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    • Weekly Wins Round-up: March 2023

    Dear Friend, Did you know that immigrants must wait for at least six months after petitioning for asylum before they… MORE

    HIAS PA’s 2023 Golden Door Awards

    Honoree Spotlight: Nelofar Asadi Nelofar Asadi fled to the United States as an unaccompanied minor during the US withdrawal from… MORE

    HIAS PA’s 2023 Golden Door Awards

    Honoree Spotlight: Mishkan Shalom Reconstructionist Synagogue and St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church Resa Rudney Award Honorees Mishkan Shalom… MORE

    HIAS PA’s 2023 Golden Door Awards

    Honoree Spotlight: Blank Rome LLP As a firm that was founded in Philadelphia in 1946 by lawyers who were excluded… MORE

    Picking up the pieces after US falters in its commitment to welcoming Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion

    More than 147,000 Ukrainians have been authorized to book passage to the United States through a government sponsorship program, including… MORE

    Weekly Wins Round-up: February 2023

    Dear Friend, This past month, Welcoming America announced Philadelphia’s official Certified Welcoming City designation. We are one of only 18… MORE

    Weekly Wins Round-up: January 2023

    Dear Friend, This month we observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was, in large part, the fact that six million… MORE

    For Afghan evacuees in Philly and elsewhere, a looming unemployment crisis

    Cathryn Miller-Wilson has worked in immigration long enough to know when a crisis is walking toward her. And right now… MORE

    Watch it Now: HIAS PA’s 4th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Advocacy and Action

    On Monday, January 16th, 2023, at HIAS PA’s Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Advocacy and Action, a panel from Philadelphia-area immigrant-serving organizations discussed what our welcoming community is doing in response to the buses of migrants being sent from Texas to Philadelphia.

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    We’d like to thank Comcast for their support, including their support of the City of Philadelphia’s Welcoming Fund.

    Weekly Wins Round-up: December 2022

    Dear Friend, 2022 was a year of global unrest, but it was also a year where we all came together… MORE