Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021, 21159-21160 [2021-08545]

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 76 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 21159-21160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-08545]




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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 76 / Thursday, April 22, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2021-05 of April 16, 
                2021

                
Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee 
                Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021

                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, in accordance with section 207(b) of the 
                Immigration and Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 
                1157(b)), and after appropriate consultation with the 
                Congress, I have determined that subsequent to the 
                signing of Presidential Determination 2021-02 on 
                October 27, 2020 (Presidential Determination on Refugee 
                Admissions for Fiscal Year 2021) (PD 2021-02), an 
                unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due 
                to new or increasing political violence, repression, 
                atrocities, or humanitarian crises in countries 
                including Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 
                Ethiopia, Hong Kong and Xinjiang (China), South Sudan, 
                Syria, and Venezuela, as well as changing conditions 
                caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. I have 
                further determined that the allocation of admissions 
                among refugees of humanitarian concern set forth in PD 
                2021-02 prevents the United States Refugee Admissions 
                Program from responding to this unforeseen emergency 
                refugee situation. I hereby make the following 
                determinations and direct the following actions:

                    (a) In response to the emergency refugee situation, 
                the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 allocation of admissions 
                among refugees of humanitarian concern to the United 
                States shall be revised as set forth in section (b) of 
                this determination. This action is justified by grave 
                humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in the national 
                interest. Further, the admission of refugees affected 
                by the emergency refugee situation cannot be 
                accomplished under section 207(a) of the Act.
                    (b) The revised allocations for FY 2021 are as 
                follows:

 
 
 
                                                                 Africa.................................................  7,000                   ......
                                                                 East Asia..............................................  1,000                   ......
                                                                 Europe and Central Asia................................  1,500                   ......
                                                                 Latin America and the Caribbean........................  3,000                   ......
                                                                 Near East and South Asia...............................  1,500                   ......
                                                                 Unallocated Reserve....................................  1,000                   ......
 

                    The Secretary of State, upon notification to the 
                Judiciary Committees of the Congress, is authorized to 
                use the unallocated reserve where the need for 
                additional admissions arises and to transfer unused 
                allocations from a particular category to one or more 
                other categories, if there is a need for greater 
                admissions for the category or categories to which the 
                allocations are being transferred.
                    (c) In accordance with section 101(a)(42)(B) of the 
                Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(42)(B)), and after appropriate 
                consultation with the Congress, I specify that, for FY 
                2021, 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:

(i) Persons in Cuba;

(ii) Persons in Eurasia and the Baltics;

(iii) Persons in Iraq;

(iv) Persons in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador;

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(v) In special circumstances, persons identified by a United States Embassy 
in any location or initially referred to the Federal Government by a 
designated non-governmental organization.

                    (d) The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains 
                justified by humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in 
                the national interest. Should 15,000 admissions under 
                the revised allocations for FY 2021 be reached prior to 
                the end of the fiscal year and the emergency refugee 
                situation persists, a subsequent Presidential 
                Determination may be issued to increase admissions, as 
                appropriate.
                    (e) Refugee resettlement pursuant to this 
                determination shall be consistent with the requirements 
                of Executive Order 14013 of February 4, 2021 
                (Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees 
                and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on 
                Migration).
                    (f) Consistent with section 2(b)(2) of the 
                Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 
                2601(b)(2)), 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 the purpose of that provision.
                    (g) This determination supersedes PD 2021-02 of 
                October 27, 2020.
                    (h) You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, April 16, 2021

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