The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has suspended programs that allowed immigrants to temporarily settle in the United States, including a key initiative that provides entry for Ukrainians, The New York Times reported on Friday.
“The directive, contained in an email sent by a senior U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official on Thursday and obtained by The New York Times, calls for an immediate halt to ‘final decisions’ on applications related to these programs while the administration reviews them and decides whether to terminate them,” The New York Times writes.
The affected programs include the “Unite for Ukraine” initiative, a Biden-era initiative that allowed Ukrainian immigrants to temporarily enter the United States if they had financial sponsors. According to the government, as of September 2023, more than 150,000 Ukrainians had entered under this program.
