(2) CURRICULUM.—The training shall provide 
education on the processes pertaining to unaccom-
panied alien children with pending immigration sta-
tus and on the forms of relief potentially available. 
The Director shall be responsible for establishing a 
core curriculum that can be incorporated into edu-
cation, training, or orientation modules or formats 
that are currently used by these professionals. 
(b) TRAINING OF DIRECTORATE PERSONNEL.—The 
Secretary, acting jointly with the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, shall provide specialized training to all 
personnel of the Directorate who come into contact with 
unaccompanied alien children. Training for Border Patrol 
agents and immigration inspectors shall include specific 
training on identifying children at the United States bor-
ders or at United States ports of entry who have been 
victimized by smugglers or traffickers, and children for 
whom asylum or special immigrant relief may be appro-
priate, including children described in section 101(a)(2). 
SEC. 303. REPORT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall submit a report for the 
previous fiscal year to the Committee on the Judiciary of
the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives that contains—
(1) data related to the implementation of sec-
tion 462 of the Homeland Security Act (6 U.S.C. 
279); 
(2) data regarding the care and placement of 
children in accordance with this Act; 
(3) data regarding the provision of guardian ad 
litem and counsel services under this Act; and 
(4) any other information that the Director or 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services deter-
mines to be appropriate. 
SEC. 304. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendment made by section 301 shall apply to 
all aliens who were in the United States before, on, or 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
TITLE IV—CHILDREN REFUGEE 
AND ASYLUM SEEKERS 
SEC. 401. GUIDELINES FOR CHILDREN’S ASYLUM CLAIMS. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—Congress commends the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service for its issuance 
of its ‘‘Guidelines for Children’s Asylum Claims’’, dated 
December 1998, and encourages and supports the imple-
mentation of such guidelines by the Immigration and Nat-
uralization Service (and its successor entities) in an effort
to facilitate the handling of children’s asylum claims. Con-
gress calls upon the Executive Office for Immigration Re-
view of the Department of Justice to adopt the ‘‘Guide-
lines for Children’s Asylum Claims’’ in its handling of chil-
dren’s asylum claims before immigration judges and the 
Board of Immigration Appeals. 
(b) TRAINING.—The Secretary shall provide periodic 
comprehensive training under the ‘‘Guidelines for Chil-
dren’s Asylum Claims’’ to asylum officers, immigration 
judges, members of the Board of Immigration Appeals, 
and immigration officers who have contact with children 
in order to familiarize and sensitize such officers to the 
needs of children asylum seekers. Voluntary agencies shall 
be allowed to assist in such training. 
SEC. 402. UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE CHILDREN. 
(a) IDENTIFYING UNACCOMPANIED REFUGEE CHIL-
DREN.—Section 207(e) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(e)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), (5), 
(6), and (7) as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), and 
(8), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(3) An analysis of the worldwide situation 
faced by unaccompanied refugee children, by region, 
which shall include an assessment of—
‘‘(A) the number of unaccompanied refugee 
children, by region; 
‘‘(B) the capacity of the Department of 
State to identify such refugees; 
‘‘(C) the capacity of the international com-
munity to care for and protect such refugees; 
‘‘(D) the capacity of the voluntary agency 
community to resettle such refugees in the 
United States; 
‘‘(E) the degree to which the United States 
plans to resettle such refugees in the United 
States in the coming fiscal year; and 
‘‘(F) the fate that will befall such unac-
companied refugee children for whom resettle-
ment in the United States is not possible.’’. 
(b) TRAINING ON THE NEEDS OF UNACCOMPANIED 
REFUGEE CHILDREN.—Section 207(f)(2) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(f)(2)) is amended 
by—
(1) striking ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘countries,’’; and