Undocumented Student Services

At UC Santa Barbara, Undocumented Student Services (USS) is committed to fostering a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment for prospective and current undocumented students, students with mixed-immigration status families, and students from refugee backgrounds. USS practices a solution-focused, intercultural, intersectional, and social justice approach that provides personalized support, programs, services, and resources. USS offers general counseling, programming, legal services, support groups such as Empowerment Circle, UndocuQueer, and UndocuTrans. They also offer a Dream Lending Library to provide an opportunity for undocumented students to borrow books they may need, free of charge.