Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020
| Citation | 84 FR 65903 |
| Record Number | 2019-26082 |
| Published date | 29 November 2019 |
| Section | Presidential Documents |
| Court | Executive Office Of The President |
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Presidential Determination No. 2020-04 of November 1, 2019--
Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020
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The President
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Presidential Determination No. 2020-04 of November 1,
2019
Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions
for Fiscal Year 2020
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States, in
accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157), after
appropriate consultations with the Congress, and
consistent with the Report on Proposed Refugee
Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020 submitted to the
Congress on September 26, 2019, I hereby determine and
authorize as follows:
The admission of up to 18,000 refugees to the United
States during Fiscal Year 2020 is justified by
humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national
interest. These admissions shall be allocated among
refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United
States in accordance with the following allocations:
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Additionally, after consultation with the Secretary of
Homeland Security, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and the Attorney General, and upon
notification to the appropriate committees of the
Congress, you are further authorized to transfer unused
admissions from a particular allocation above to one or
more other allocations, if such transfer would be in
the national interest and there is a need for greater
admissions for the allocation to which the admissions
will be transferred.
Consistent with section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(b)), I
hereby determine that assistance to or on behalf of
persons applying for admission to the United States as
part of the overseas refugee admissions program will
contribute to the foreign policy interests of the
United States, and I accordingly designate such persons
for this purpose.
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Consistent with section 101(a)(42) of the Act (8 U.S.C.
1101(a)(42)), and after appropriate consultation with
the Congress, I also specify that, for Fiscal Year
2020, the following persons may, if otherwise
qualified, be considered refugees for the purpose of
admission to the United States within their countries
of nationality or habitual residence:
a. persons in Cuba;
b. persons in Eurasia and the Baltics;
c. persons in Iraq;
d. persons in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador;
and
e. in exceptional circumstances, persons identified
by a United States Embassy in any location.
You are authorized and directed to publish this
determination in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, November 1, 2019
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