**New photo requirements for immigration documents

Welcome to the United States - A Guide for New Immigrants contains basic information that will help you settle in the United States and find what you and your family need for everyday life. It also summarizes important information about your legal status and about agencies and organizations that provide documents or essential services you may need.

The "Welcome to the United States" CD-ROM is available on the Macomb County Library's government computer workstation. This publication
of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, is a companion piece
to the booklet available from the MLP office (in English or Spanish)
and in other languages online at http://uscis.gov. The guide is
directed at new permanent residents and contains practical
information to help immigrants settle into everyday life in the
United States, as well as basic civics information that introduces
residents to the U.S. system of government.

Guide to Naturalization for people 18 and over who want to become citizens to help them understand the naturalization process.

Naturalization Self Test is a test of your knowledge of U.S. history and the structure of our government. This test is designed to be used as a study-guide only. You will also be evaluated on your ability to read write and speak English at your interview.

This paragraph contains nearly every sound in English.
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.

From Speech Accent Archive, Steven Wienberger, founder of the archive and a associate professor in the English department at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

  Coming to America is provided through an EL-Civics Grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth.

  Healthy Families -Thanks to a Health Literacy Grant from the AMA (American Medical Association) Foundation, MLP is able to provide this vital health literacy information for tutors and students through this web page. We also hope to build awareness among local health practitioners of the barriers to quality health care confronted by those who experience a lack of literacy and English language skills.

Employment Sites
The Michigan Department of Career Development
Michigan Works

For Help
Macomb County Community Service

Activities
 Activities for Adult Learners - great links for EVERYONE, not just new English speakers. Includes games, quizzes, vocabulary, even an interactive game and word study activities.
 Reading with your child - READ TO ME is a family literacy program that teaches parents and caregivers how to read to young children.

Links
Smoke Alarm Safety
Reading and word activities for your health.
Commercial Driver's License Training
Map Quest Roadmaps - maps for anyplace your heart desires. Great for using with map reading activities Great for studying map reading
Macomb Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped* -- You might be eligible for free books on tape if you have been diagnosed as having a reading disability by a doctor of medicine (M.D.) or osteopathy (D.O.).