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Press Release

 

 

For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Gordon , 617-651-0841
Oct. 3, 2022 

**More Room to Improve: President, Congress Must Further Support Refugee
Resettlement**

**Washington, D.C.**- A report today indicates that the U.S. resettled
about 25,000 refugees in the fiscal year that ended Friday.

The preliminary figure from the State Department would represent more
than double the number of refugees the U.S. resettled in 2021: a record
low of 11,445. But it would fall far short of the 2022 "ceiling" of
125,000 - a cap that is unchanged for fiscal year 2023.

The number of refugees resettled through the Refugee Admissions Program
excludes at least 130,000 Afghans and Ukrainians who entered the U.S.
under humanitarian parole
or
as asylum seekers at the border, with no assurance of future permanent
status.

The reported increase in refugee interviews in the past year is large,
from 9,100 to 44,000. At full capacity, the program handled more than
100,000 interviews per year.

"There have been steps in the right direction compared with 2021, and
the final number for 2022 suggests a jump in resettlement in September,"
said

**Danilo Zak, Assistant Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at the
National Immigration Forum**. "We still have a long way to go. President
Biden and Congress must continue rebuilding and resourcing our
resettlement infrastructure."

Earlier this year, Zak and his fellow Assistant Vice President of Policy
and Advocacy Dan Kosten outlined a strategy for setting refugee
resettlement levels
.

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