The New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) supports and empowers
over 3 million immigrant New Yorkers who speak over 200 languages. Recognizing that
immigrant New Yorkers make up almost 40 percent of the City’s total population, and that
60 percent of New Yorkers are immigrants or children of immigrants, MOIA works to close
the access gap between immigrant communities and government services. This report
presents a snapshot of the City’s work in this area but does not cover the totality of work
that other New York City agencies do to serve immigrants.
In 2021, the city entered its second year of the COVID-19 pandemic and focused its efforts
on recovery programs and the key to NYC: vaccinations. MOIA continued to ensure that
immigrants were included in these efforts through advocacy, outreach, informationsharing, and community empowerment. This includes working with the new federal
administration to push for immigration reform, combatting the inequities and impacts of
COVID-19 and other disasters, and preparing for the transition and institutionalization of
legal and language services. Some of these efforts included: spearheading virtual and
in-person outreach to share information on vaccines, ranked-choice voting, citizenship
eligibility, and immigration policy changes; participating in emergency response efforts for
the Afghan + Haitian refugee crises, and advising other city agencies on the development
and implementation of policies related to immigrant New Yorkers
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