03-28-2016, 09:40 AM
That information is readily available with a quick search, Maggot. But, here you go, lazy ass...........
- For the past 60 years, the U.S. has offered all refugees interest-free loans to cover the cost of their travel, but they must pay it back and they do.
- Prior to boarding a plane, all U.S.-bound refugees must sign a promissory note agreeing to repay the cost of their airfare to the U.S. government if they did not personally pay for their ticket.
- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) covers the cost of U.S.-bound tickets with funding provided by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. The loan money repaid to the U.S. government is invested back into the U.S. refugee program, according to the State Department.
- Under the agreement, refugees have to agree to pay back the loan within 42 months (three and a half years), and the average monthly payment is $85, says the State Department. The average loan amount for each refugee is $1,200, and the average number of people in a refugee family is 2.1, making the average loan note for U.S.-bound refugees $2,500.
-Since the implementation of the Refugee Act in 1980, more than $876 million in refugee loan repayments has been sent to the U.S. government, according to the State Department.
- Voluntary agencies help the refugees with food, medical screening, employment counselling and rent for 90 days. They are expected to find work quickly, support themselves, and start paying back their travel and resettlement expenses.
- Voluntary resettlement agencies attempt to place refugees near relatives, if there are any. If not, they attempt to place refugees where there are employment opportunities. Refugees are dispersed throughout the country, though sometimes they relocate to be with other immigrants from their homeland (specifically, the Somalis in Minneapolis).
- In FY 2014, new refugee arrivals went to 46 states. Top recipient states were California (3,068), Michigan (2,753), Texas (2,462), Illinois (1,064), and Arizona (973).
- One year after admission, a refugee may apply for Lawful Permanent Resident (“LPR”) status. If they adjusted to LPR status, they may petition for naturalization five years after their arrival in the United States.
- Refugee men who have recently arrived are employed at a higher rate than native born (67 percent to 60 percent respectively), and refugee women are employed at the same rate as native women.
While taking on debt might seem like a lot to ask of refugees, who often leave the war zones they are fleeing traumatized and wounded and arrive in the U.S. with very few belongings, the State Department says that by taking out a loan, “a refugee embarks on resettlement with a sense of his or her own responsibility for success in the United States and in repaying that loan contributes to the success of other refugees embarking on that same journey.”
In addition to giving a refugee “responsibility,” the State Department says the loans allow new arrivals to establish credit history, which it calls “an important step toward self-sufficiency” in their new American lives. (Canada has chosen to waive repayment of travel loans for Syrian refugees, the U.S. has not.)
Sources:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fa...fact-sheet
http://www.newsweek.com/brief-history-re...vel-403241
- For the past 60 years, the U.S. has offered all refugees interest-free loans to cover the cost of their travel, but they must pay it back and they do.
- Prior to boarding a plane, all U.S.-bound refugees must sign a promissory note agreeing to repay the cost of their airfare to the U.S. government if they did not personally pay for their ticket.
- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) covers the cost of U.S.-bound tickets with funding provided by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. The loan money repaid to the U.S. government is invested back into the U.S. refugee program, according to the State Department.
- Under the agreement, refugees have to agree to pay back the loan within 42 months (three and a half years), and the average monthly payment is $85, says the State Department. The average loan amount for each refugee is $1,200, and the average number of people in a refugee family is 2.1, making the average loan note for U.S.-bound refugees $2,500.
-Since the implementation of the Refugee Act in 1980, more than $876 million in refugee loan repayments has been sent to the U.S. government, according to the State Department.
- Voluntary agencies help the refugees with food, medical screening, employment counselling and rent for 90 days. They are expected to find work quickly, support themselves, and start paying back their travel and resettlement expenses.
- Voluntary resettlement agencies attempt to place refugees near relatives, if there are any. If not, they attempt to place refugees where there are employment opportunities. Refugees are dispersed throughout the country, though sometimes they relocate to be with other immigrants from their homeland (specifically, the Somalis in Minneapolis).
- In FY 2014, new refugee arrivals went to 46 states. Top recipient states were California (3,068), Michigan (2,753), Texas (2,462), Illinois (1,064), and Arizona (973).
- One year after admission, a refugee may apply for Lawful Permanent Resident (“LPR”) status. If they adjusted to LPR status, they may petition for naturalization five years after their arrival in the United States.
- Refugee men who have recently arrived are employed at a higher rate than native born (67 percent to 60 percent respectively), and refugee women are employed at the same rate as native women.
While taking on debt might seem like a lot to ask of refugees, who often leave the war zones they are fleeing traumatized and wounded and arrive in the U.S. with very few belongings, the State Department says that by taking out a loan, “a refugee embarks on resettlement with a sense of his or her own responsibility for success in the United States and in repaying that loan contributes to the success of other refugees embarking on that same journey.”
In addition to giving a refugee “responsibility,” the State Department says the loans allow new arrivals to establish credit history, which it calls “an important step toward self-sufficiency” in their new American lives. (Canada has chosen to waive repayment of travel loans for Syrian refugees, the U.S. has not.)
Sources:
http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fa...fact-sheet
http://www.newsweek.com/brief-history-re...vel-403241