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New York City will begin helping eligible Venezuelan asylum seekers submit paper applications for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as the federal rule extending TPS to Venezuelans who entered the country before July 31, 2023. New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement on Tuesday by announcing that more $38 million in new state funds will be invested to bolster the city’s efforts to provide legal services to asylum seekers. The city will begin helping eligible Venezuelan asylum seekers submit their paper TPS and work authorization applications, as well as their fee waiver forms, to the city’s Asylum Application Help Center, also partially funded by resources. state.
NEW YORK — New York City will begin helping eligible Venezuelan asylum seekers file paper applications for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as the federal rule that extends TPS to Venezuelans who entered the country before July 31, 2023.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul made the announcement Tuesday, announcing that more than $38 million in new state funding will be invested to bolster the city’s efforts to provide legal services to asylum seekers. The city will begin helping eligible Venezuelan asylum seekers submit their paper TPS and work authorization applications, as well as their fee waiver forms, to the city’s Asylum Application Help Center, also partially funded by resources. state.
“Throughout this crisis, New York City has led the nation in answering the call to support arriving asylum seekers, and that work continues in partnership with New York State,” said Mayor Adams. “With the expansion of Temporary Protected Status, our teams are already hard at work helping them apply for work authorization, and this investment from the state will bolster those efforts to help thousands of migrants get jobs and eventually leave shelter.”
“For more than a year, the state and city have worked hand in hand to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis we are experiencing,” said Governor Hochul. “After months of coordinated advocacy by New Yorkers, the federal government has recently made thousands of migrants from Venezuela eligible for Temporary Protected Status. Our job now is to ensure that these individuals complete all appropriate paperwork so they can obtain work authorization, find employment, and exit the taxpayer-funded shelter.”
In the coming weeks, the city and state will ramp up efforts at the Asylum Help Center, expanding case management and legal services to help more asylum seekers in the city’s care obtain work authorization. , stabilize their lives and support themselves so they can look for a home outside of the shelter.
The city and state also plan to partner to expand access to legal and case services by:
Open additional Help Center satellite sites for applications across the city. Launch roving teams within the city’s emergency shelter sites to help asylum seekers apply for TPS and work authorization on site; and Schedule appointments for those entering the shelter system and qualify for TPS to request immediately upon entering city care.
Since this humanitarian crisis began, the city has taken rapid and urgent action: it has opened 210 emergency sites, including 17 other large-scale humanitarian aid centers. The city also set up navigation centers to connect asylum seekers with critical resources, enrolled thousands of children in public schools through Project Open Arms, and more.
The mayor, for his part, will travel to 4 Latin American countries on Wednesday to examine what they describe as a channel of misinformation that encourages migrants to continue crossing the border despite limited legal work opportunities in the US and the ability to housing in New York.
Where is the Help Center for Asylum Applications?
El hotel roosevelt
45 East 45th Street (between Vanderbilt and Madison Avenues)
New York, New York 10017
For more information about TPS
Click here For more information about TPS for Venezuelans: How to apply and where to get free legal help in the New York area
2023-10-04 18:27:50
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