Just over 6,500 Ukrainians arrived in the United States under the Uniting for Ukraine program as of June 1.
Source: US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Applications for Ukrainians displaced by the war have been submitted by more than 45,000 Americans who have had to make financial commitments to support guests from Ukraine. It is the largest private refugee sponsorship program in the United States in decades, eclipsing a program shut down in the 1990s that allowed US groups to finance the resettlement of 16,000 refugees over six years.
US immigration officials have also authorized the travel of 27,000 additional Ukrainians identified by American sponsors.
Together with the admission of 22,000 Ukrainians along the southern border, the 6,500 admissions and 27,000 expected arrivals under the Uniting for Ukraine program could allow the US to receive over half of the 100,000 Ukrainian refugees President Biden vowed to welcome, all within the next three months.
Roughly 7,300, or 15%, of the Americans who’ve filed requests to sponsor Ukrainians, live in the New York metropolitan area, DHS statistics show. The other regions with the most would-be sponsors are Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, Sacramento, Portland and Cleveland.
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