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In FY 2024, the U.S. resettled 100,034 refugees—the highest number in 30 years and about nine times the number resettled in FY 2021. The 2024 tally is a reason to celebrate and a reminder that ...
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 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.
This table lists the number of refugee arrivals by each fiscal year along with the ceiling. Since the United States created a refugee resettlement program in 1980, their has been a ceiling on the number allowed. The years where the number of refugees admitted surpassed the ceiling was in: 1992 and 2017. [10] Table source: [11]
The pathways include the U.S. refugee resettlement program, which provides a road to citizenship, as well as existing visa avenues and a relief program known as "humanitarian parole," which allows ...
The US resettled more than 900 refugees in May compared to just 272 the month before and the highest number since September 2020. Refugee resettlements tripled in May for the highest total in 2021 ...
In addition, as of April 2024, roughly 7,000 immigrant children are housed by facilities under the supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement's (ORR) program for Unaccompanied Children (UC). [5] For the FY 2023, the ORR reported 118,938 unaccompanied children referrals from DHS to be processed into the UC program. [5]
Fewer than 10,000 refugees will be resettled by October, the lowest since at least 1975 and far below the cap of 62,500 set by President Joe Biden.