NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced that following the city’s Asylum Application Help Center’s first anniversary, the center has won the American Bar Association’s Hodson Award for distinguished public service for its work helping asylum seekers submit applications for work authorization, temporary protected status (TPS), and asylum. The award — named in honor of the distinguished public service career of the late Major General Kenneth J. Hodson, a former judge advocate general of the U.S. Army — recognizes sustained, outstanding performance or a specific and extraordinary service by a government or public sector law office.
“New York City has done more than any other locality across the country to manage the asylum seeker crisis, and a key part of that work is helping our newcomers take their next steps towards independence by helping them submit vital and complicated work authorization, TPS, and asylum applications,” said Mayor Adams. “This well-deserved award is a credit to our creative and dedicated team, who created this first-in-the-nation center and have supported more than 58,000 applications — that’s tens of thousands of individuals and families who are this much closer to the American Dream. And if we get the federal changes we need to make it easier for even more people to work, we’ll be able to do that much more. My thanks to the American Bar Association for recognizing this incredible, impactful work.”
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Source: The Office of the Mayor