NYC ramped up legal assistance for asylum-seekers, and it's starting to pay off
Immigration advocates and members of the New York City Council have long pushed Mayor Eric Adams' administration to ramp up its efforts to help newly arrived migrants apply for asylum and work permits — and it finally has.
Councilmember Shahana Hanif, who chairs the immigration committee and has long criticized the administration for failing to help new migrants apply for asylum and work permits in large numbers, applauded the city’s latest efforts. The help center has scheduled 600 appointments for migrants to apply for TPS — the maximum number of slots available this month, since all other openings had been booked before the program was expanded, said Masha Gindler, the center’s director. TPS applications have only been filed for about 300 people so far, owing to the extra paperwork required, Gindler noted.
At Wednesday's hearing, councilmembers also questioned if the administration’s policy of requiring migrants to reapply for shelter — after 30 days for single adults and after 60 days for families — would hamper efforts to help migrants stabilize. Adams recently“Do you acknowledge that the policy of evicting people from shelter makes asylum, TPS, work permit filings more difficult?” Hanif asked.
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