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New additions to APA Legal Resource Library
Reminder: Webinar + Q&A: TPS for Afghans & the One-Year Asylum Filing Deadline
Please join us for this Friday’s webinar co-hosted by USCCB and CLINIC on TPS for Afghans and the one-year asylum filing deadline. There will be ample time for Q&A. We hope to see you there!
Date and Time: Friday, June 10 | 12-1:30pm ET
Target Audience: Resettlement Staff and Legal Service Providers
Link to Register: Here
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize and successfully appeal to exceptions to the one-year filing deadline for asylum
- Understand the eligibility, application process, and benefits of TPS for Afghans
- Employ key considerations and screening strategies for determining if and when to apply for TPS
- Identify informational resources and how to access technical legal support
USCIS Presentation + Q&A: TPS for Afghans
Please consider attending USCIS’s upcoming presentation and Q&A on TPS for Afghanistan:
Date and Time: Thursday, June 16 | 2-3pm ET
Link to Register: Here
Reminder: June 2022 APA Housing Survey – Complete by FRI., June 10th
If you have resettled APA clients, please complete the June tab of your “APA Monthly Housing Survey” in OneDrive by FRI., June 10th. Instructions and hints for completing the survey have been added in red to the June tab – please fully read the “Instructions” below the survey.
PRM and ORR have announced they will collect monthly APA housing surveys through the end of the fiscal year, so please mark the due dates in your calendar:
- June survey – complete in OneDrive by COB FRI., June 10
- July survey – complete in OneDrive by COB FRI., July 8
- August survey – complete in OneDrive by COB FRI., August 5th
- September survey – complete in OneDrive by COB FRI., Sept. 9th
If your team has questions about how to complete the APA monthly housing survey, please send questions to sevans@usccb.org
Survey Opportunity: Safety + Security Needs Assessment (Complete by June 10th)
In February 2022, USCCB/MRS became a founding member of the Resettlement Agency (RA) Safety and Security Focal Point (SSFP) Forum. The forum is a place where RAs share information on best practices and oversee working groups, one of which is training. The Forum is commissioning this outreach to develop a training strategy. To this end, the RA Safety + Security Focal Point Forum is conducting a brief survey (linked here) to get affiliate feedback on the trainings you think are most valuable for you and your organization. This survey will take between 5-8 minutes to complete. The Forum will also be conducting a series of focus groups, so please note in the survey comments if you are interested in participating in one of the groups as well as how the Forum staff can reach you. Please complete the survey by June 10th, 2022; the results of the survey and focus groups will be released on June 17th.
Reminder: USCCB Guidance on APA Documentation Issues
A reminder that, as of late March, USCCB and IOM are no longer the point of contact to locate APA clients’ I-94s, Employment Authorization Documents (EADs), or Social Security (SS) cards. USCCB is no longer regularly checking the OneDrive documents for missing EADs/SS cards. Local resettlement staff should reach out directly to the issuing organizations (for I-94s, CBP; for EADs, USCIS; for SS cards, SSA). Full instructions for locating missing documents and correcting documents with errors are in the USCCB APA Documentation Issues and Next Steps guide on MRSConnect (must be logged into MRSConnect to see this resource).
Reminder: Attached Parolee Minor Reports due to MRSRefugeeMinors@usccb.org
Please email your completed Suitability Determinations and 90-Day Evaluations for Afghan Parolee Minors (attached minors who arrived through APA – these are children who did not travel with, and/or resettle with, their biological parents) to MRSRefugeeMinors@usccb.org.
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