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27 Refugee Reports 1 (2006)

handle is hein.immigration/refgrpt0027 and id is 1 raw text is: R A News Service of U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Sefugee Reports VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY 2006 2005 STATISTICAL ISSUE 2005-2006 U.S. Refugee Program by Rachel O'Hara The United States continues to act as a global leader in offering resettlement to refugees in urgent need of du- rable solutions. Focuses of the current program include making more efficient processing systems, including se- curity reviews and medical examinations, increasing the capacity of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and of non-governmental organiza- tions (NGOs) to refer refugees in urgent need of resettle- ment, creation of a Refugee Corps to improve refugee adjudications, and assessing the resettlement needs of longstanding refugee populations. The U.S. Refugee Program has a 30+ year history of responding to the changing needs of refugee populations. During the Cold War, the program primarily resettled large groups from concentrated locations including Vietnam, the former Soviet Union, and former Yugoslavia. In 2002 and 2003, U.S. refugee admissions declined steeply, both as a result of new security procedures in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and the end of the mas- sive, steady, predictable flow of past refugee programs. Since then, admissions have shifted towards small-scale resettlement programs with nationalities of resettling refu- gees changing from year to year. Leadership changed at three relevant U.S. govern- ment agencies in 2005 and 2006. President Bush ap- pointed Ellen R. Sauerbrey to lead the Department of State's Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and Emilio T. Gonzalez as Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Dr. Nguyen Van Hanh resigned as the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services and will be replaced by Martha Newton. Overview of 2005 U.S. Resettlement Program: In fiscal year' 2005, the U.S. Refugee Program resettled about 53,800 refugees. Although not a significant increase over the FY 2004 total of 52,900, this does represent an 89 percent increase over FY 2003 admissions of 28,400 refugees. These higher admissions numbers reflect the maturation of several new processes and structures put in place after the September 11 attacks. During this fiscal year, the Program completed se- curity reviews for most cases on hold since September 11, 2001, admitting the refugees involved. The United States also provided necessary medical treatment to a large group of Hmong Lao residing in Wat Tham Krabok in Thailand. The flow of Meskhetian Turks from Krasnador Krai, Russia, accelerated and case processing for Vietnam- IN THIS ISSUE: Articles 2005-2006 U.S. Refugee Program ....................................... 1 Regional A rrivals ................................................................ . . 2 Comprehensive Immigration Reform .................................. 4 Hurricanes Devastate Refugee and Immigrant C om m unities ........................................................................ . . 6 USCRI Hosts Ellen Sauerbrey, Newly-Appointed Head of State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and M igration ............................................................................. . . 7 How the Millennium Challenge Account Fails Refugees .... 8 Statistics Temporary Protected Status, Eligible Groups and Registration Dates ............................................................... 2 Asylum Cases Filed with USCIS Granted, Denied or Referred, 2005 ................................................................... . . 12 Asylum Cases Decided by Immigration Judges, 2005 ....... 13 Asylum Cases Filed with USCIS: 1980-2005 .................... 14 Regional Refugee Ceilings and Admissions to the United States, 1993-2006 ..................................................... 15 Refugees Admitted to United States by Nationality ........... 16 Refugee, Amerasian, and Entrant Arrivals by State of Initial Resettlement, 2001-2005 ......................................... 18 Eligibility for Refugee Processing Priorities, 2004-2006 .... 19

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