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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Revision of an Existing
Information Collection; Request for
Comments and Suggestions for
Making the Form More User Friendly
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, HSD.
ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information
Collection Under Review: Form I–589,
Application for Asylum and
Withholding of Removal; OMB Control
No. 1615–0067.
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AGENCY:
The Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Citizenship and
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Immigration Services (USCIS) has
submitted the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The information collection was
previously published in the Federal
Register on June 29, 2007, at 72 FR
35713. The notice allowed for a 60-day
public comment period, and also
requested suggestions for making the
form more user friendly. USCIS did not
receive any comments for this
information collection.
The purpose of this notice is to allow
an additional 30 days for public
comments. Comments are encouraged
and will be accepted until December 21,
2007. This process is conducted in
accordance with 5 CFR 1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions
regarding the item(s) contained in this
notice, especially regarding the
estimated public burden and associated
response time, should be directed to the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory
Management Division, Clearance Office,
111 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor,
Washington, DC 20529. Comments may
also be submitted to DHS via facsimile
to 202–272–8352 or via e-mail at
rfs.regs@dhs.gov, and to the OMB USCIS
Desk Officer via facsimile at 202–395–
6974 or via e-mail at
kastrich@omb.eop.gov.
When submitting comments by e-mail
please make sure to add OMB Control
Number 1615–0067 in the subject box.
Written comments and suggestions from
the public and affected agencies should
address one or more of the following
four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(4) Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses; and
(5) Suggest how the collection of
information can be made more
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customer-friendly, identify any
confusing and/or unnecessary language
contained in the collection of
information (including the form and
form instructions), and offer specific
ways that the form and form
instructions can be improved upon or
clarified so that they are more easily
understood by those who do not speak
English as their primary language and
who may not be familiar with legal
terms. Any suggested changes in
language must be consistent with the
statutory, regulatory and legal
requirements for asylum, withholding of
removal, and protection pursuant to the
Convention Against Torture, and must
be sufficiently precise so as to elicit the
information needed by adjudicators to
decide the cases before them and to
provide adequate notice to the applicant
of the legal consequences and
requirements associated with the
application.
Overview of this information
collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Revision of a currently approved
information collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Asylum and for
Withholding of Removal.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form I–589.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
Households. This information collection
will be used to determine whether an
alien applying for asylum and/or
withholding of deportation in the
United States is classifiable as a refugee,
and is eligible to remain in the United
States.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 63,138 responses at 12 hours
per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 757,656 annual burden
hours.
If you have additional comments,
suggestions, or need a copy of the
information collection instrument,
please visit the USCIS Web site at:
https://
www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/
component/main. We may also be
contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory
Management Division, 111
Massachusetts Avenue, NW., Suite
3008, Washington, DC 20529, telephone
number 202–272–8377.
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Dated: November 16, 2007.
Richard A. Sloan,
Chief, Regulatory Management Division, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Department of Homeland Security.
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[CIS No. 2426–07; DHS Docket No. USCIS–
2007–0043]
RIN 1615–ZA61
Cuban Family Reunification Parole
Program
U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This Notice announces U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services’
Cuban Family Reunification Parole
Program. Under this program, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services is
offering beneficiaries of approved
family-based immigrant visa petitions
an opportunity to receive a
discretionary grant of parole to come to
the United States rather than remain in
Cuba to apply for lawful permanent
resident status. The purpose of the
program is to expedite family
reunification through safe, legal, and
orderly channels of migration to the
United States and to discourage
irregular and inherently dangerous
maritime migration.
DATES: This Notice is effective
November 21, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Manpreet S. Dhanjal, Refugee Officer,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, Department of Homeland
Security, 111 Massachusetts Avenue,
NW., 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20529,
Telephone (202) 272–1613.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
In furtherance of the U.S.-Cuba
Migration Accords, the United States
endeavors to provide a minimum of
20,000 travel documents annually to
aspiring Cuban emigrants. See Joint
´
Communique on Migration, U.S.-Cuba
(Sept. 9, 1994) (known together with the
May 2, 1995 Joint Statement as the U.S.Cuba Migration Accords (hereinafter
‘‘Migration Accords’’)). In so doing, the
United States offers a safe, legal, and
orderly means of coming to the United
States. To date, the majority of travel
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documents issued under the Migration
Accords fall into one of three programs:
family-based immigrant visas; refugee
resettlement; and parole under the
Special Cuban Migration Program, also
referred to as the Cuban Lottery. For
information on the Cuban Lottery, see
https://havana.usinterestsection.gov/
diversity_program.html.
Two aspects of the existing array of
migration programs limit the ability of
the United States to effectively promote
safe, legal, and orderly migration as an
alternative to maritime crossings. First,
with the exception of ‘‘immediate
relatives’’ (e.g., spouse, unmarried
child) of U.S. citizens (USCs), the
number of family-based immigrant visas
that are available in any given year is
limited by statute. See Immigration and
Nationality Act (INA) sections 201(c),
202(a) & 203, 8 U.S.C. 1151(c), 1152(a)
& 1153. The statutory caps have resulted
in long waiting periods before family
members remaining in Cuba may rejoin
the USCs and lawful permanent
residents (LPRs) residing in the United
States who petitioned for them. Second,
the United States has not been
permitted to hold a new registration
period since 1998 due to constraints
placed on the Cuban Lottery program by
the Cuban Government. This greatly
reduces the pool of individuals to whom
the United States may issue travel
documents.
For these reasons, this Notice adds the
Cuban Family Reunification Parole
(CFRP) Program to the list of migrant
programs based on which the United
States issues travel documents under
the Migration Accords.
II. The CFRP Program
Under the CFRP Program, USCIS may
exercise its discretionary parole
authority to permit eligible Cuban
nationals to come to the United States
to rejoin their family members. See INA
section 212(d)(5)(A), 8 U.S.C.
1182(d)(5)(A) (permits parole of an alien
into the United States for urgent
humanitarian reasons or significant
public benefit); see also 8 CFR 212.5(c)
& (d) (discretionary authority for
granting parole). Granting parole to
eligible aliens under the CFRP Program
serves the significant public benefit of
enabling the United States to meet its
commitments under the Migration
Accords as well as reducing the
perceived need for family members left
behind in Cuba to make irregular and
inherently dangerous attempts to arrive
in the United States through unsafe
maritime crossings, thereby
discouraging alien smuggling as a means
to enter the United States. Whether to
parole a particular alien remains,
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however, a case-by-case, discretionary
determination.
III. Participation in the CFRP Program
USCIS will offer participation in the
CFRP Program to Cuban nationals who
reside in Cuba and who are the
beneficiaries (including any
accompanying or following to join
spouse and children (see INA section
203(d), 8 U.S.C. 1153(d)) of a properly
filed Form I–130, ‘‘Petition for Alien
Relative,’’ that has been approved, but
for which an immigrant visa is not yet
immediately available.
Under the CFRP Program, USCIS or
the Department of State’s National Visa
Center (NVC) will mail written notice to
U.S.-based USC and LPR petitioners
whose Forms I–130 have been approved
regarding their beneficiary’s eligibility
to participate in the CFRP Program and
the procedures for requesting parole.
However, participation in the CFRP is
voluntary. If USCIS exercises its
discretion to grant parole, it will issue
the necessary U.S. travel documents to
the beneficiary in Cuba. These travel
documents will enable the beneficiary
to travel safely to the United States to
rejoin his or her family members.
Participation in the CFRP Program is
not available to aliens who qualify as
‘‘immediate relatives’’ under section
201(b)(2)(A)(i) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.
1151(b)(2)(A)(i). The extraordinary
benefit of parole is not needed for these
aliens, since they may seek visas for
travel to the United States immediately
upon the approval of Form I–130.
Additional information about the
CFRP Program will be posted at
https://www.uscis.gov.
Dated: November 15, 2007.
Emilio T. Gonzalez,
Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services.
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URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–5123–N–16]
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection for Public Comment: Notice
of Funding Availability for the Tribal
Colleges and University Programs
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and
Research, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The proposed information
collection requirement described below
will be submitted to the Office of
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Agency Information Collection Activities: Revision of an Existing
Information Collection; Request for Comments and Suggestions for Making
the Form More User Friendly
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, HSD.
ACTION: 30-Day Notice of Information Collection Under Review: Form I-
589, Application for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; OMB Control No.
1615-0067.
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The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) has submitted the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The information collection was previously published in the
Federal Register on June 29, 2007, at 72 FR 35713. The notice allowed
for a 60-day public comment period, and also requested suggestions for
making the form more user friendly. USCIS did not receive any comments
for this information collection.
The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for
public comments. Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until
December 21, 2007. This process is conducted in accordance with 5 CFR
1320.10.
Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s) contained
in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public burden and
associated response time, should be directed to the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory Management Division,
Clearance Office, 111 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor, Washington, DC
20529. Comments may also be submitted to DHS via facsimile to 202-272-
8352 or via e-mail at rfs.regs@dhs.gov, and to the OMB USCIS Desk
Officer via facsimile at 202-395-6974 or via e-mail at
kastrich@omb.eop.gov.
When submitting comments by e-mail please make sure to add OMB
Control Number 1615-0067 in the subject box. Written comments and
suggestions from the public and affected agencies should address one or
more of the following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses; and
(5) Suggest how the collection of information can be made more
customer-friendly, identify any confusing and/or unnecessary language
contained in the collection of information (including the form and form
instructions), and offer specific ways that the form and form
instructions can be improved upon or clarified so that they are more
easily understood by those who do not speak English as their primary
language and who may not be familiar with legal terms. Any suggested
changes in language must be consistent with the statutory, regulatory
and legal requirements for asylum, withholding of removal, and
protection pursuant to the Convention Against Torture, and must be
sufficiently precise so as to elicit the information needed by
adjudicators to decide the cases before them and to provide adequate
notice to the applicant of the legal consequences and requirements
associated with the application.
Overview of this information collection:
(1) Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently
approved information collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Application for Asylum and for
Withholding of Removal.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security sponsoring the collection: Form I-589.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or Households. This
information collection will be used to determine whether an alien
applying for asylum and/or withholding of deportation in the United
States is classifiable as a refugee, and is eligible to remain in the
United States.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond: 63,138
responses at 12 hours per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: 757,656 annual burden hours.
If you have additional comments, suggestions, or need a copy of the
information collection instrument, please visit the USCIS Web site at:
https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main. We may also be
contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory Management Division, 111 Massachusetts
Avenue, NW., Suite 3008, Washington, DC 20529, telephone number 202-
272-8377.
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Dated: November 16, 2007.
Richard A. Sloan,
Chief, Regulatory Management Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, Department of Homeland Security.
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