QUESTION
What is the New York City citizenship program and who oversees it?
0:57:40
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The New York City citizenship program offers naturalization application assistance to immigrants and is currently supervised by the Department of Social Services (DSS).
- Provides naturalization application assistance through a direct outreach model.
- Initially overseen by the office of refugee and immigrant assistance at Atria.
- Initially housed under the Human Resources Administration (HRA).
- Oversight and operations of the program have been transferred fully to DSS.
Alexa Avilés
0:57:40
Can you explain what the New York City citizenship program is?
Tom Tortorici
0:57:45
NY citizenship is currently housed under HRA.
0:57:51
It's a program that provides naturalization application assistance to immigrant New Yorkers through a direct outreach model overseen by the office of refugee and immigrant immigrant assistance at Atria.
Manuel Castro
0:58:08
And if I can add, Tom, just to clarify, NYC citizenship is not overseen by Moia that that has take the the oversight and operations of this program is now fully over at DSS
Alexa Avilés
0:58:22
at DSS.