Fact Sheet: Congress Must Restore Access to Needed Resettlement Services for Arriving Afghan Parolees

26 Jul 2024

On September 30, 2023, Congress failed to update legislation (as it had done previously in 2022) to extend authorization for newly-arriving Afghan humanitarian parolees to access key refugee services and mainstream benefits. Even as benefits were retroactively restored to arriving Ukrainian parolees in an April 2024 supplemental funding package, Congress failed to include the same fix for Afghans. As thousands ... Read More
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Thea Holcomb

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