City College and Citizenship

In the San Francisco Chronicle Jenna Lyons wrote about how City College in San Francisco offers the use of it's rooms on campus to the SF Pathway to Citizenship Initiative, so they can provide free assistance to anyone trying to navigate the citizenship process. The workshop walks people through the four to five step process that takes about two hours. The workshop is funded by the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs and Volunteers are attorney's that offer pro bono services, citizens that obtained their citizenship through this workshop, and other professionals. Also, translators are on site and they speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagalog, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Vietnamese. While going through the process at the workshop, if a person finds out that they may not be eligible for full citizenship at the time, then the attorneys offer one-on-one consultations with him/her to see if they qualify for other legal statuses, like holding a green card. According to this article, this workshop has been operating for five years and is being supported by the city and Mayor Mark Farrell himself.
    Picture from the event and posted on the article webpage.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Path-to-citizenship-goes-through-SF-City-College-12549254.php#photo-14987357