Presidential Documents

58865 

Federal Register 

Vol. 73, No. 195 

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 

Title 3— 

The President 

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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, September 30, 2008 

[FR Doc. E8–23950 

Filed 10–6–08; 11:30 am] 

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