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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that Ukrainian citizens who fled the ongoing war in their homeland and sought refuge in the United States would be permitted to remain in the country until the conflict concludes, Kyiv Post reported.
“We will. We have a lot of people who came in from Ukraine, and we’re working with them,” Trump stated in a brief interaction with reporters at the White House when asked on the matter, according to Kyiv Post.
Since taking office in January 2025, the Trump administration has been actively re-evaluating and, in some cases, moving to terminate humanitarian parole programs established during the Biden presidency.
The “Uniting for Ukraine” (U4U) initiative, a streamlined process started in the Biden era in April 2022, was a key pathway that allowed US-based sponsors to bring Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members to the US for a temporary period of up to two years on humanitarian parole, according to Kyiv Post.
More than 240,000 Ukrainians benefited from this program, seeking safety from Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to Kyiv Post. However, anxiety among these refugees and their supporters has been high. Earlier in the year, reports indicated that the Trump administration was considering revoking the temporary legal status for many Ukrainians, potentially placing them on a fast track to deportation.