Organizations that are part of the South Asian American Policy Working Group address and advocate around a range of policy issues, including:

• Preservation of the rights of South Asian immigrants who face challenges, targeting, exclusion, and discrimination by and within the immigration system
• Access to linguistically and culturally sensitive services and benefits, including those provided by state and federal government agencies, in the arenas of housing, employment, education, abortions and reproductive care, and affordable and holistic health care.
• Preservation of rights of South Asians facing exclusion, discrimination, surveillance, violence, harassment, transnational repression, trafficking, domestic abuse, criminalization, and targeting based on faith, national origin, caste, class, gender identity and expression, language proficiency, immigration and citizenship status, sexual orientation, ability or other protected characteristic
• Just and inclusive economy that provides workers with fair working conditions, good wages and benefits, expansive rights and power, safety and wellness, and access to benefits 
• Elimination of all forms, narratives, systems, and politics of hatred, authoritarianism, and supremacy and other types of oppression
• Protection of community members facing unanticipated crises such as pandemics, climate disasters, and other emergencies
• US foreign policy in South Asia and around the world that preserves human rights and democratic governance