This panel will inform practitioners about the U.S. refugee resettlement process - how it works, how annual numbers are set, and how refugees are identified and processed abroad. The faculty will discuss the benefits available to refugees who are resettled in the U.S. and how others, such as asylees, special immigrants, and those granted withholding of removal, may access some or all of those benefits. Special issues arising from the current conflicts in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, will be covered as well. Elissa Mittman, Mark Hetfield, Amy Bliss Tenney