Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2023, 60547-60548 [2022-21913]

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60547-60548]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21913]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 193 / Thursday, October 6, 2022 / 
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                Presidential Determination No. 2022-25 of September 27, 
                2022

                
Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions 
                for Fiscal Year 2023

                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), and 
                after appropriate consultations with the Congress, I 
                hereby make the following determinations and authorize 
                the following actions:

                The admission of up to 125,000 refugees to the United 
                States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 is justified by 
                humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national 
                interest.

                The admissions numbers shall be allocated among 
                refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United 
                States in accordance with the following regional 
                allocations:

 
 
 
                                                                 Africa.................................................  40,000                  ......
                                                                 East Asia..............................................  15,000                  ......
                                                                 Europe and Central Asia................................  15,000                  ......
                                                                 Latin America/Caribbean................................  15,000                  ......
                                                                 Near East/South Asia...................................  35,000                  ......
                                                                 Unallocated Reserve....................................  5,000                   ......
 

                The 5,000 unallocated refugee numbers shall be 
                allocated to regional ceilings, as needed. Upon 
                providing notification to the Judiciary Committees of 
                the Congress, you are hereby authorized to use 
                unallocated admissions in regions where the need for 
                additional admissions arises.

                Additionally, upon notification to the Judiciary 
                Committees of the Congress, you are further authorized 
                to transfer unused admissions allocated to a particular 
                region to one or more other regions, if there is a need 
                for greater admissions for the region or regions to 
                which the admissions are being transferred.

                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 this 
                purpose.

                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 FY 2023, 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 El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras; 
                and
                    e. In certain circumstances, persons identified by 
                a United States Embassy in any location.

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                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, September 27, 2022

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