Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 70, No. 210 

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 

Title 3— 

The President 

Presidential Determination No. 2006–3 of October 24, 2005 

Presidential Determination on FY 2006 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 70,000 refugees to the United States during FY 

2006 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national 

interest; provided, however, that this number shall be understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2006 with Federal 

refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions 

program, as provided below. 

The 70,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special 

humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the following 

regional allocations; provided, however, that the number allocated to the 

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

FY 2006 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); provided further 

that the number allocated to the former Soviet Union shall include persons 

admitted who were nationals of the former Soviet Union, or in the case 

of persons having no nationality, who were habitual residents of the former 

Soviet Union, prior to September 2, 1991: 

Africa ................................................ 20,000 

East Asia ........................................... 15,000 

Europe and Central Asia ................. 15,000 

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

Near East/South Asia ....................... 5,000 

Unallocated Reserve ........................ 10,000 

The 10,000 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 numbers in regions 

where the need for additional numbers arises. 

Additionally, upon notification to the Judiciary Committees of the Congress, 

you are further authorized to transfer unused admission numbers allocated 

to a particular region to one or more other regions, if there is a need 

for greater numbers for the region or regions to which the numbers 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 

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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 2006, 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 Vietnam 

b. Persons in Cuba 

c. Persons in the former Soviet Union 

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 

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Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, October 24, 2005. 

[FR Doc. 05–21862 

Filed 10–31–05; 8:45 am] 

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