Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020, 65903-65905 [2019-26082]

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 230 (Friday, November 29, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 65903-65905]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-26082]



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Vol. 84

Friday,

No. 230

November 29, 2019

Part II





The President





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Presidential Determination No. 2020-04 of November 1, 2019--
Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2020


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 230 / Friday, November 29, 2019 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
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

[FR Doc. 2019-26082
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