2013 Revised Code of Washington
Title 74 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
74.08A Washington WorkFirst temporary assistance for needy families.
74.08A.130 Immigrants -- Naturalization facilitation.
RCW 74.08A.130 Immigrants — Naturalization facilitation.
The department shall make an affirmative effort to identify and proactively contact legal immigrants receiving public assistance to facilitate their applications for naturalization. The department shall obtain a complete list of legal immigrants in Washington who are receiving correspondence regarding their eligibility from the social security administration. The department shall inform immigrants regarding how citizenship may be attained. In order to facilitate the citizenship process, the department shall coordinate and contract, to the extent necessary, with existing public and private resources and shall, within available funds, ensure that those immigrants who qualify to apply for naturalization are referred to or otherwise offered classes. The department shall assist eligible immigrants in obtaining appropriate test exemptions, and other exemptions in the naturalization process, to the extent permitted under federal law.
[2009 c 518 § 6; 1997 c 58 § 204.]
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