Thousands of Iraq Refugees to Be Admitted to U.S.
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Some 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted to the United States over the next year as efforts to end long delays processing referrals from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees begin to take effect, government officials told reporters this morning.
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The U.N. refugee agency is more than doubling its annual appeal for funds to help Iraqis fleeing their homes to $123 million from $60 million, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Unrelenting violence and insecurity in Iraq could cause as many as 1 million Iraqis to flee their homes this year, the world's migration body said Friday.
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The United States was set on Thursday   to hand over formal command of Iraqi troops to Prime Minister   Nuri al-Maliki's government, a significant step toward the   withdrawal of some 150,000 U.S.-led foreign troops.
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Desperate Iraqis here and in Jordan are slogging through a slow, grueling process of interviews and background checks, trying to get one of the thousands of slots the United States is giving out to Iraqis for permanent asylum.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States will soon begin admitting a bigger trickle of the more than 2 million refugees who have fled Iraq, acknowledging for the first time the country may never be safe for some who have helped the United States there.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - Dr. Raad Sameer's three children were very excited -- Monday was to be their first day of school in America. A month after landing in the U.S. heartland, the Iraqi refugees were ready to pursue their dream.
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WASHINGTON - The United States signed an agreement with Iraq on Friday to forgive 100 percent of the $4.1 billion debt Iraq owes it, and urged other nations to follow suit to help the war-torn nation.
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The Iraqi cabinet approved a draft law on Wednesday that will offer a general pardon to thousands of prisoners in U.S. military and Iraqi custody, a government spokesman said.
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The United States ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Cocker, has called for all Iraqis working for the US government to be granted refugee status in recognition of the dangers they face.
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At least 1,000 Iraqis are fleeing their homes each day because of violence and insecurity Â a figure that could increase with threats of cross-border attacks into northern Iraq, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Bush administration officials said yesterday that 1,324 Iraqi refugees entered the United States from October through January, as part of a U.S. program aimed at bringing in 12,000 by Sept. 30.
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1,324 refugees enter U.S. over four months in program to bring in 12,000 by Sept. 30th.
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Nine hundred reservists are to be deployed to Iraq, the government has announced.
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Iraqi exiles from Australia to the  United States began registering on Monday for elections at the  end of the month, many of them voting for the first time in a  poll they hope will help bring democracy to their country.
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The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday called for $261 million this year to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by violence.
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Logistical preparations are under way to  allow at least a million exiled Iraqis to cast their votes in  the country's first free elections next month, a senior  organizer said on Thursday.