On March 24, 2022 the Biden Administration announced that the US would welcome 100,000 Ukrainians into the US. The Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (US State Department) is responsible for determining how many Ukrainians will be admitted via the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), which is the traditional resettlement program. PRM will work with all nine of the US Voluntary Resettlement Agencies (Volags) to determine how many Ukrainians will go to each region of the country.
Ascentria works with two of the Volags – Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and Church World Service, in resettling through offices in West Springfield and Worcester, MA and in Concord, NH. We are actively involved in helping Ukrainian nationals access services.
Ascentria Care Alliance is resettling Afghan families throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Your help is needed to ensure that they have the resources they need to access legal aid, housing, and living essentials.
There has been a groundswell of community support throughout New England to resettle Afghan refugees, humanitarian parolees, and those individuals granted Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) protection following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. We are heartened by this support as we all see this humanitarian crisis playing out in real-time.
The term “Refugee” is a legal status granted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to persons forced to flee their home country due to persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political views, or membership in a particular social group.
UNHCR identifies durable solutions for refugees, including repatriation, local integration into the country of first asylum, or as a last resort, 3
rd country resettlement.
- Approximately 80% of refugees are women and children.
- The average length of stay in a refugee camp is 17 years.
- Resettlement in a new country is available to less than 1% of the world’s refugees.
Ascentria works with our national partners to assist refugees from countries all over the world. We help resettle refugees year-round in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.