Presidential Documents

58991 

Federal Register 

Vol. 72, No. 201 

Thursday, October 18, 2007 

Title 3— 

The President 

Presidential Determination No. 2008–1 of October 2, 2007 

Presidential Determination on FY 2008 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 FY 

2008 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 2008 with Federal 

refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions 

program, as provided below. The ceiling shall be construed as a maximum 

not to be exceeded and not a minimum to be achieved. 

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, however, that the number of admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United 

States during FY 2008 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 ................................................ 16,000 

East Asia ........................................... 20,000 

Europe and Central Asia ................. 3,000 

Latin America/Caribbean ................. 3,000 

Near East/South Asia ....................... 28,000 

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 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. 


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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 2008, 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 Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, October 2, 2007. 

[FR Doc. 07–5171 

Filed 10–17–07; 8:45 am] 

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