How to sponsor an Afghan refugee family
January 21, 2022
The Biden administration announced it will allow private citizens to sponsor Afghan refugees. People can pool together funds to help an Afghan family, under the Sponsor Circle Program. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 left many vulnerable Afghans behind. The Sponsor Circle program involves bringing together five adults in your area and raising $2,275 for each Afghan individual you want to help resettle in your community. Sponsors commit to assisting the refugees through their first three months in the community by helping locate housing, job searching, and registering children for school. Forming a Sponsor Circle speeds up the process of resettling Afghans who have already entered the U.S. through humanitarian parole but are currently stuck at military bases.
Specific content can be found here:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22883775/afghan-refugee-private-sponsorship