Immigration; Refugee Admissions Numbers and Authorizations (Presidential Determination)

Federal Register Volume 76, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 11, 2011)

Presidential Documents

Pages 62597-62598

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

FR Doc No: 2011-26331

Presidential Documents

Presidential Documents

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Presidential Determination No. 2011-17 of September 30, 2011

Fiscal Year 2012 Refugee Admissions Numbers and

Authorizations of In-Country Refugee Status Pursuant to

Sections 207 and 101(a)(42), Respectively, of the

Immigration and Nationality Act, and Determination

Pursuant to Section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and

Refugee Assistance Act, as Amended

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and

Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157), as amended, and after appropriate consultations with the

Congress, I hereby make the following determinations and authorize the following actions:

The admission of up to 76,000 refugees to the United

States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest; provided that this number shall be understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2012 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions program, as provided below.

The 76,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United

States in accordance with the following regional allocations (provided that the number of admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United States during FY 2012 with

Federal refugee resettlement assistance under section 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and

Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1988, as contained in section 101(e) of Public Law 100-202

(Amerasian immigrants and their family members)):

Africa................................................. 12,000

......

East Asia.............................................. 18,000

......

Europe and Central Asia................................ 2,000

......

Latin America/Caribbean................................ 5,500

......

Near East/South Asia................................... 35,500

......

Unallocated Reserve.................................... 3,000

......

The 3,000 unallocated refugee numbers shall be allocated to regional ceilings, as needed. Upon providing notification to the Judiciary Committees of the Congress, you are hereby authorized to use unallocated admissions in regions where the need for additional admissions arises.

Additionally, upon notification to the Judiciary

Committees of the Congress, you are further authorized to transfer unused admissions allocated to a particular region to one or more other regions, if there is a need for greater admissions for the region or regions to which the admissions are being transferred. Consistent with section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and Refugee

Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(b)(2)), as amended, 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 designate such persons for this purpose.

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 FY 2012, the following persons may, if otherwise qualified, be considered

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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. In exceptional circumstances, persons identified by a United States

Embassy in any location

You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress immediately and to publish it in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, September 30, 2011

FR Doc. 2011-26331

Filed 10-7-11; 8:45 am

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