home country laws.

Chart of Basic Laws in the U.S. [Provided by Ethiopian Community Development Council]

Legal System [link to a lesson plan in the USCRI 2004 publication, Somali Bantu Community Orientation. Click here for a December 2006 version of the relevant attachment or here for the full publication.]

Click to see related lessons in the Overseas Service Provider Toolkit.

Most recent update to this page: September 28, 2007