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How does the Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO) track success rates, and how many have been successful?

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The Mayor's Office of Asylum Seeker Operations (OASO) does not require asylum seekers to report back on the success of their applications.

Individuals are not obligated to inform OASO about their asylum status.
The focus is on ensuring asylum seekers meet their 1-year deadline without providing full representation.
Only anecdotal evidence of successful asylum cases is available, such as one individual reporting back positively.
More than 2000 asylum seekers have obtained work authorization through OASO's efforts.

Rita Joseph

1:08:53

And do you keep track and how many have been successful to date?

Molly Schaeffer

1:08:58

We people are not required to come back to us and tell them we're not doing full representation.

1:09:03

We're trying to get people set up as quickly as we possibly can and make sure that they hit their 1 year asylum deadline.

1:09:10

So we're not this is all prosay, and so they're not required to come back to us and tell them where they are.

1:09:16

We do know that someone came back and said that they got asylum, which was really exciting for us, but that really about the relationship between the asylum application helper and and the client.

1:09:27

They are not required to tell us if they've gotten asylum to this point.

1:09:31

We do know that we've we've been calling people back for work authorization, and we do know that more than 2000 have gotten work authorization.

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