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o To help ease UNHCR budgetary problems, the U.S. has supported UNHCR efforts to encourage other donors to provide contributions in advance of normal pledging schedules.
3. The United States should assert its leadership in renewed international approaches to effective durable solutions for long-stayers.
Administration Actions:
o The U.S. is holding discussions with both first asylum and resettlement countries to seek renewed international approaches to effective durable solutions for long-stayers.
4. As part of an international effort with other participating nations to find durable solutions for long-stayers, the United States should begin processing refugees from the current population with no ties to the United States [P-6]. selecting cases from this group for resettlement, the United States should take into account length of stay in first asylum camps and other compelling circumstances.
Administration Actions:
o The U.S, has announced its intention to process P-6 refugees on a limited basis from the group of land Vietnamese currently at Site II in Thailand.
o U.S. and other countries' resettlement policies regarding all long-stayers are being considered in the context of an international approach.
5. The United States should take the lead with other participating countries in a "sharing-out" of the remaining refugee populations, offering more third country resettlement in exchange for local settlement of refugees where appropriate.
Administration Actions:
o Any actions to solve the long-stayer problem must be undertaken in a coordinated and phased manner.
o While recognizing that for many countries in Southeast Asia the granting of first asylum was predicated on continued off-take by the resettlement countries, all forms of durable solutions for the long-stayer population must be considered as part of the discussions at an appropriate time with first asylum and resettlement countries mentioned above.