AALDEF has compiled data for an absentee ballot chart listing requirements for all 50 states and DC. For details regarding your state, use the magnifying glass (top right-hand corner of chart) and type in your state.
*Ballot requirement info was taken from https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-an
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6pm for our monthly immigration and DACA renewal virtual legal clinic. We’ll keep you up to date on the latest immigration updates. Register in advance: https://bit.ly/37TuhLl
For more information, contact:
Annie Wang
Director, Immigrant Justice Project
awang@aaldef.
Our democracy is at stake in the 2020 presidential election. We need your help to ensure that Asian Americans can exercise their fundamental right to vote.
On November 3, AALDEF will dispatch attorneys and volunteers to polling places across the country to document voter problems and the availabili
On Tuesday, September 22, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be in Manhattan’s Chinatown to celebrate National Voter Registration Day and to assist Asian Americans to register and vote in the 2020 elections.
AALDEF, a community partner of National Voter Registration D
Fay Chew Matsuda, a social worker, community activist, and former director of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MOCA) in Manhattan’s Chinatown, died on July 24, 2020 at the age of 71. We send our condolences to her husband, Karl; her daughter Amy; and the Chew and Matsuda families.
Fay serve
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined civil rights and pro-immigrant advocacy groups in applauding today’s U.S. Supreme Court 5-4 decision in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California that ruled in favor of hundreds of thousands of immig
Hundreds of thousands of people across the country have protested the killing of George Floyd, an African American man, by four Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. Asian Americans have shown their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by calling for racial justice and an end to po
For the June 2 primary elections, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) partnered with Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (SEAMAAC) to monitor several poll sites in South Philadelphia The election was conducted amidst uncertainty and heightened anxiety du
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) stands in solidarity with communities across the country protesting against police violence and the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
For too many decades, communities of color have been the targets of racist violence
Today, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and 44 Asian American groups and higher education faculty filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston to reject the claims that Harvard’s admissions policies intentionally discriminate agai
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) condemns the persistent use of the phrase “Chinese virus” by the president, elected officials, and media outlets to describe Covid-19 and the coronavirus. When President Trump cites the “Chinese virus” as the source of the current health a
New York City…Today, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled that the developers’ plans for four high-rise towers in Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Lower East Side violate the New York City Zoning Resolution and nullified the approvals needed for the proposed projects.
The case, Lower East Side Organ
New Rule Threatens Family-Sponsored Permanent Resident Status for Asian American Families Who Have Used Certain Essential Benefits
New York City…After the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted the nationwide stay on implementation of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s final publi
On December 27, 2019, AALDEF submitted a comment opposing the fee schedule proposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which would increase fees for adjustment of status, asylum, DACA renewals, and naturalization and also eliminate fee waivers. These proposed changes would adverse
On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, at 6 pm, join AALDEF and Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) for a special presentation on The Asian American Vote in Georgia in the 2018 midterm elections.
At the presentation, learn more about how Asian Americans voted in Georgia gubernatorial, senator
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 250 Asian American voters in the Nov. 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Louisiana. Asian Americans, primarily Vietnamese Americans, strongly favored the Republic
Following the oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court today over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) urges the Court to consider this case as one about people’s lives: those of DACA recipients, their lov
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated cases that will determine whether the administration can end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which has provided relief from deportation for more than 800,000 undocumented youth who have lived most of the
New York City… The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) today released preliminary results of its nonpartisan exit poll of more than 500 Asian American voters in the Nov. 5, 2019 elections in Virginia, Texas, and Pennsylvania. Asian Americans strongly favored Democratic candidate
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national civil rights organization, will conduct a nonpartisan multilingual exit poll to get a snapshot of Asian American candidate preferences, party enrollment, and issues of significance to Asian American voters in Lou
