Presidential Documents

73521 

Federal Register 

Vol. 88, No. 205 

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 

Title 3— 

The President 

Presidential Determination No. 2023–13 of September 29, 2023 

Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal 

Year 2024 

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) 2024 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. 260l(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 10l(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 2024, 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: 

1. Persons in Cuba; 

2. Persons in Eurasia and the Baltics; 

3. Persons in Iraq; 

4. Persons in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras; and 

5. 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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, September 29, 2023 

[FR Doc. 2023–23733 

Filed 10–24–23; 11:15 am] 

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