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This use of refugee admissions programs to further national interests is, unfortunately, not uncommon. Legislation regarding refugee admissions written after World War II excluded large numbers of refugees (including ninety percent of Jewish refugees) from being eligible for resettlement in the United States.
The Bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and the official currently acting in this capacity is PRM Acting Assistant Secretary Marta C. Youth. Youth has headed PRM since former Assistant Secretary Julieta Valls Noyes retired from the Foreign Service on October 4, 2024 [2].
The Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee and Parole Program is a U.S. refugee and parole program established in November 2014 by the Obama administration. [1] It is a refugee protection and family reunification pathway on which several thousand families rely and for which tens of thousands more families are technically eligible. [2]
The number of refugees admitted declined significantly, with only 11,814 admitted in the fiscal year 2020. [14] The Biden administration aims to increase the number of refugees accepted by setting higher caps for admissions. [15] In 2024 the Biden Administration maintained the 125,000 person cap on refugee admissions. [16]
Advocates and veterans accused Congress of abandoning Afghan refugees after a bill designed to resolve their legal status was left out of a year-end spending bill.
Applying for refugee status is a separate process from applying for entry as an economic migrant, and refugees may apply from their home country or within their first year of entering the United States. Spouses and children of those seeking asylum are also considered in the application, and unaccompanied children can also apply independently.
Of the USCIS immigration forms, decisions on the two forms Form I-130 (family-based immigration, the F and IR categories) and the widower subcategory for Form I-360 (special immigrants, the EB-4 category), must be appealed through the EOIR-29 (Notice of Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals from a Decision of an Immigration Officer) to the ...
President Joe Biden receives an operational briefing from U.S. Border Patrol, USCIS and ICE at the Brownsville Border Patrol Station on February 29, 2024.. The immigration policy of American President Joseph Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration, before implementing stricter enforcement mechanisms later in his term.