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Presidential Determination No. 2009–32 of September 30, 2009 

Fiscal Year 2010 Refugee Admissions Numbers And Authorizations of In-country Refugee Status Pursuant To Sections 

207 And 101(A)(42), Respectively, of the Immigration And 

Nationality Act, And Determination Pursuant To Section 

2(B)(2) of the Migration And Refugee Assistance Act, As 

Amended 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State 

In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 

(the ‘‘Act’’) (8 U.S.C. 1157), as amended, and after appropriate consultations 

with the Congress, I hereby make the following determinations and authorize 

the following actions: 

The admission of up to 80,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2010 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in 

the national interest; provided that this number shall be understood as 

including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2010 with Federal 

refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions 

program, as provided below. 

The 80,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special 

humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the following 

regional allocations; provided that the number of admissions allocated to 

the East Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United States 

during FY 2010 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under section 

584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs 

Appropriations Act of 1988, as contained in section 101(e) of Public Law 

100–202 (Amerasian immigrants and their family members): 

Africa ................................................ 15,500 

East Asia ........................................... 17,000 

Europe and Central Asia ................. 2,500 

Latin America/Caribbean ................. 5,000 

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, as amended, 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 2010, 


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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 the former Soviet Union 

c. Persons in Iraq 

d. In exceptional circumstances, persons identified by a United States 

Embassy in any location 

You are authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress 

immediately and to publish it in the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, September 30, 2009. 

[FR Doc. E9–24686 

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