U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services awards ACCESS second round of funding

posted on: Jan 30, 2016

By Sherri Welch

Crain’s Detroit Business

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has awarded Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Dearborn grants totaling $250,000 to provide citizenship services to eligible refugees and immigrants in Southeast Michigan.

The grant to ACCESS was one of 40 awarded to private and nonprofit organizations, out of more than 160 applications.

ACCESS, which claims to be the country’s largest Arab-American nonprofit, will provide citizenship preparation and naturalization application services to legal permanent residents with the new grant funding.

The new grant marks the second round of funding the federal department has awarded ACCESS  to provide citizenship services since 2013.

With the $176,727 federal grant it received in October 2013, ACCESS has provided 450 students with instruction in English as a Second Language and 151 students with citizenship instruction. Of the total, 181 of those people have become naturalized U.S. citizens, it said in a release.

Source: www.crainsdetroit.com