WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday (Jan 19) launched a program to encourage ordinary Americans to sponsor refugees as admissions languish despite record displacement around the world. In what he billed as the biggest innovation in US refugee resettlement in four decades, Secretary
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday launched a program to encourage ordinary Americans to sponsor refugees as admissions languish despite record displacement around the world.
Volunteers, who will not be compensated, will need to demonstrate they can provide US$2,275 per refugee for three months to help with basics such as winter clothing, furniture and security deposits for housing as the new Americans seek work. But despite America's history of immigration, only 6,750 refugees were resettled in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, due to long delays in processing and verification of claims.
"The Biden administration must prioritise the streamlining of refugee admissions, which remain regrettably low this fiscal year," she said in a statement.
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