Legislators should be (re)informed about this 2004 study for The State Dept.
Interesting Study/Research for The State Dept. By David A. Martin
The United States Refugee Admissions Program: Reforms for a New Era of Refugee Resettlement
(SORRY FOR USING UPPER CASE HERE – BUT I DO IT TO DISTINGUISH WHAT I WRITE FROM THE QUOTE OF THE STUDY BELLOW). BETWEEN THE DOTTED LINES YOU WILL SEE THE QUOTE OF THIS STUDY (PUBLISHED ON JULY 8 - 2004) THAT YOU ALSO CAN FIND AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/refadm/rls/rpts/36067.htm
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Chapter VII. Statutory Amendments
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C. Repeal the ceiling on asylee adjustments
Although not strictly involving the refugee admissions program, the backlog in asylee adjustments has become a sufficiently compelling problem that any amendment package for the Refugee Act must address the issue. INA ' 209(b) allows the President to make available in the annual PD up to 10,000 admissions to be used to adjust the status of persons granted asylum under INA ' 208, to the status of a lawful permanent resident (LPR), after a minimum of one year's residence in the United States as an asylee.2 For many years now, asylum grants B which are not capped (with the minor exception addressed in the next Section), and which could not reasonably be subjected to a ceiling B have exceeded 30,000 annually, leading to the creation of a massive backlog in adjustments. It is growing rapidly; over 45,000 asylees applied for adjustment in FY 2002.3 Persons granted asylum today face a wait of well over 10 years before obtaining permanent resident status. The problem has also resulted in class-action litigation, and a district court recently ordered the immigration authorities to make up for the failure to use all 10,000 adjustments in recent years.4 That order, if not overturned on appeal, will provide some amelioration of the backlog problem, but its effects will be temporary. The backlog will continue to grow.
There are solid reasons supporting a modest delay before asylees can obtain LPR status and justifying a back-up authority in the President to restrict asylee adjustments in extraordinary circumstances. But there is no defensible reason for an implacable and expanding 10-year delay, which hinders full integration and certainly postpones the ultimate U.S. citizenship of asylees. We should instead be helping asylees to rebuild their lives in their new homeland. A simple statutory amendment could promote that important goal, without sacrificing the policies that led Congress to require delayed adjustment in the first place.
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THE LINK FOR THE (WHOLE) RESEARCH MAIN PAGE IS:
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/refadm/rls/rpts/36958.htm
Is that good news?
Interesting Study/Research for The State Dept. By David A. Martin
The United States Refugee Admissions Program: Reforms for a New Era of Refugee Resettlement
(SORRY FOR USING UPPER CASE HERE – BUT I DO IT TO DISTINGUISH WHAT I WRITE FROM THE QUOTE OF THE STUDY BELLOW). BETWEEN THE DOTTED LINES YOU WILL SEE THE QUOTE OF THIS STUDY (PUBLISHED ON JULY 8 - 2004) THAT YOU ALSO CAN FIND AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/refadm/rls/rpts/36067.htm
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Chapter VII. Statutory Amendments
...
C. Repeal the ceiling on asylee adjustments
Although not strictly involving the refugee admissions program, the backlog in asylee adjustments has become a sufficiently compelling problem that any amendment package for the Refugee Act must address the issue. INA ' 209(b) allows the President to make available in the annual PD up to 10,000 admissions to be used to adjust the status of persons granted asylum under INA ' 208, to the status of a lawful permanent resident (LPR), after a minimum of one year's residence in the United States as an asylee.2 For many years now, asylum grants B which are not capped (with the minor exception addressed in the next Section), and which could not reasonably be subjected to a ceiling B have exceeded 30,000 annually, leading to the creation of a massive backlog in adjustments. It is growing rapidly; over 45,000 asylees applied for adjustment in FY 2002.3 Persons granted asylum today face a wait of well over 10 years before obtaining permanent resident status. The problem has also resulted in class-action litigation, and a district court recently ordered the immigration authorities to make up for the failure to use all 10,000 adjustments in recent years.4 That order, if not overturned on appeal, will provide some amelioration of the backlog problem, but its effects will be temporary. The backlog will continue to grow.
There are solid reasons supporting a modest delay before asylees can obtain LPR status and justifying a back-up authority in the President to restrict asylee adjustments in extraordinary circumstances. But there is no defensible reason for an implacable and expanding 10-year delay, which hinders full integration and certainly postpones the ultimate U.S. citizenship of asylees. We should instead be helping asylees to rebuild their lives in their new homeland. A simple statutory amendment could promote that important goal, without sacrificing the policies that led Congress to require delayed adjustment in the first place.
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THE LINK FOR THE (WHOLE) RESEARCH MAIN PAGE IS:
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/refadm/rls/rpts/36958.htm
Is that good news?
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