Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Department of Human Services
Chapter 661 - REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, REPATRIATE, AND STATE LEGALIZATION IMPACT ASSISTANCE GRANT (SLIAG) PROGRAMS
Subchapter 2 - REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM
Section 17-661-7 - Definitions

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 17-661-7
Current through February, 2024

As used in this subchapter:

"Full-time training" means that the refugee is enrolled in at least thirty hours of training in a program as part of an employability plan approved by the service agency which has been approved by the department.

"Refugee" means a person who is outside of the country of the person's nationality or last place of habitual residence, is unable or unwilling to use the protection of that country because of persecution or a well founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, has been admitted into the United States by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as a refugee and, if a dependent of a repatriated United States citizen, has been in the United States for more than ninety days.

"Refugee cash assistance (RCA)" means cash assistance provided to refugees who are ineligible for AFDC or SSI and who have resided in the United States for less than a specified period of time from their initial entry into the country. Effective October 1, 1991, the specified period of time shall be eight months and may be increased or decreased, subject to the availability of federal funds, by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

"Refugee resettlement program" means the federally funded program, established by section 412(a)(9), Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. §1522(a) (9) ), for the resettlement of refugees in the United States.

"Repatriated United States citizen" means an individual who has reestablished residence in the United States.

"Service agency" means an agency providing employment services funded under the refugee resettlement program.

"Sponsor" means any person or agency who has assumed the responsibility for assisting a refugee resettle into a community.

"State employment service" means the employment service of the state department of labor and industrial relations.

"Voluntary resettlement agency" means a private, nonprofit organization contracted by the federal government to provide initial resettlement services to refugees.

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