Argumentative Essay On Syrian Refugees

As the widespread dispersal of Syrian refugees and asylum-seekers cycle continues, Antonio Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) warned that over 100,000 refugee children born in exile, children born from families living in a country for political reasons, are at risk of statelessness due to the ongoing unrest of Bashar al-Assad’s authoritarian regime, limiting the rights of receiving proper legal documentation. The extreme measures that the refugee families are taking to get proper documents ranges from paying several thousand dollars to a regime-sanctioned lawyer to relying on other refugees to get tips and options to register (Soguel, D. The Christian Science Monitor, 2015). In order to prevent fraud and deportation of the refugee families and children, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and UNHCR will need to cooperate in order to provide accurate information and efficiency for the refugees and asylum-seekers seeking safety of

Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) and go through multiple interviews, confirming that he/she is fleeing from persecution in their country (USCIS, 2015). After getting approval, he/she must go through multiple medical checks and security checks as well as he/she is eligible for medical and cash assistance after his/her arrival on U.S. soil. Director Mark Kadel from the World Relief Spokane also explains how the whole process takes time, sometimes taking eight months to two years (Alexander, R. Spokesman Review, 2015, p.1). If a person is eligible for asylum, he/she need to file a Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal (deportation), within one year of his/her arrival to the United States. For both processes, there is no fee when he/she applies and if he/she wants to bring their families to the United States, they need to file Form I-730 (USCIS,