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Chat Room - The Immigration Issues chat room is open 24/7. Feel free to drop in. You can even page someone to join you if you happen to stop in at a quiet moment. (These are becoming less and less frequent, but you never know!). We encourage all of you to e-mail us with your instant message/pager # so a full list of chatters can be provided on the site. This way, when you all come looking for someone to chat to about immigration issues, you can page someone. The Yahoo Pager, ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger are all free. You can even set one up solely for this purpose, so that you only turn it on when you are actually available and interested in chatting about immigration!

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You can chat privately with one person or freely with several in our room. And unlike paging back and forth, you get to use one window the entire time to better follow the conversation. You may also contact your editors to arrange for a transcript of your chat if you'd like. As always, please contact us if you have a special event that you would like to host or help out with and have formally scheduled.

Scheduled Online Events - Here you will find a calendar of scheduled events, such as the Shusterman chats, taking place on our site and around the Web. Sign up for Immigration Chat Reminders by putting "All Chats" or the name of a specific chat in the subject line of your e-mail.

Clubs and Support Groups - We have several types of online groups from resource to debate to support group to immigration film and book clubs!

Immigration Issues Forum - Join our forums for daily exchanges of news, views, thoughts, stories and information in Immigration Issues!  PLEASE NOTE:  You will need to register with Born Abroad unless you already have a Delphi account. There are two ways into our forum: Either through our Forum Page via this site, or straight from Delphi at http://immigration.knowitallmall.com/messagearchives/ab-immigration. We STRONGLY suggest joining about.com and entering that way, to get the benefits of membership and to avoid confusion. If you try to enter your Delphi i.d. in the Born Abroad window it won't work and the Born Abroad i.d. won't work in Delphi. Sorry! But really, it's very simple so long as you know this.

You can ALWAYS use an alias in all these community functions, of course! Just please be sure to remember that alias well and try to use a valid e-mail in case others want to contact you and so that Born Abroad can confirm your membership. You can sign up for an anonymous, free e-mail at Yahoo. Hotmail and many other places.

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Become a member of our site! If you joined the forum through an about.com site, you are already an about.com member. You can join several sites on about.com! You get your own webpage where you can place your favorite immigration links and tell us about yourself and all your interests, immigration related or otherwise. Born Abroad is working on various ways to offer special privileges to site members.

Feedback is welcomed by your editors! You can suggest links to us and voice your opinion, comments, suggestions, requests for this site. Sometimes it takes a while to get these things up, please be patient.

Also, look for Polls, Quizzes, Games, Contests and other Interactive Features coming soon!

If your question or feelings about a subject are too sensitive to discuss in chat or post on the forum you may contact us via your method of choice.