Biden Administration to Raise Refugee Cap to 125,000 for FY2022

Washington D.C. – The U.S. authorities will increase the refugee admissions cap to 125,000 refugees within the subsequent fiscal 12 months beginning October 1, in line with a report back to Congress submitted by the Biden administration. The transfer is aligned with President Biden’s marketing campaign promise to reverse the historic cuts made to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) through the Trump administration.

The next is an announcement by Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, President and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, a nationwide refugee resettlement company and the U.S.’s largest-faith primarily based nonprofit devoted completely to serving weak immigrant communities:

“We welcome an elevated refugee admissions ceiling for subsequent fiscal 12 months given the pressing international want, retaining with President Biden’s marketing campaign promise. It is a vital sign that the US stays dedicated to restoring its international humanitarian management. Nonetheless, it should be accompanied by measures to guarantee that precise admissions attain that focus on.

Whereas the Biden administration raised the ceiling to 62,500 this fiscal 12 months, the US has solely resettled about 7,500 refugees via its formal program throughout that point. Understandably, 4 years of the Trump administration’s assault on the refugee program coupled with pandemic challenges have hamstrung federal rebuilding efforts. 

Elevating this cover with out dedicating important sources, personnel, and measures to streamline the method can be largely symbolic. It is important that we see extra refugee processing officers out within the discipline conducting the required interviews. If the pandemic poses challenges to doing so, the administration ought to implement twenty first century options like distant interviews to make sure refugees transfer via the appliance pipeline. The world has largely tailored to the human realities of COVID-19; we should guarantee refugee coverage and programming does the identical.

It bears repeating that refugees make our nation stronger in innumerable methods, and welcoming them embodies the very best of the American spirit. We’ve got a novel alternative to construct again the refugee program to satisfy the unprecedented want – with so many lives on the road, we should seize it.”
 

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