US President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to suspend the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) has sent its ripples to Nepal also. The Nepal-based Bhutanese refugees, who were selected for their resettlement to the United States, have been directly affected by it for the time being.
Stakeholders, including International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN refugee agency UNHCR, suspended their arrangements to send a new lot of Bhutanese refugees from eastern Nepal to the United States after the suspension of entire resettlement programme by Washington, multiple sources confirmed.The US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM) corresponded to them apropos to the 120-day suspension via the US Embassy in Kathmandu in the wake of the January 27 executive order, which has drawn flaks from within the US and across the globe.
A notice was circulated to the Beldangi-based refugees a couple of days ago regarding the suspension. Some of them had already undergone medical examinations and were making final preparations to leave their camp.
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