On World Refugee Day 2024, the Biden administration released a fact sheet, celebrating the "Rebuilding and strengthening" of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program on its watch.
Over 80,000 refugee applicants overseas were interviewed by refugee officers in the first half of 2024.
The "Welcome Corps on Campus" is designed to bring refugees straight to U.S. dorms and campuses, allowing for "U.S. higher education institutions to serve as resettlement spaces and academic opportunities for refugee students".
As of spring 2023, additional resources were made available to the Welcome Campus Network through the Supporting Higher Education in Refugee Resettlement program.
On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona sent a letter to colleges and universities to encourage their leaders to step up their efforts to support displaced and refugee students "[d]uring this time of historic global displacement due to political violence, climate change, and economic insecurity".
The two cabinet secretaries encouraged the schools to, "[e]xpand access to resettlement and education by enrolling refugee students through the new Welcome Corps on Campus program" and "[l]everage underutilized facilities on your campus and in your community, if available, to provide temporary shelter or short-term housing for refugees".
Below are the monthly refugee admissions, top nationalities, and resettlement states witnessed so far in FY 2024.
https://cis.org/Report/Remaking-US-Refugee-Resettlement-Program
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