{"id":9405,"date":"2024-07-25T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=9405"},"modified":"2024-07-25T21:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T21:04:39","slug":"washington-allows-undocumented-immigrants-to-apply-for-professional-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2024\/07\/25\/washington-allows-undocumented-immigrants-to-apply-for-professional-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington allows undocumented immigrants to apply for professional licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/community\/facing-race\/washington-undocumented-immigrants-professional-licenses\/281-7458f39e-2b7c-49bf-ad92-f1328a321bec\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9407\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-1.58.43\u202fPM-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-1.58.43\u202fPM-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-25-at-1.58.43\u202fPM.png 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>A new law went into effect Monday, July 1 that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for professional licenses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>It&#8217;s thanks partially to the hard work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ourcolleges.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communities for Our Colleges coalition<\/a> &#8211; a non-profit that advocated for the bill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__section article__section_type_text utility__text\">\n<p>Four women from the coalition have spent the last year testifying and sharing their stories. On July 1, as the new law went into effect, they felt a layer of certainty for their futures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.king5.com\/article\/news\/community\/facing-race\/washington-undocumented-immigrants-professional-licenses\/281-7458f39e-2b7c-49bf-ad92-f1328a321bec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wohw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9408,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions\/9408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}