IAC NEWS & EVENTS

The South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc., in collaboration with the Immigrants' Assistance Center (IAC), hosted a Know Your Rights Portuguese Elder Forum. The keynote Speakers were the following: Natacha Salemme, Director of Money Manager Program at...

It takes a village, a region, and even the online community to help provide social services today. As government funding shrinks under increasingly tighter budgets, SouthCoast-based nonprofits are relying all the more on private donors, community foundations,...

NEW BEDFORD — The Immigrants’ Assistance Center is set to host a DACA information and renewal session and two other community organizations are also available for renewal assistance. “We’re trying to get as many applications through as possible,” said Helena DaSilva...

It is hard to know numerically how many Portuguese could face deportation due to President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — a reprieve for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children — but...

Pricilla Gamboa, 21, lives in Fairhaven, goes to Bristol Community College and volunteers. Luis Gomez, 27, has his driver’s license, graduated from Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech and is in a five-year electrician apprenticeship program. Yet Gamboa and Gomez have more in...

NEW BEDFORD — Uma angariação de fundos realizada no passado dia 10 de Agosto a favor do Centro de Assistência ao Imigrante reuniu mais de 200 pessoas e rendeu cerca de $30 mil para programas destinados a ajudar a comunidade imigrante a superar barreiras culturais e...