The International Catholic Migration Commission
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
serves and protects uprooted people: refugees, internally
displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
Turkey    Turkey: Governor’s welcome offers refugees a refreshing reprieve on World Refugee DayTURKEY, 20 June 2011—Rarely able to travel far beyond their host city of Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, nearly 200 refugees relished the opportunity to gather at the 26th of August Natural Park for a festive day of food, games and children’s crafts some 20 kilometers outside of the town centre, in celebration of World Refugee Day.Read more Turkey Turkey: Decision to lift fees on refugee residence permits welcomedISTANBUL, 25 March 2010—ICMC welcomes the decision made by the Turkish Ministry of Interior to allow Turkish residence permits to be issued free of charge to asylum seekers and refugees who meet certain criteria.Read more Turkey ICMC joins US officials in promoting refugee resettlement to the USTURKEY, 5-13 November 2009—ICMC representatives join delegates from the US Department of State, the American embassy and the UN Refugee Agency in a field mission to promote and strengthen the US refugee resettlement process locally.Read more Resettlement Support Center (RSC) for refugee resettlementFor three decades, ICMC has proudly partnered with the US State Department to conduct resettlement processing and cultural orientation (CO) for hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking to be resettled in the United States. Read more  Turkey US Consul General visits ICMC TurkeyISTANBUL 5 February 5, 2009 — ICMC Turkey, the regional Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) for the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, had the pleasure of receiving Sharon Wiener, the United States Consul General in Istanbul.Read more  |
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