QUESTION
What are the details of the mail retention policy for asylum seekers in NYC shelters, and how will important mail be identified?
1:47:57
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Shelters in NYC will be implementing a policy to indefinitely retain important mail for asylum seekers, including items from the federal government.
- Molly Schaeffer confirms the plan to keep important mail, like social security cards and work permits, indefinitely at shelter sites.
- This policy has already been rolled out at most sites, with completion expected within the next few weeks.
- Important mail is defined as items from the federal government or items critical to the asylum seeker's status, such as work permits.
- Asylum seekers moving due to the 3060 day rule will be informed that they can retrieve their mail from their former shelter site.
Alexa Avilés
1:47:57
How long is the contract at the Red Cross Center?
Molly Schaeffer
1:48:01
I have to get back to you exactly on that.
1:48:03
And
Alexa Avilés
1:48:05
are folks subject to the 3060 day rule when you the Red Cross Center as their address with u US CIS.
Molly Schaeffer
1:48:16
So I have to get back we started doing that exact that exact for people who fill up their applications.
1:48:30
We have 4 satellite sites, so it's not just at the Red Cross, or sorry, we have four sites, so it's not just at the Red Cross where we do our services.
1:48:40
But we have been developing a plan to keep important mail at sites indefinitely.
Alexa Avilés
1:48:51
So you're keeping mail indefinitely as those sites.
Molly Schaeffer
1:48:54
We are almost a 100% there throughout our system.
Alexa Avilés
1:48:59
What what do you mean throughout this system?
Molly Schaeffer
1:49:02
Throughout this sheltering system.
Alexa Avilés
1:49:04
So are you saying that every shelter is gonna indefinitely keep mail for people who are in them at that site?
Molly Schaeffer
1:49:10
Important mail.
1:49:11
So specifically important mail.
Alexa Avilés
1:49:13
And how does one determine what's important when you can only see where it's coming from?
Molly Schaeffer
1:49:18
So we have broken down what kinds of things.
1:49:22
So it's social security cards, it's work permits, it's anything from the federal government.
1:49:28
So we have a whole list of things that people that will be kept indefinitely.
Alexa Avilés
1:49:33
So when do you expect to roll that out?
Molly Schaeffer
1:49:36
So we've already rolled it out in most of our sites, so we're just working for the next couple of weeks.
1:49:40
To get the it at the rest of our sites.
Alexa Avilés
1:49:43
So would you say would you say as of today, all mail will be permanently kept at sites, shelter sites?
Molly Schaeffer
1:49:52
I will not say as of today in the next couple of weeks.
Alexa Avilés
1:49:54
Next couple of weeks.
1:49:55
Yes.
1:49:56
You'd expect it to be 100%.
1:49:59
And it will be held indefinitely at those sites.
1:50:01
And as people are moving because of the 3060 rule, they're gonna be told they can go back to their former site.
1:50:10
Mhmm.
1:50:11
Okay.