Neighbor Network

The Neighbor Network is a collective of community groups, churches, and other organizations who are welcoming refugees and humanitarian parolees to the United States through private sponsorship.

Private sponsorship promotes complementary pathways through community sponsorship to empower and equip diverse community groups, including churches and local organizations, to compassionately welcome and support newcomers, facilitating their safe and successful resettlement into their new communities across the United States.

Many of these people have been displaced for years as they wait for the opportunity to be welcomed into a new country. By agreeing and preparing to sponsor, you and your neighbors can provide a safe place to land for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Helping someone begin their journey in a new country is both more rewarding and more challenging than many people expect. To help ensure groups are prepared for the responsibilities of sponsorship, Neighbor Network groups are partnered with CWS staff who provide training, resources, expertise, and remote technical assistance through the first 3-6 months after a newcomer arrives.

While the Welcome Corps program and the I-134A humanitarian parole applications have been suspended, Neighbor Network continues its private sponsorship efforts through its role as a Sponsor Circle Umbrella. In this capacity, we mobilize and recruit community members to welcome Afghan SIV holders who are legally authorized to travel to the United States. This initiative continues to provide meaningful opportunities for communities to engage in the resettlement and integration of newcomers.

If you are interested in forming a Sponsor Circle to welcome Afghan SIVs please complete this form CWS Neighbor Network Private Sponsorship Interest Form

Current Programs

• Sponsor Circles

Past Programs (can put our former pages on this here)

• Humanitarian Parole
  • U4U
  • CHNV
• Welcome Corps