In reply to Timothy C. Schenks.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) is a separately incorporated nonprofit that is not a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) of the LCMS. They are a pan-Lutheran organization that works independently of any Lutheran church body yet retains the name “Lutheran” as part of the name of the organization. Please contact LIRS (www.lirs.org) with any questions you may have about how they are handling the immigration process.