Peter Sokor News Today

Senator Tammy Baldwin is calling on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immediately address extensive work permit wait times for Afghan and Ukrainian refugees in Wisconsin, citing a News 3 Investigates report.

Federal work permit backlogs have left many Ukrainian families in a months-long limbo since arriving in Dane County, fleeing the war.

STOUGHTON, Wis. — A truck driver, a hospital worker, a school teacher, and a piano teacher: Four Ukrainians who have resettled in Stoughton since the war drove them to the United States in April had vibrant careers they left behind at home. Here in the states, they’re still waiting to resume those jobs. Federal work permit backlogs, however, have left...

STOUGHTON, Wis. — At least four Ukrainian refugee families fleeing the war in their home country will have a semi-permanent home in Stoughton thanks to the expanding efforts of a 7-month-old volunteer organization, the Stoughton Resettlement Assistance Program (SRAP). One family, Slava and Natalia Romashchenko, are lavish in their praise when asked what those efforts have meant to them. “We...

At least four Ukrainian refugee families fleeing the war in their home country will have a semi-permanent home in Stoughton thanks to the expanding efforts of a 7-month-old volunteer organization, the Stoughton Resettlement Assistance Program (SRAP).