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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, created with the passing of the United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212).
Oregon will welcome at least 1,200 Afghan refugees by September. On Monday, state lawmakers approved an additional $18 million to support the effort.
Beyond just suspending future refugee admissions through the resettlement program, the administration issued a memo on Jan. 24 to resettlement agencies to terminate services for their refugee ...
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.
The Refugee Act of 1980, which established the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, developed a comprehensive program for domestic refugee resettlement, pinpointing voluntary agencies as a necessary and needed entity for refugee resettlement in the United States. [9]
Refugee communities and agencies are bracing to see whether Trump again curtails the U.S. resettlement program. Refugees and resettlement groups brace for a second Trump presidency Skip to main ...
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.