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N21, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 (NCFRMI Act) to manage the affairs of refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in Nigeria. The agency is one of the six agencies under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. [1] It is headed by a Federal Commissioner. [2 ...
No One Left Behind (NOLB) is a veteran-adjacent nonprofit focused on ensuring America keeps its promise to its SIV (Special Immigrant Visa) allies. [2] The nonprofit evacuates Afghan and Iraqi SIV applicants to safety, supports their resettlement in the United States as new Americans, and advocates on their behalf before Congress and the White House.
The US admitted more than 10,000 Afghan refugees from the United Arab Emirates, which became a temporary host to them on behalf of other nations. However, nearly 12,000 refugees remained in the Abu Dhabi facility as of August 2022. Refugees began to protest the slow and opaque resettlement process and the living conditions. [82]
Following the evacuation of Afghanistan in August 2021, USCRI, with funding from the Office of Refugee Resettlement, operates the Immigrant Legal Services for Afghan Arrivals (ILSAA) program, which provides Eligible Afghan Arrivals (EAAs) across the country with free legal services to help them navigate the U.S. legal immigration system, this ...
Champtala is a camp in Afghanistan that hosts Afghan refugees who returned from Pakistan. Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia accommodated Indochinese refugees between 1979 and 1996. Mae La refugee camp in Thailand hosted around 40,000 Burmese in 2020, most whom were Karen ethnicity. It is the largest of a series of refugee camps coordinated by ...
Afghan diaspora refers to the Afghan people that reside and work outside of Afghanistan. They include natives and citizens of Afghanistan who have immigrated to other countries. The majority of the diaspora has been formed by Afghan refugees since the start of the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979; the largest numbers temporarily reside in Iran .
Section 1244 of this legislation, entitled "Special Immigrant Status for Certain Iraqis", as amended by section 1 of Public Law 110-244, enacted on January 3, 2008, authorizes 5,000 Special Immigrant Visas (The Kennedy SIV Program for Iraqi Nationals Who Worked for or on Behalf of the U.S. Government) per annum for Iraqi employees and/or contractors for fiscal years 2008 through 2012.
[72] [73] The UNHCR has traditionally seen resettlement as the least preferable of the "durable solutions" to refugee situations. [74] However, in April 2000 the then UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, stated "Resettlement can no longer be seen as the least-preferred durable solution; in many cases it is the only solution for ...