Based on interviews and multilingual focus groups, researchers identify challenges faced by immigrant-serving organizations and health and human services agencies and recommend solutions.
With the expiration of the initial two-year temporary immigration status for Afghan evacuees, many immigration cases remain in limbo. This uncertainty has affected evacuees’ employment, housing, and mental health.
Urban and the Immigration Research Initiative surveyed people targeted for the $2.1 billion program that allowed immigrants without work authorization, and some others who fell between federal aid gaps, to get unemployment compensation if they lost work during the pandemic recession.
With nearly half reporting food insecurity, adults in mixed-status families are more likely to report material hardships than adults in families with other immigration statuses or in all-US-born families.
