The United States is quietly preparing to double the number of refugees it accepts into the country, according to new reports.

Following months of efforts by President Donald Trump to limit refugees, the US State Department changed its policy last week, lifting its weekly quotas on the number of refugees who would be allowed in, according to The New York Times.

It announced the change in a low-key email from a staff member to refugee agencies.

The department lifted its toughest restrictions on asylum-seekers, which could mean that the number of accepted refugees could double from about 830 people to 1,500 per week by next month.

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The change is welcome news for many humanitarian groups who worried about the fate of refugees under President Trump. He proposed lowering the number of refugees allowed into the US by more than half and temporary halting them entirely for four months, though courts have blocked his proposals.

“This happened quickly, and everyone is still trying to figure out what it means,” Jen Smyers, director of refugee policy and advocacy with the refugee agency Church World Service, told The Los Angeles Times. “It is good news for people seeking protection and trying to reunite with family members, but it is still far from what we are hoping to see.”

“This is long overdue, but we’re very happy,” Mark Hetfield, president and chief executive of HIAS, an immigrant aid society, told The New York Times.

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Still, the number of refugees allowed into the US has slowed to a trickle under the new president, despite the ongoing crisis that has seen more migration than at any time since World War II. There were more than 13,000 refugees admitted into the country in August, 2016; by March of 2017 the number was just 2,070, according to the NYT.

The change in policy had nothing to do with a federal court striking down Trump’s ban on refugees and visitors from Muslim-majority countries, according to the reports.

Instead, the change came from Congress. While there were refugee constraints in a budget bill that was passed last fall, an updated spending bill passed this month didn’t include the restraints, so the State Department removed them from its policies.   

The rule could change again when Congress takes up next year’s budget, which is expected to pass in the fall of this year.

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