Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have arrived in New York since the start of Russia's invasion a year ago, with roughly 14,000 landing in Brooklyn. Many are crammed into small apartments with sponsors who’ve opened their homes to help them find jobs in NYC.
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But that does not mean these new arrivals are without hardship and longing. Some say that the well of support they have received is not limitless. In some cases, housing deals and financial sponsorship have evaporated. And some of the Ukrainians in New York are dealing with enduring uncertainty and their own scars from the fighting.
Mazurova and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on March 14, but soon found that the woman who’d offered to house them in New York had backed out of the arrangement. “Since we moved to New York, I've met so many wonderful people, and I'm so grateful for their support,” she said through an interpreter.For immigration advocates working on the front lines, the past year has brought a surge in cases from Ukraine and a variety of challenges, namely the difficulty of finding housing for entire families in an expensive city.
One of the pillars of Uniting for Ukraine is sponsorship, a nonbinding arrangement for those willing to host one or more people fleeing the war. Far more common, Agnew-Barajas and other experts said, is the problem of sponsors finding that they cannot host someone they initially offered to take in, or realizing that they can’t do it indefinitely. Since the sponsorships are nonbinding there is no cost to walking away from a commitment.financial support, housing, food, orientation to the United States, all of the needs that this person has until they can get stabilized,” Ziesemer said.
Ziesemer said that at least 15 of her organization’s Ukrainian clients left the U.S. “because they were not getting the support that they needed” from sponsors. In most cases, she said, they moved to Europe.Mazurova, who arrived on a visa last March, realized that she needed a home of her own if she wanted to get her 11-year-old daughter Maiia into school, but discovered it was extremely difficult.
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