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Abstract of proposed collection: The
Department of State Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration
(PRM) is responsible for coordinating
and managing the U.S. Refugee
Admissions Program (USRAP). PRM
coordinates within the Department of
State, as well as with the Department of
Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (DHS/USCIS),
in carrying out this responsibility. A
critical part of the State Department’s
responsibility is determining which
individuals, from among millions of
refugees worldwide, will have access to
U.S. resettlement consideration. PRM
and DHS/USCIS are expanding an incountry program to provide a means for
certain persons who are lawfully
present in the United States to claim a
relationship with child(ren) in
Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala
and to assist the U.S. Department of
State in determining whether those
child(ren) and certain derivative
beneficiaries are qualified to apply for
access to the USRAP for family
reunification purposes. This form also
assists DHS/USCIS to verify parentchild relationships during refugee case
adjudication. The main purpose of the
DS–7699 is for the U.S.-based parent to
provide biographical information about
his/her child(ren) in the qualifying
countries who may subsequently seek
access to the USRAP for verification by
the U.S. government.
Methodology: This information
collection currently involves use of
electronic techniques. Parents
(respondents) in the United States will
work closely with a resettlement agency
during the completion of the AOR to
ensure that the information is accurate.
Parents may visit any resettlement
agency located in a U.S. community to
complete an AOR. Sometimes
respondents do not have strong Englishlanguage skills and benefit from having
a face-to-face meeting with resettlement
agency staff. The DS–7699 form will be
completed electronically. Completed
AORs will be printed out for ink
signature by the respondents. The
electronic copy will then be submitted
electronically to the Refugee Processing
Center (RPC) and downloaded into the
Worldwide Refugee Admissions
Processing System (WRAPS). The
signed paper copy will remain with
PRM’s Reception and Placement Agency
partners.
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Dated: September 6, 2016.
Mark Storella,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration,
Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 9720]
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Request for Advisory
Opinion
Notice of request for public
comment.
ACTION:
The Department of State is
seeking Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for the
information collection described below.
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, we are
requesting comments on this collection
from all interested individuals and
organizations. The purpose of this
notice is to allow 60 days for public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: The Department will accept
comments from the public until
November 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Internet: Persons with access to the
Internet may comment on this notice by
going to www.Regulations.gov. You can
search for the document by entering
‘‘Docket Number: DOS–2016–0062’’ in
the Search field. Then click the
‘‘Comment Now’’ button and complete
the comment form.
• Email: DDTCPublicComments@
state.gov, ATTN: Advisory Opinion
Form.
• Regular Mail: Send written
comments to: Directorate of Defense
Trade Controls, Department of State;
2401 E St. NW., Suite H1205,
Washington, DC 20522. You must
include the DS form number,
information collection title, and the
OMB control number in any
correspondence.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Direct requests for additional
information regarding the collection
listed in this notice, including requests
for copies of the proposed collection
instrument and supporting documents,
to Steve Derscheid, Directorate of
Defense Trade Controls, Department of
State, who may be reached at
DerscheidSA@state.gov (please include
subject line ‘‘ATTN: Advisory Opinion
Form’’).
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
• Title of Information Collection:
Request for Advisory Opinion.
• OMB Control Number: 1405–0174.
• Type of Request: Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
• Originating Office: T/PM/DDTC.
• Form Number: DS–7786.
• Respondents: Individuals and
companies engaged in the business of
exporting or temporarily importing
defense articles or defense services.
• Estimated Number of Respondents:
250.
• Estimated Number of Responses:
250.
• Average Time Per Response: 2
hours.
• Total Estimated Burden Time: 500
hours.
• Frequency: On occasion.
• Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department to:
• Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the time and cost burden for
this proposed collection, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the reporting burden on
those who are to respond, including the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Please note that comments submitted
in response to this Notice are public
record. Before including any detailed
personal information, you should be
aware that your comments as submitted,
including your personal information,
will be available for public review.
Abstract of proposed collection: The
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
(DDTC), located in the Political-Military
Affairs Bureau of the Department of
State, has the principal mission of
licensing the export and temporary
import of defense articles or defense
services as enumerated in the United
States Munitions List (USML), and to
ensure that the sale, transfer, or
brokering of such items are in the
interest of United States national
security and foreign policy.
Sections 126.9 and 129.9 of the
International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR, 22 CFR 120–130)
may be used by entities and individuals
involved in the brokering, manufacture,
export, and temporary import of defense
articles and defense services to request
an advisory opinion as to whether
DDTC would be likely to grant a license
or other approval for the export of a
particular defense article or defense
service to a particular country; for
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general or regulatory guidance; or
whether certain activity constitutes
brokering under the meaning of the
ITAR. Except for determinations made
with reference to ITAR § 129.9(b),
advisory opinions are not binding on
the Department of State and may not be
used in future matters before the
Department.
DDTC has recently acquired an
electronic case management system to
update its business processes and how
it receives and handles information
from industry. This system, once
deployed, will allow users to
electronically submit requests for
advisory opinions to DDTC; users will
be able to retrieve responses using the
same system. DDTC staff members have
defined the data fields which are most
relevant and necessary for requests for
advisory opinions and developed the
means to accept this information from
the industry in a secure system. The
revision of this information collection is
meant to conform the current OMBapproved data collection to DDTC’s new
case management system. DDTC is
therefore requesting industry comments
on the new advisory opinion form,
which will be mirrored in the case
management system once deployed. A
copy of the draft form may be requested
from DDTC using the contact
information in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section above, and
a copy of the draft form will also be
placed for viewing on the DDTC Web
site at pmddtc.state.gov.
Methodology: This information will
be collected by electronic submission to
the Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls.
Dated: August 22, 2016.
Lisa Aguirre,
Managing Director, Directorate of Defense
Trade Controls, Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 9629]
Registration for the Diversity
Immigrant (DV–2018) Visa Program
Bureau of Consular Affairs,
Department of State.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
This public notice provides
information on how to apply for the
DV–2018 Program.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Program Overview
The Department of State administers
the Congressionally-mandated Diversity
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Immigrant Visa Program annually.
Section 203(c) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (INA) provides for a
class of immigrants known as ‘‘diversity
immigrants,’’ from countries with
historically low rates of immigration to
the United States. For fiscal year 2018,
50,000 diversity visas (DVs) will be
available. There is no cost to register for
the DV Program.
Applicants who are selected in the
lottery (‘‘selectees’’) must meet simple,
but strict, eligibility requirements to
qualify for a diversity visa. The
Department of State determines
selectees through a randomized
computer drawing. Diversity visa
numbers are distributed among six
geographic regions and no single
country may receive more than seven
percent of the available DVs in any one
year.
For DV–2018, natives of the following
countries are not eligible to apply,
because more than 50,000 natives of
these countries immigrated to the
United States in the previous five years:
Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China
(mainland-born), Colombia, Dominican
Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica,
Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines,
South Korea, United Kingdom (except
Northern Ireland) and its dependent
territories, and Vietnam.
Persons born in Hong Kong SAR, Macau
SAR, and Taiwan are eligible.
Changes in eligibility this year:
Ecuador is eligible for DV 2018.
Eligibility
Requirement #1: Individuals born in
countries whose natives qualify may be
eligible to enter.
If you were not born in an eligible
country, there are two other ways you
might be able to qualify.
• Was your spouse born in a country
whose natives are eligible? If yes, you
can claim your spouse’s country of
birth—provided that both you and your
spouse are named on the selected entry,
are found eligible for and issued
diversity visas, and enter the United
States simultaneously.
• Were you born in a country whose
natives are ineligible, but in which
neither of your parents were born or
legally resident at the time of your
birth? If yes, you may claim the country
of birth of one of your parents if it is a
country whose natives are eligible for
the DV–2018 program. For more details
on what this means, see the Frequently
Asked Questions.
Requirement #2: Each applicant must
meet the education/work experience
requirement of the DV program by
having either:
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• At least a high school education or
its equivalent, defined as successful
completion of a 12-year course of formal
elementary and secondary education;
OR
• two years of work experience
within the past five years in an
occupation that requies at least two
years of training or experience to
perform. The Department of State will
use the U.S. Department of Labor’s
O*Net Online database to determine
qualifying work experience. For more
information about qualifying work
experience for the principal DV
applicant, see the Frequently Asked
Questions.
Do not submit an entry to the DV
program unless you meet both of these
requirements.
Entry Period
Applicants must submit entries for
the DV–2018 DV program electronically
at dvlottery.state.gov between noon,
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT–4),
Tuesday, October 4, 2016, and noon,
Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT–5),
Monday, November 7, 2016. Do not wait
until the last week of the registration
period to enter, as heavy demand may
result in Web site delays. No late entries
or paper entries will be accepted. The
law allows only one entry by or for each
person during each registration period.
The Department of State uses
sophisticated technology to detect
multiple entries. Individuals with more
than one entry will be disqualified.
Completing Your Electronic Entry for
the DV–2018 Program
Submit your Electronic Diversity Visa
Entry Form (E–DV Entry Form or DS–
5501), online at dvlottery.state.gov. We
will not accept incomplete entries.
There is no cost to register for the DV
Program.
We strongly encourage you to
complete the entry form yourself,
without a ‘‘visa consultant,’’ ‘‘visa
agent,’’ or other facilitator who offers to
help. If someone else helps you, you
should be present when your entry is
prepared so that you can provide the
correct answers to the questions and
retain the confirmation page and your
unique confirmation number.
After you submit a complete entry,
you will see a confirmation screen that
contains your name and a unique
confirmation number. Print this
confirmation screen for your records. It
is extremely important that you retain
your confirmation page and unique
confirmation number. Without this
information, you will not be able to
access the online system that will
inform you of the status of your entry.
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[FR Doc No: 2016-22354]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 9720]
60-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Request for
Advisory Opinion
ACTION: Notice of request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of State is seeking Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval for the information collection described below.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are
requesting comments on this collection from all interested individuals
and organizations. The purpose of this notice is to allow 60 days for
public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.
DATES: The Department will accept comments from the public until
November 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Internet: Persons with access to the Internet may comment
on this notice by going to www.Regulations.gov. You can search for the
document by entering ``Docket Number: DOS-2016-0062'' in the Search
field. Then click the ``Comment Now'' button and complete the comment
form.
Email: DDTCPublicComments@state.gov, ATTN: Advisory
Opinion Form.
Regular Mail: Send written comments to: Directorate of
Defense Trade Controls, Department of State; 2401 E St. NW., Suite
H1205, Washington, DC 20522. You must include the DS form number,
information collection title, and the OMB control number in any
correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Direct requests for additional
information regarding the collection listed in this notice, including
requests for copies of the proposed collection instrument and
supporting documents, to Steve Derscheid, Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls, Department of State, who may be reached at
DerscheidSA@state.gov (please include subject line ``ATTN: Advisory
Opinion Form'').
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Information Collection: Request for Advisory
Opinion.
OMB Control Number: 1405-0174.
Type of Request: Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Originating Office: T/PM/DDTC.
Form Number: DS-7786.
Respondents: Individuals and companies engaged in the
business of exporting or temporarily importing defense articles or
defense services.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 250.
Estimated Number of Responses: 250.
Average Time Per Response: 2 hours.
Total Estimated Burden Time: 500 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Obligation to Respond: Voluntary.
We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department to:
Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the time and cost
burden for this proposed collection, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
Minimize the reporting burden on those who are to respond,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Please note that comments submitted in response to this Notice are
public record. Before including any detailed personal information, you
should be aware that your comments as submitted, including your
personal information, will be available for public review.
Abstract of proposed collection: The Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls (DDTC), located in the Political-Military Affairs Bureau of
the Department of State, has the principal mission of licensing the
export and temporary import of defense articles or defense services as
enumerated in the United States Munitions List (USML), and to ensure
that the sale, transfer, or brokering of such items are in the interest
of United States national security and foreign policy.
Sections 126.9 and 129.9 of the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (ITAR, 22 CFR 120-130) may be used by entities and
individuals involved in the brokering, manufacture, export, and
temporary import of defense articles and defense services to request an
advisory opinion as to whether DDTC would be likely to grant a license
or other approval for the export of a particular defense article or
defense service to a particular country; for
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general or regulatory guidance; or whether certain activity constitutes
brokering under the meaning of the ITAR. Except for determinations made
with reference to ITAR Sec. 129.9(b), advisory opinions are not
binding on the Department of State and may not be used in future
matters before the Department.
DDTC has recently acquired an electronic case management system to
update its business processes and how it receives and handles
information from industry. This system, once deployed, will allow users
to electronically submit requests for advisory opinions to DDTC; users
will be able to retrieve responses using the same system. DDTC staff
members have defined the data fields which are most relevant and
necessary for requests for advisory opinions and developed the means to
accept this information from the industry in a secure system. The
revision of this information collection is meant to conform the current
OMB-approved data collection to DDTC's new case management system. DDTC
is therefore requesting industry comments on the new advisory opinion
form, which will be mirrored in the case management system once
deployed. A copy of the draft form may be requested from DDTC using the
contact information in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
above, and a copy of the draft form will also be placed for viewing on
the DDTC Web site at pmddtc.state.gov.
Methodology: This information will be collected by electronic
submission to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
Dated: August 22, 2016.
Lisa Aguirre,
Managing Director, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, Department of
State.
[FR Doc. 2016-22354 Filed 9-15-16; 8:45 am]
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