FAQs

In our reception and placement program, our staff dedicates approximately 75 hours of case management time to each refugee. Services include welcoming each refugee family at either Manchester or Logan airport and escorting them to a furnished apartment that we have provisioned with home goods, clothing and food. Within days of arrival, our staff [...]

It is important to understand nationwide, and at the International Institute of New England, private support for refugees dwarfs public financing. Federal resettlement funds provide a one-time cash grant of $2,375 to resettlement organizations like IINE to support each newly arrived refugee. The program allocates $1,275 directly to client expenses in order to cover [...]

In the final months of FY22, IINE resettled more than 500 Afghan evacuees while simultaneously providing intensive case management and essential services to Haitians displaced by natural disasters and political unrest, children who crossed the U.S. border unaccompanied, and Ukrainians uprooted by war in their homeland. This human rights crisis has created an unparalleled [...]

Since 9/11, the United States has had the most organized and carefully managed refugee admissions process in the world. After screening by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.S National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI Terrorist Screening Center, and the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security vet all refugees seeking resettlement [...]