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On January 20, 2025 President Trump signed Executive Order 14155: "Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program" Executive order. This executive order does the following: Entry into the United States of refugees under the USRAP be suspended. This suspension shall take effect at 12:01 am eastern standard time on January 27, 2025.
Since 1975, the United States has assisted in the resettlement of more than 3 million refugees. [2] Annual admissions of refugees to the United States since the 1980 Refugee Act was enacted have ranged from 27,100 to as many as 207,116. [1] In Fiscal Year 2019, Refugee and Resettlement Assistance comprised a discretionary budget of $1.905 billion.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs.
The United States was originally set to take in 110,000 refugees, as directed by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. US refugee admissions surpass Trump's 50,000-person cap Skip to main content
Each year, the President of the United States sends a proposal to the Congress for the maximum number of refugees to be admitted for the upcoming fiscal year, as specified under INA section 207(e). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This number, known as the "refugee ceiling", is the target of annual lobbying by both refugee advocates seeking to raise it and anti ...
The Biden administration is on pace to bring in 100,000 people through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in fiscal year 2024, which ends on Sept. 30, according to the document, which has not ...
The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...
The Biden administration plans to maintain refugee admissions to the United States at 125,000, according to a draft report obtained by CNN, and admit a larger share of refugees from the Western ...