[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 7, 2008)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 58865-58866]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-23950]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 195 / Tuesday, October 7, 2008 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Presidential Determination No. 2008-29 of September 30, 
                2008

                
Fiscal Year 2009 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 [and] the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security

                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) 2009 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 2009 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 
                2009 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.................................................  12,000                  ......
                                                                 East Asia..............................................  19,000                  ......
                                                                 Europe and Central Asia................................  2,500                   ......
                                                                 Latin America/Caribbean................................  4,500                   ......
                                                                 Near East/South Asia...................................  37,000                  ......
                                                                 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, the Secretary of State is 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, the Secretary of State is 
                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 2009, 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. Persons in Iraq

e. In exceptional circumstances, persons identified by a United States 
Embassy in any location

                The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to 
                report this determination to the Congress immediately 
                and to publish it in the Federal Register.
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                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, September 30, 2008

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