Security, shall implement the plan contained in the report 
under subsection (a). 
SEC. 6. REPORTS. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually there-
after through 2018, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall submit to 
Congress an unclassified report, with a classified annex 
if necessary, which includes— 
(1) an assessment of the financial, security, and 
personnel considerations and resources necessary to 
carry out the provisions of this Act; 
(2) the number of aliens described in section 
3(a); 
(3) the number of such aliens who have applied 
for admission to the United States as a refugee 
under section 207 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) using the processes under 
section 2; and 
(4) in the case of such applications pending for 
longer than 180 days, the reason that refugee status 
has not been granted in each such case. 
(b) REPORT
ON
VIDEO-CONFERENCE
REFUGEE 
INTERVIEWS.—Not later than 120 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Se-
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curity, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 
submit to Congress an unclassified report, with a classified 
annex if necessary, which includes— 
(1) the number of aliens who applied for admis-
sion as a refugee under section 207 of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157) in 2014 
who are awaiting interviews in locations inaccessible 
to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offi-
cers; 
(2) the number of locations worldwide to which 
Refugee Corps Officer circuit rides were suspended 
in 2014 due to security considerations; and 
(3) a proposal for how to implement interviews 
via video-conference for aliens who applied for ad-
mission the United States as a refugee under section 
207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1157), who currently reside in locations 
where Refugee Corps circuit rides have been sus-
pended. 
SEC. 7. POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 
It is the policy of the United States government that 
when conflict arises, the United States, working in concert 
with the international community, should undertake its 
best efforts to protect local populations and enable them 
to remain in their home countries or neighboring host 
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countries in safety and dignity; that when such conflicts 
produce forced international displacement, the United 
States government should contribute to efforts to provide 
a safe environment for displaced populations in their host 
countries until they can be safely and humanely repatri-
ated once the conflict is over; that, in cases where refugees 
have been allowed by a host country to remain perma-
nently in such country, the United States government 
should encourage such countries to integrate such refugees 
in safety and dignity; and that, in the case of refugees 
facing strong vulnerabilities during or after the conflict 
who determine that their best durable solution is third 
country resettlement, the United States, working with the 
international community, should do all it can to facilitate 
access to resettlement in another country, including reset-
tlement to the United States when such refugees are of 
special humanitarian concern to the United States, such 
as the most vulnerable and those with family members in 
the United States. 
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