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Refugee family from Venezuela has their dream come true: Getting asylum status in US
One family who risked everything for the chance at the American dream saw their dream become a reality. Melissa Russo reports.
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Mayor Eric Adams to travel to Central America to speak with migrants, officials
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled to travel to parts of Central America to speak with migrants along what is considered to be the most treacherous portion of their journey, according to sources.
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NYC distributing flyers to asylum seekers
The Adams Administration has begun handing out flyers to migrants to discourage new arrivals. Andrew Siff reporting.
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Cost of protected status applications may block work authorization for migrants: City Hall
Just days after the White House granted Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelans who arrived in the country prior to July 2023, sources tell NBC New York that high TPS application fees and a cumbersome waiver process will block penniless asylum seekers from their work authorizations.
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Biden grants protected status for Venezuelan migrants
President Biden answered growing calls to use his power to help migrants living in NYC shelters to work sooner. News 4’s Melissa Russo reports.
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NYC migrant crisis intensifies as calls grow for work permits to be issued
Starting Wednesday, the White House is sending a team of federal staffers as interpreters and support staff to help asylum seekers with the process of obtaining the work permits they need to start looking for jobs. As the number of people seeking asylum continues to rise — with an estimated 59,000 people currently in New York City shelters — Gov….
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NYC migrant crisis intensifies as calls grow for work permits to be issued
Federal help arrived Wednesday to get asylum seekers the work permits they need to start looking for jobs. Gaby Acevedo reports.
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Asylum seekers no longer sleeping on midtown sidewalks
NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.
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Hundreds of migrants seen sleeping outside midtown hotel now gone — but to where?
Less than 24 hours after hundreds of asylum seekers were seen sleeping on a sidewalk outside New York City’s arrival intake center in midtown, all the migrants were suddenly gone Thursday afternoon.
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Central Park among NYC areas considered to house migrants: ‘Everything is on the table'
Hundreds of asylum seekers remain in place outside of the city’s arrival intake center, where many have waited for days in wait of a place to sleep — if there is one available. Many of the migrants sleeping on the streets of midtown in front of the Roosevelt Hotel on East 45th Street and Madison Avenue, most of whom are…
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NYC looks for alternative options for migrant influx
Little movement in Midtown as hundreds of migrants are approaching five days of sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel. Melissa Russo reports.
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Migrants sleep on streets outside NYC's Roosevelt Hotel
Migrants are sleeping on the sidewalk around Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel as more and more asylum seekers arrive in the city. Melissa Russo reports.
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NYC struggles to house asylum seekers as migrants sleep on streets waiting for shelter
A large number of asylum-seekers have been outside of the city’s arrival intake center since Friday sleeping on the sidewalk as they wait to get assigned to a shelter for a bed to sleep in — if there is one available. NBC 4 New York was told that the buses parked in front of the hotel on East 45th Street…
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NYC struggles to house asylum seekers
Hundreds of migrants seeking asylum have been sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown as the city struggles to house them. Gaby Acevedo reports.
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More asylum seekers arrive in NYC
The latest in the migrant crisis.
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Mayor Eric Adams announces new NYC Asylum Application Help Center
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the opening of a new Asylum Application Help Center, which hopes to offer thousands of asylum seekers assistance completing and filing asylum applications as they begin their new life in the United States. The opening is happening in consultation with immigration legal service providers and with the initial pro-bono support of several law…
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50 NYC houses of worship to shelter asylum seekers
Through a partnership with the city, religious leaders have pledged to provide another 50 sanctuaries for asylum seekers to stay. NBC New York Melissa Russo reports.
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Judge Will Hear NYC Right to Shelter Case as Mayor Seeks Crisis Limits
Mayor Eric Adams‘ administration has been granted the opportunity to see a judge and attempt to make a case that some of New York City’s right-to-shelter obligations should be lifted amid the ongoing migrant crisis. In an order dated May 25 and obtained by NBC New York, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Deborah Kaplan responded to the city’s request two...
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NYC Asks to Suspend Longtime ‘Right-To-Shelter' Mandate Amid Migrant Crisis
Mayor Eric Adams is asking a judge to suspend the city’s long-standing obligation to provide shelter to everyone in need. Here’s what that would mean for asylum seekers. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.
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NY Migrants Wait Months for Work Authorization Cards, Preventing Them from Getting Jobs
It’s the everyday reality for thousands of recently arrived asylum seekers: They say they escaped poverty, violence and oppression only to find themselves on another long road before they can work