UNHCR - Pandemic threatens progress on refugee admissions through family, work, study permits
Reunited Congolese family (left to right) Estelle, Grace and Eliane outside their apartment in Dijon, France. © UNHCR/Benjamin Loyseau A new study released today shows that 1.5 million people from nations driving major refugee movements were admitted by 35 OECD countries and Brazil on family, work and study permits in the decade just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest report by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , titled “Safe Pathways for Refugees II”, examines admissions from 2010 to 2019 of people from seve...