Topic: U.S. Refugee Admissions Program

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Jan 19, 2023

New U.S. ‘Welcome Corps’ Builds on Private Resettlement Model

A Welcome Circle in Denver, Colorado, welcomes an Afghan family at the Denver airport on February 12, 2022. (Kabbalah Experience for HIAS) Welcome Corps, the first U.S. government program supporting private refugee sponsorship in nearly 40 years, will allow Americans to privately sponsor refugees from around the world.

Jan 5, 2023

HIAS: Biden Plan for Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan Asylum Seekers Outrageously Inequitable

HIAS: Biden Plan for Cuban, Haitian, and Nicaraguan Asylum Seekers Outrageously Inequitable HIAS assailed President Biden’s deeply flawed and outrageously inequitable plan to expand Title 42 border expulsions of asylum seekers and allow up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua who have sponsors in the U.S. to enter the country temporarily as humanitarian parolees – but only if they fly to U.S. airports.

Aug 31, 2022

In the Face of Uncertainty, Afghan Evacuees Lay Down Roots

Afghan evacuees Rana, Wali, and Hewad in their home on August 29, 2022 in Florida. Their family was resettled by Gulf Coast JFCS, a HIAS affiliate. (Zack Wittman for HIAS) Wali is building a new life — and a new business — in Florida with the help of HIAS affiliate Gulf Coast JFCS. But nearly a year after arriving in the U.S., he is one of thousands of Afghan evacuees still unsure when or how they will gain permanent legal status.