A group of 15 migrants who had benefited from humanitarian protection in Malta, left today for resettlement in the United States.

The migrants, from Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan, including a family of three and 12 single adult men and women, left Malta under the US Refugee Resettlement Program (USRRP).  On arrival, they will be assisted by NGOs in the US to proceed to their final destinations in various states.

1,071 migrants have been resettled in the United States since 2007.

260 migrants have been resettled in the United States of America his year. More are expected to leave shortly.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Malta, the International Organisation for Migration and US Government officials are involved at various stages of this resettlement process.

In all 1,730 refugees and beneficiaries of international protection have been relocated or resettled to various other developed countries since 2005 – 340 of these since the beginning of the current year.

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