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The group’s New Americans Program worked with the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement and nonprofit Global Refuge to help refugees in Raleigh, Asheville, Salisbury and multiple South Carolina ...
Several U.S. refugee resettlement organizations asked a federal judge on Monday to restore the U.S. refugee program, arguing President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension is unlawful and is ...
These refugees have been selected and approved to come to America already, deemed particularly vulnerable and in need of resettlement by both the United Nations Refugee Agency and the U.S ...
Religious organizations shoulder the bulk of refugee resettlement work in the United States. Out of the 10 federally funded national agencies that resettle refugees, seven are faith-based. “We’re not getting any useful guidance from the government right now,” said Mark Hetfield, president of HIAS, the Jewish refugee resettlement agency.
Groups need to raise a minimum of $2,425 per refugee to cover their initial 90 days of living expenses. Larger resettlement organizations make the matches. For Connecticut, federal officials told Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services in New Haven to expect about 130 arrivals between late November and January.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement plays a particularly important role within USRAP. Bringing refugees into the United States and processing their documents is quite a different thing from assisting those same refugees in living and working in a new and foreign culture. This is the task of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Across the country, refugee communities and resettlement agencies are bracing for the possibility that Trump will halt or curtail the U.S. refugee program – moves that would stymie thousands of ...
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]