Presidential Documents

49083 

Federal Register 

Vol. 82, No. 203 

Monday, October 23, 2017 

Title 3— 

The President 

Presidential Determination No. 2017–13 of September 29, 2017 

Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal 

Year 2018 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act (the ‘‘Act’’) (8 U.S.C. 1157), after appropriate consultations with the Congress, and consistent with the Report on Proposed Refugee 

Admissions for Fiscal Year 2018 submitted to the Congress on September 

27, 2017, I hereby determine and authorize as follows: 

The admission of up to 45,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2018 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in 

the national interest. This number includes persons admitted to the United 

States during FY 2018 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under 

the Amerasian immigrant admissions program, as provided below. 

The admissions shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian 

concern to the United States in accordance with the following regional 

allocations: 

Africa ................................................ 19,000 

East Asia ........................................... 5,000 

Europe and Central Asia ................. 2,000 

Latin America/Caribbean ................. 1,500 

Near East/South Asia ....................... 17,500 

The number of admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include 

persons admitted to the United States during FY 2018 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). 

Additionally, you are authorized, following notification of the appropriate 

committees of the Congress, to transfer unused admissions allocated to a 

region to one or more other regions, if greater admissions are needed for 

such region or regions. 

Consistent with section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance 

Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(b)), 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 I accordingly 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 2018, 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 

c. persons in Iraq 

d. persons in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador 


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

exceptional circumstances. 

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

Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, September 29, 2017 

[FR Doc. 2017–23140 

Filed 10–20–17; 11:15 am] 

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