The International Catholic Migration Commission serves and protects
uprooted people: refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, regardless of faith, ethnicity or nationality.
ICMC has been working in Turkey since 1967, when the Overseas Processing Entity was first opened to support the resettlement of refugees to the United States.
For 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
ISTANBUL 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
Hakim* and his sister are Iraqi refugees, having fled their country when violence touched their lives. While both are refugees, he and his family now live in Madison Heights, USA, while she and her family are in Damascus, Syria, awaiting resettlement. Here is his story.Read more
TURKEY, 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