Biden administration fast-tracking Ukrainian refugees into US
ABC News
President Biden has promised to allow up to 100,000 Ukrainians into the country.
The Biden administration on Thursday announced it is moving to fast-track Ukrainian refugees coming to the United States.
President Joe Biden heralded the plan as "fast" and "streamlined" to protect Ukrainians fleeing Russia's war, but it will do so on a temporary basis and require financial support from a U.S. sponsor -- drawing criticism from some refugee resettlement groups who called for Ukrainians to receive more permanent refugee status.
The U.S. would accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, Biden announced in Brussels last month, amid the fast-growing refugee crisis in Europe since the end of World War II. Nearly 8 million Ukrainians have been displaced by the war, the United Nations announced Thursday.
Beginning April 25, the administration says U.S.-based individuals and entities can apply to the Department of Homeland Security to sponsor Ukrainian citizens -- in an operation dubbed "Uniting for Ukraine."
