VAAP exists to raise VT noncitizens’ awareness of and access to critical immigration legal support. We achieve our mission through statewide direct services, pro bono coordination, technical assistance, community education, and systems advocacy. Bridging between service providers and regulators across the state and region, VAAP educates the public on immigration issues and advocates for policies and practices that advance immigrants’ rights. Immigrants are VT's fastest growing working age demographic and in-migration has proven vital to VT's food systems and core agricultural economy. However, immigrants face signficant challenges that limit immigrant workforce integration including barriers to licensing, education, and language access; and fragmented immigrant services that create inequities and inefficiencies and make it harder for immigrants to learn about and access legal, social, and healthcare systems. Immigrant entrepreneurs lack culturally and linguistically appropriate resources to grow their businesses and often need burdensome collateral and/or borrower investment to secure capital funding. While we recognize the pressures on our state treasury, investment in VT workforce solutions comes at a crucial moment, given that the federal immigration landscape is ever changing. We envision a future VT where all noncitizens can enjoy their immigration and related legal rights and experience integration regardless of arrival circumstances or status.