Agency for New Americans 1614 W. Jefferson St. Boise, ID 83702 208-338-0033 208-338-9950 fax

Welcome to the Agency for New Americans!
ANA is a refugee resettlement program located in Boise, Idaho.  We resettle about 230 refugees a year from the following countries:  Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burma, Congo, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia and more.
ANA's primary goal is to assist refugees achieve self-sufficiency in their new lives in Boise. 

Who is a Refugee?
We hear that term often in the media, but what does it really mean?

The term refugee means any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to…that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion… The term refugee does not include any person who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. --The Refugee Act of 1980