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The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. It has primary responsibility for formulating policies on population, refugees, and migration, and for administering U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs. It develops policy, coordinates funding, and manages refugee resettlement in the United States with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and other aid groups.

Each year, the State Department prepares a report to Congress on proposed refugee admissions. Congress then advises the president on the proposed ceilings (limits) on refugee admissions for that fiscal (financial) year. Asylum-seekers are not subject to the refugee admissions set by Congress — at least not until they become asylees (those granted asylum) and seek permanent residence.

According to the Secretary of State, for the 2022 fiscal year (October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022), the total ceiling is set at 125,000 admissions, divided among six geographic regions and a catchall unallocated category. Here’s how those 125,000 admissions are divided:

 Africa: 40,000

 East Asia: 15,000

 Europe and Central Asia: 10,000

 Latin America and the Caribbean: 15,000

 The Near East and South Asia: 35,000

 Unallocated reserve: 10,000