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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4079 

To require that supplemental certifications and identity verifications be 

completed prior to the admission of refugees, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 19, 2015 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 

GALLEGO, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. 

DUCKWORTH, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require that supplemental certifications and identity 

verifications be completed prior to the admission of refugees, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secure Refugee Proc5 ess Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL LIMITATIONS ON ADMISSION OF 

7 REFUGEES. 

8 (a) IDENTITY VERIFICATION REQUIRED.—No alien 

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1 torily established his identity pursuant to procedures es2 tablished by the Secretary of Homeland Security, which 

3 shall address any insufficient, conflicting, or unreliable in4 formation, including biographic and biometric data that 

5 has not been resolved at the time of admission. 

6 (b) COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF REFUGEES TO

7 IDENTIFY SECURITY THREATS TO THE UNITED

8 STATES.—No alien shall be admitted as a refugee, if, by 

9 the time of admission, the alien’s identity has not been 

10 checked against all relevant records or databases main11 tained by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attor12 ney General (including the Federal Bureau of Investiga13 tion), the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, 

14 the Director of National Intelligence, and other Federal 

15 records or databases that the Secretary of Homeland Se16 curity considers necessary, to determine any national secu17 rity, criminal, or other grounds on which the alien may 

18 be inadmissible to the United States. 

19 (c) CERTIFICATION REQUIRED.—An alien may only 

20 be admitted to the United States as a refugee after the 

21 Secretary of Homeland Security certifies that all provi22 sions of this Act have been complied with and that the 

23 alien has not been firmly resettled in a safe third country 

24 as described in section 208(b)(2)(A)(vi) of the Immigra25 tion and Nationality Act. 


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1 (d) MONTHLY REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Sec2 retary of Homeland Security shall submit to the appro3 priate Congressional Committees a monthly report on, for 

4 the month preceding the date of the report, the total num5 ber of refugee applicants of special interest and the num6 ber of refugee applicants of special interest whose applica7 tions were denied. 

8 (e) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—The Inspector 

9 General of the Department of Homeland Security shall 

10 conduct an annual risk-based review of a statistically valid 

11 sampling of certifications and provide an annual report de12 tailing its findings to the appropriate Congressional Com13 mittees. 

14 (f) DEFINITION.—In this Act: 

15 (1) The term ‘‘appropriate Congressional Com16 mittees’’ means— 

17 (A) the Committee on Armed Services of 

18 the Senate; 

19 (B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 

20 of the Senate; 

21 (C) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

22 Senate; 

23 (D) the Committee on Homeland Security 

24 and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 


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1 (E) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 

2 the Senate; 

3 (F) the Committee on Appropriations of 

4 the Senate; 

5 (G) the Committee on Armed Services of 

6 the House of Representatives; 

7 (H) the Permanent Select Committee on 

8 Intelligence of the House of Representatives; 

9 (I) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 

10 House of Representatives; 

11 (J) the Committee on Homeland Security 

12 of the House of Representatives; 

13 (K) the Committee on Appropriations of 

14 the House of Representatives; and 

15 (L) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 

16 the House of Representatives. 

17 (2) The term ‘‘refugee applicant of special in18 terest’’ means any alien applying for admission to 

19 the United States as a refugee who— 

20 (A) is a national or resident of Iraq or 

21 Syria; 

22 (B) has no nationality and whose last ha23 bitual residence was in Iraq or Syria; 

24 (C) has been present in Iraq or Syria at 

25 any time on or after March 1, 2011; or 


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1 (D) meets any other criteria the Secretary 

2 deems appropriate. 

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