{"id":111,"date":"2018-01-03T15:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2018-04-26T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:54:52","slug":"rights-and-duties-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/rights-and-duties\/rights-and-duties-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to U.S. immigration law, a refugee is someone who has been resettled to the United States through the U.S. resettlement program. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services states that a refugee is someone who \u201cIs located outside of the United States; Is of special humanitarian concern to the United States; Demonstrates that they were persecuted or fear persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group; Is not firmly resettled in another country; and is admissible to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Refugees are required to respect the laws and regulations of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Refugees should receive at least the same rights and basic help as any other foreigner who is a legal resident, including freedom of thought, of movement, and freedom from torture and degrading treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For further information regarding family, work, and other rights and duties of refugees, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/humanitarian\/refugees-asylum\/refugees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Citizenship and Immigration Services page on Refugees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other rights and responsibilities include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to U.S. immigration law, a refugee is someone who has been resettled to the United States through the U.S. resettlement program. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services states that a refugee is someone who \u201cIs located outside of the United States; Is of special humanitarian concern to the United States; Demonstrates that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/1301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}