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Presidential Determination No. 2014–17 of September 30, 2014 

Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal 

Year 2015 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State 

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 70,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2015 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in 

the national interest; provided that this number shall be understood as 

including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2015 with Federal 

refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions 

program, as provided below. 

The admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the following regional 

allocations; provided that the number of admissions allocated to the East 

Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United States during 

FY 2015 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 ................................................ 17,000 

East Asia ........................................... 13,000 

Europe and Central Asia ................. 1,000 

Latin America and Caribbean ......... 4,000 

Near East and South Asia ................ 33,000 

Unallocated Reserve ........................ 2,000 

The 2,000 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, 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 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 2015, 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 Cuba 

b. Persons in Eurasia and the Baltics 

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c. Persons in Iraq 

d. Persons in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador 

e. In exceptional circumstances, persons identified by a United States 

Embassy in any location 

You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the Federal 

Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, September 30, 2014 

[FR Doc. 2014–27860 

Filed 11–20–14; 11:15 am] 

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