Nova Ukraine, another nonprofit, has a refugee task force. They’ve been working with law firms to arrange pro bono legal services, and they’ve established a partnership with Airbnb to help with temporary housing.
However, they say most of the people they’ve helped so far have either overstayed tourist visas or come to the Bay Area because they have relatives here.
“These are the people who had travel documents from before the war. And getting travel documents now in Europe, I heard the sign up in some of the consuls for Ukraine is for August,” said Igor Markov with Nova Ukraine.