Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025, 83767-83768 [2024-24321]

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 202 (Friday, October 18, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 83767-83768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-24321]




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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 202 / Friday, October 18, 2024 / 
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                Presidential Determination No. 2024-13 of September 30, 
                2024

                
Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions 
                for Fiscal Year 2025

                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) 2025 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.............................      30,000-50,000
                  East Asia..........................      10,000-20,000
                  Europe and Central Asia............        2,000-3,000
                  Latin America/Caribbean............      35,000-50,000
                  Near East/South Asia...............      30,000-45,000
 

                The above allocation ranges are intended to provide 
                flexibility as needs arise, but the total admissions 
                among all of the regions may not exceed 125,000. Upon 
                providing notification to the Judiciary Committees of 
                the Congress, you are hereby 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 2025, 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 or by an authorized State 
                Department referral partner 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 30, 2024

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