Agency Name: | Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
Type: | bureau |
Seal: | US Department of State official seal.svg |
Preceding1: | Bureau of Refugee Programs |
Jurisdiction: | Executive branch of the United States |
Employees: | 225 (FY 2016)[1] |
Budget: | $3.1 billion (FY 2015) |
Chief1 Name: | Julieta Valls Noyes |
Chief1 Position: | Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration |
Parent Department: | U.S. Department of State |
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State.
It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs. The Bureau is headed by the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration and the official currently acting in this capacity is PRM Assistant Secretary Julieta Valls Noyes. Noyes has headed PRM since March 31, 2022..[2]
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) provides aid for and seeks to enhance the protection of refugees, victims of conflict and stateless people around the world, and manages the US Refugee Admissions Program to resettle refugees in the United States. PRM is a major funder of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and other aid groups. PRM also promotes the United States' population and migration policies in international fora and with other governments.
PRM's principal authorities derive from statutes, including the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 and the Refugee Act of 1980.[1]
The bureau's predecessor, the Bureau of Refugee Programs, began in late-1979. In 1993, the bureau added population issues to its portfolio, and the bureau was changed into its current form, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.[1]
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration is divided into ten unique offices.[3] [4]