QUESTION
Are certain people or types of appointments given priority in the system?
3:09:00
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Molly Schaeffer, Interim Director of the Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO), confirms that due to resource constraints, certain appointment types are prioritized based on application type.
- Prioritization is necessary due to the limited resources available.
- The type of application determines the priority of appointments.
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS) appointments are prioritized over asylum applications when necessary to ensure quick processing of TPS.
Alexa Avilés
3:09:00
And are certain folks or appointment types prioritized in that system?
Molly Schaeffer
3:09:07
Yes.
3:09:07
Because we have very we have a we're a resource constrained like everybody else, and so we make priorities based on what type of application.
3:09:18
So we've made, like I said before, when when TPS was announced, we put more TPS appointments online and took a little bit less asylum applications to make sure that we could get through TPS as quickly as possible
Alexa Avilés
3:09:33
Got it.