Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration

Our Mission

The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is the humanitarian bureau of the State Department.  PRM promotes U.S. interests by working to reduce illegal migration, to provide humanitarian assistance to those fleeing persecution, crisis, or violence, and to seek durable solutions for forcibly displaced people around the world.  We do this by coordinating humanitarian policy and diplomacy, providing life-sustaining assistance, working with multilateral organizations to build global partnerships to reduce illegal migration and human smuggling, and promoting best practices in humanitarian responses.