'All I can do is pray,' says Somalian mother waiting to be reunited with her teenage sons amid the U.S. government's plans to reduce the number of refugees accepted into the country
NEW YORK/KAMPALA - Somali refugee Ramlo Ali Noor will never be reunited with her 16-year-old son in her new home in Columbus, Ohio.
At the same time - as of this summer - nearly 30,000 refugees had passed resettlement interviews abroad with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services . Of those, more than 8,800 had been approved for travel, according to a July 2, 2019 State Department report seen by Reuters. Explaining its latest cut, the administration said it must shift resources to processing a backlog of hundreds of thousands of asylum cases, mostly filed by Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ramlo Ali Noor, whose immediate family is affected by the Trump administration's cap on refugee numbers, poses at her apartment with her daughter Sumayo in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. September 27, 2019. Picture taken September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Maddie McGarvey Once she was resettled in Ohio in 2015, she applied for her sons to join her. With a job as a home health aide, she was able to pay for them to move to Kampala, Uganda. But since passing a DNA test in 2016 to prove they were her sons, their cases have been stuck. In 2019, she received two requests for additional evidence to clarify inconsistencies in their applications, according to documents seen by Reuters.
Of the 15,600 Somalis in the refugee resettlement pipeline to the United States, only 91 had been approved for travel as of early July.
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