(B) is following or accompanying to join 
the principal alien in the United States. 
(c) BENEFITS.—Aliens provided special immigrant 
status under this section shall be eligible for the same re-
settlement assistance, entitlement programs, and other 
benefits as refugees admitted under section 207 of the Im-
migration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1157). 
(d) PROTECTION
OF ALIENS.—The Secretary of 
State, in consultation with the heads of other relevant 
Federal agencies, shall provide an alien described in this 
section who is applying for a special immigrant visa with 
protection or the immediate removal from Iraq if the Sec-
retary determines that such alien fears reprisal, persecu-
tion, injury, or death to the alien or the alien’s family due 
to the employment or work of the alien referred to in para-
graph (1)(B). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $500,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010 to carry out this sec-
tion. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization 
shall be in addition to amounts otherwise available for 
such purposes. 
SEC. 8. EXPEDITED PROCESSING OF IRAQI REFUGEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Home-
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land Security, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, 
shall make every effort to streamline the screening and 
security investigations processes for assessing the eligi-
bility of Iraqi applicants for refugee status in the United 
States. 
(b) PRIORITIZATION.—In carrying out subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall— 
(1) give priority to Iraqis who— 
(A) were employed by the United States 
Government, United States companies, and 
nongovernmental organizations; or 
(B) are members of particularly vulnerable 
refugee populations, including Iraqis from eth-
nically mixed families and Iraqis who are mem-
bers of religious or other minority groups; and 
(2) increase by 100 percent the number of per-
sonnel of the Department of Homeland Security who 
conduct security reviews of Iraqi applicants for ref-
ugee status in the United States. 
(c) NUMBERS.—For each of fiscal years 2008, 2009, 
and 2010, up to 20,000 Iraqis may be accepted into the 
United States as refugees under this section. 
SEC. 9. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. 
The Secretary of State, in cooperation with the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, shall work with the inter-
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national community, including the United Nations, the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the 
European Union, the Organization of American States, 
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and others 
to establish mechanisms to provide— 
(1) financial assistance to Iraqi refugee and 
IDP populations through bilateral assistance to host 
governments or through international organizations 
that are working directly with such refugee and in-
ternally displaced populations; 
(2) technical and financial assistance to inter-
national organizations in order to process refugees; 
and 
(3) increased attention to and advocacy on be-
half of Iraqi refugees and IDPs by continuing to 
strongly support the work of the UNHCR and its 
donor conferences. 
SEC. 10. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act and every six months thereafter, the Sec-
retary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
a report regarding implementation of this Act, including— 
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(1) assistance and funding to host countries 
and international aid organizations and nongovern-
mental organizations pursuant to section 5, and ac-
countability reports regarding how such funds are 
being expended; 
(2) measures taken by the United States to in-
crease its capabilities to process Iraqi refugees for 
resettlement and the number of Iraqi refugees reset-
tled under sections 7 and 8; and 
(3) an evaluation of the effectiveness of meas-
ures implemented by agencies of the Government of 
Iraq to provide direct assistance to IDPs and Iraqi 
refugees in neighboring countries. 
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