Refugees from Afghanistan and Syria stand in line at the Port of Mytelene while boarding a ferry on March 9, 2016 in Mytelene, Greece. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)

As of today, 10,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the United States, meeting a goal set by President Barack Obama a month ahead of schedule, National Security Advisor Susan Rice announced in a statement.

“Our 10,000th Syrian refugee will arrive this afternoon,” Rice said. “On behalf of the President and his Administration, I extend the warmest of welcomes to each and every one of our Syrian arrivals, as well as the many other refugees resettled this year from all over the world.” Rice said that, in total, the U.S. will resettle at least 85,000 refugees this fiscal year.

There are more than 4.8 million registered Syrian refugees currently displaced by their country’s ongoing civil war, according to data from the United Nations Refugee Agency.

The president’s directive hit a snag after the deadly attacks in Paris last November. More than half of the country’s governors, including Maryland’s Larry Hogan, announced they wanted the federal government to stop resettling Syrian refugees in their states. (Never mind that all the identified attackers from Paris were citizens of the European Union.)

According to the Refugee Processing Center, 297 Syrian refugees arrived in Maryland and 159 in Virginia from October 1, 2015 through today. The District does not resettle refugees.

Of the refugees resettled stateside, 80 percent are women and children under the age of 18, CBS reports. The refugee program includes stringent background checks by the State Department, which take between 18 and 24 months to complete.