I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4079 
To require that supplemental certifications and identity verifications be 
completed prior to the admission of refugees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2015 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Ms. LOFGREN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
GALLEGO, 
Mr. 
TED
LIEU
of 
California, 
Mr. 
MOULTON, 
Ms. 
DUCKWORTH, Mr. SMITH of Washington, and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To require that supplemental certifications and identity 
verifications be completed prior to the admission of refu-
gees, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Secure Refugee Proc-
ess Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL LIMITATIONS ON ADMISSION OF 
REFUGEES. 
(a) IDENTITY VERIFICATION REQUIRED.—No alien 
shall be admitted as a refugee, until the alien has satisfac-
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torily established his identity pursuant to procedures es-
tablished by the Secretary of Homeland Security, which 
shall address any insufficient, conflicting, or unreliable in-
formation, including biographic and biometric data that 
has not been resolved at the time of admission. 
(b) COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
OF REFUGEES TO 
IDENTIFY
SECURITY
THREATS
TO
THE
UNITED 
STATES.—No alien shall be admitted as a refugee, if, by 
the time of admission, the alien’s identity has not been 
checked against all relevant records or databases main-
tained by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attor-
ney General (including the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion), the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, 
the Director of National Intelligence, and other Federal 
records or databases that the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity considers necessary, to determine any national secu-
rity, criminal, or other grounds on which the alien may 
be inadmissible to the United States. 
(c) CERTIFICATION REQUIRED.—An alien may only 
be admitted to the United States as a refugee after the 
Secretary of Homeland Security certifies that all provi-
sions of this Act have been complied with and that the 
alien has not been firmly resettled in a safe third country 
as described in section 208(b)(2)(A)(vi) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act. 
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(d) MONTHLY REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security shall submit to the appro-
priate Congressional Committees a monthly report on, for 
the month preceding the date of the report, the total num-
ber of refugee applicants of special interest and the num-
ber of refugee applicants of special interest whose applica-
tions were denied. 
(e) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—The Inspector 
General of the Department of Homeland Security shall 
conduct an annual risk-based review of a statistically valid 
sampling of certifications and provide an annual report de-
tailing its findings to the appropriate Congressional Com-
mittees. 
(f) DEFINITION.—In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘appropriate Congressional Com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Armed Services of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Select Committee on Intelligence 
of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate; 
(D) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
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