The mission of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) is to provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people by providing life-sustaining assistance, working through multilateral systems to build global partnerships, promoting best practices in humanitarian response, and ensuring that humanitarian principles are thoroughly integrated into U.S. foreign and national security policy.
The Bureau works with the international community to develop humane and what are termed "durable" solutions to their displacement. The three durable solutions, are:
- Repatriation - going home when they are no longer at risk of persecution
- Local Integration - settling permanently in the country to which they have fled
- Resettlement - settling permanently in a third country