Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

• Citation: 86 FR 46757
• Record Number: 2021-18062
• Published date: 20 August 2021
• Section: Presidential Documents
• Court: Executive Office Of The President

Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 159 (Friday, August 20, 2021)

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 159 (Friday, August 20, 2021)]
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                The President
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                 Presidential Determination No. 2021-11 of August 16,
                 2021
                
                Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
                 Memorandum for the Secretary of State
                 By the authority vested in me as President by the
                 Constitution and the laws of the United States of
                 America, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and
                 Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1))
                 (MRAA), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1)
                 of the MRAA, that it is important to the national
                 interest to furnish assistance under the MRAA in an
                 amount not to exceed $500 million from the United
                 States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund
                 for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee
                 and migration needs of refugees, victims of conflict,
                 and other persons at risk as a result of the situation
                 in Afghanistan, including applicants for Special
                 Immigrant Visas. Such assistance may be provided on a
                 bilateral or multilateral basis as appropriate,
                 including through contributions to international
                 organizations and through funding to other
                 nongovernmental organizations, governments, and United
                 States departments and agencies.
                 You are authorized and directed to submit this
                 determination to the Congress, along with the
                 accompanying Justification, and to publish this
                 determination in the Federal Register
                
                
                 (Presidential Sig.)
                 THE WHITE HOUSE,
                 Washington, August 17, 2021
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