WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says the U.S. refugee admissions program won’t be suspended until next week and has told resettlement agencies to continue scheduling arrivals through then. The department said Thursday that arrivals can continue until July 12, when a cap of 50,000 refu...
“To meet this commitment, we are considering the full range of legal pathways to the United States and that includes U.S. refugee admissions program, parole and immigrant and non-immigrant visas,” the official told reporters. The official also said the commitment to take in 100,000 Ukrainian...
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration suspended the refugee program, prompting refugee admissions to plummet to 27,000 in fiscal year 2002, a record low at the time. Admissions remained at that historic low level in 2003, but increased later in the Bush presidenc...
Since 2017 the Trump Administration has passed a series of Executive Actions targeting the United States Refugee Admissions Program, seeking to ban groups of refugees the Administration deems to be a national security threat. In addition President Trump has exercised his authority to reduce the annual...
Executive Summary\n1This report analyzes the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), leveraging data from a national survey of resettlement stakeholders conducted in 2020. 2 The survey examined USRAP from the time that refugees arrive in ... DM Kerwin,M Nicholson - 《Journal on Migration & Human...
Mr. Trump last month capped refugee admissions at 45,000 for the year that started Oct. 1, a significant cut from the 110,000 limit put in place a year earlier by President Barack Obama. The actual number admitted this year could be lower than 45,000, since the cap sets a maximum lim...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- TheUnited Stateson Monday lifted a ban on admissions to refugees from 11 countries that it identified present a high security risk, while announcing new vetting measures. The changes came after a 90-day review by theWhite Houseof refugee admissions from the De...
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It also suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days and blocks all citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries considered high-risk – Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — from entering the United States for 90 days. AAPIs Donald Trump India USLeave a Comment on “As Asian ...
USCIS today announced the opening of an international field office in Quito, Ecuador, on Sept. 10. The Quito Field Office will focus on helping reunite individuals with their family members already in the United States and increasing refugee processing capacity ...