Avoid Scams Resource Center
Want to educate people within your community on how to avoid immigration scams? Check out our Resource Center below! Please use these resources when providing information to your community. You can order or print the materials for free.
For more information on the Avoid Scams Initiative, questions about the educational materials below, or to provide feedback, please email Public.Engagement@uscis.dhs.gov.
Brochure
Provides information on:
- How to avoid becoming a victim of immigration service scams
- Where to find a free or low-cost attorney or a DOJ-accredited representative
- How to identify common immigration scams
- Where to report having been a victim
This brochure is currently available in the following languages:
- Amharic (PDF, 323.24 KB)
- Arabic (PDF, 390.21 KB)
- Chinese (PDF, 370.66 KB)
- Creole (PDF, 279 KB)
- Dari (PDF, 343.87 KB)
- English (PDF, 179.94 KB)
- Farsi (PDF, 346.39 KB)
- French (PDF, 280.52 KB)
- Hindi (PDF, 410.4 KB)
- Korean (PDF, 330.66 KB)
- Polish (PDF, 275.36 KB)
- Portuguese (PDF, 278.4 KB)
- Punjabi (PDF, 292.76 KB)
- Russian (PDF, 281.17 KB)
- Somali (PDF, 278.58 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 195.2 KB)
- Tagalog (PDF, 276.93 KB)
- Urdu (PDF, 346.79 KB)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 308.33 KB)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Fotonovela Series
As part of its ongoing effort to raise awareness about scams targeting the immigrant community, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has developed a series of “fotonovelas” in Spanish. The comic-book style stories are the FTC’s response to many complaints by immigrants about scams from Spanish speakers throughout the nation. The stories offer practical tips for how to identify and avoid common scams.
Please visit the FTC's website to order copies of the fotonovelas — for free — and distribute them in your community. You can access the FTC fotonovela on Unauthorized Practice of Immigration Law (PDF).
Widgets
English
Copy this HTML code and paste it into your web page to display this widget that will lead visitors to helpful Avoid Scams information on uscis.gov.
<img alt="Avoid Immigration Scams Widget " src="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/images/article-about-uscis/AvoidScams-Widget.gif" style="width: 171px; height: 299px;" title="Avoid Immigration Scams Widget " />
Spanish
Copy this HTML code and paste it into your web page to display this widget that will lead visitors to helpful Avoid Scams information on uscis.gov in Spanish.
<img alt="Evite Estafas de Inmigracion" src="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/images/article-about-uscis/AvoidScams-Widget-es.gif" style="width: 171px; height: 299px;" title="Evite Estafas de Inmigracion" />
Poster
Contains the USCIS UPIL graphic, provides information about our Web resource center and on how to contact USCIS.
This poster is currently available in the following languages:
- Arabic (PDF, 442.84 KB)
- Chinese (PDF, 618.12 KB)
- Creole (PDF, 467.95 KB)
- English (PDF, 175.35 KB)
- French (PDF, 420.27 KB)
- Korean (PDF, 410.82 KB)
- Polish (PDF, 420.65 KB)
- Portuguese (PDF, 468.38 KB)
- Russian (PDF, 427.02 KB)
- Somali (PDF, 421.5 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 178.12 KB)
- Tagalog (PDF, 420.58 KB)
- Urdu (PDF, 477.44 KB)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 423.06 KB)
Print PSA
The print PSA is available in the following languages:
- Arabic (PDF, 108.47 KB) (small) /Arabic (PDF, 633.25 KB)(large)
- Chinese (PDF, 145.94 KB) (small) / Chinese (PDF, 1.55 MB) (large)
- Creole (PDF, 1.18 MB)/ Creole (PDF, 142.81 KB)(small)
- English (PDF, 114.08 KB)(small) / English (PDF, 197.02 KB) (large)
- French (PDF, 1.18 MB) (large) / French (PDF, 116.64 KB) (small)
- Korean (PDF, 606.73 KB) (large) / Korean (PDF, 135.83 KB)(small)
- Polish (PDF, 1.2 MB)(large) / Polish (PDF, 128.36 KB)(small)
- Portuguese (PDF, 1.18 MB) (large) / Portuguese (PDF, 117.29 KB) (small)
- Russian (PDF, 1.19 MB) (large) / Russian (PDF, 128.07 KB) (small)
- Somali (PDF, 1.18 MB) (large) / Somali (PDF, 116.42 KB)(small)
- Spanish (PDF, 114.82 KB) (small) / Spanish (PDF, 1.19 MB) (large)
- Tagalog (PDF, 1.18 MB) (large) / Tagalog (PDF, 118.49 KB)(small)
- Urdu (PDF, 206.5 KB)(large) / Urdu (PDF, 145.81 KB) (small)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 624.47 KB)(large) / Vietnamese (PDF, 104.43 KB) (small)
Radio Public Service Announcement Scripts
Radio Public Service Announcement (PSA) scripts contain a 30- and 15-second script that can be used by any radio outlet.
Scripts for the radio PSA are currently available in the following languages:
- Arabic (PDF, 95.6 KB)
- Creole (PDF, 31.67 KB)
- English (PDF, 30.84 KB)
- French (PDF, 47.53 KB)
- Hindi (PDF, 98.88 KB)
- Korean (PDF, 106.1 KB)
- Polish (PDF, 103.78 KB)
- Portuguese (PDF, 36.78 KB)
- Russian (PDF, 106.48 KB)
- Somali (PDF, 37.44 KB)
- Spanish (PDF, 35.9 KB)
- Tagalog (PDF, 38.38 KB)
- Urdu (PDF, 96.24 KB)
- Vietnamese (PDF, 114.67 KB)
Radio Public Service Announcement
Radio Public Service (PSA) Announcement contains a 30- and 15- second spot that can be used by any radio outlet.
The radio PSAs are currently available in the following languages:
- English (15 second spot)
- English (30 second spot)
- Spanish (15 second spot)
- Spanish (30 second spot)
Web Video
Web video contains information about how to avoid becoming a victim of immigration service scams.
Billboard Transit Ads
The transit and billboard advertisement is currently available in a variety of styles. This information is currently offered in English.