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The State Department, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services, announced the launch of the Welcome Corps, a new program allowing Americans to privately sponsor refugees arriving through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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Additional Information: Welcome Corps aims to mobilize 10,000 Americans as private sponsors for at least 5,000 refugees in its first year. The effort represents the first time the State Department will allow individuals, instead of nonprofit organizations, to facilitate community-level logistics for arriving refugees. Initially, private sponsors will be matched with refugees whose cases are already approved for resettlement under USRAP. Beginning midyear, private sponsors will be able to identify refugees to refer to the USRAP for resettlement and support the refugees they have identified. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that the Welcome Corps will “build on the extraordinary response of the American people over the past year in welcoming our Afghan allies, Ukrainians displaced by war, Venezuelans, and others fleeing violence and oppression.”
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