I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2146 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President 
to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 9, 2019 
Ms. LOFGREN (for herself, Mr. NEGUSE, Mr. NADLER, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. MCGOV-
ERN, Mr. MEEKS, Ms. NORTON, Mr. RASKIN, and Ms. SHALALA) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require 
the President to set a minimum annual goal for the 
number of refugees to be admitted, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Guaranteed Refugee 
Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act’’ or the ‘‘GRACE 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ADMISSION OF REFUGEES. 
Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1157) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (1); 
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and 
(4) as paragraphs (1) and (6), respectively; 
(C) in paragraph (1), as redesignated— 
(i) by striking ‘‘after fiscal year 
1982’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘is justified’’ and all 
that follows through ‘‘interest.’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘is— 
‘‘(A) justified by humanitarian concerns or oth-
erwise in the national interest; and 
‘‘(B) not less than 95,000. 
‘‘(2) Each officer of the Federal Government respon-
sible for refugee admissions or refugee resettlement shall 
treat a determination under paragraph (1) and subsection 
(b) as the numerical goals for refugee admissions under 
this section for the applicable fiscal year.’’; and 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (3) the 
following: 
‘‘(4) In making a determination under paragraph (1), 
the President shall consider the number of refugees who, 
during the calendar year beginning immediately after the 
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beginning of the applicable fiscal year, are in need of reset-
tlement in a third country, as determined by the United 
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the most re-
cently published projected global resettlement needs re-
port. 
‘‘(5) The President shall determine regional alloca-
tions for admissions under this subsection, which shall— 
‘‘(A) consider the projected needs identified by 
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 
in the projected global resettlement needs report for 
the calendar year beginning immediately after the 
beginning of the applicable fiscal year; and 
‘‘(B) include an unallocated reserve that the 
Secretary of State, after notifying the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, may 
use for one or more regions in which the need for 
additional refugee admissions arises.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) QUARTERLY REPORTS ON ADMISSIONS.—Not 
later than 15 days after the last day of each quarter, the 
President shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives a report that includes the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(1) REFUGEES ADMITTED.— 
‘‘(A) The number of refugees admitted to 
the United States during the preceding quarter. 
‘‘(B) The number of refugees admitted to 
the United States during the preceding quarter, 
expressed as a percentage of the number of ref-
ugees authorized to be admitted in accordance 
with the determinations under subsections (a) 
and (b) for the applicable fiscal year. 
‘‘(C) The cumulative number of refugees 
admitted to the United States during the appli-
cable fiscal year, as of the last day of the pre-
ceding quarter. 
‘‘(D) The number of refugees to be admit-
ted to the United States during the remainder 
of the applicable fiscal year so as to achieve the 
numerical goals set forth in the determinations 
under subsections (a) and (b) for such fiscal 
year. 
‘‘(E) The number of refugees from each 
region admitted to the United States during the 
preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of 
the allocation for each region under subsection 
(a)(5) for the applicable fiscal year. 
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‘‘(2) ALIENS WITH SECURITY ADVISORY OPIN-
IONS.— 
‘‘(A) The number of aliens, by nationality, 
for whom a Security Advisory Opinion has been 
requested who were security-cleared during the 
preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of 
all cases successfully adjudicated by the Direc-
tor of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services in the applicable fiscal year. 
‘‘(B) The number of aliens, by nationality, 
for whom a Security Advisory Opinion has been 
requested who were admitted to the United 
States during the preceding quarter. 
‘‘(3) CIRCUIT RIDES.— 
‘‘(A) For the preceding quarter— 
‘‘(i) the number of Refugee Corps of-
ficers deployed on circuit rides, expressed 
as a percentage of the overall number of 
Refugee Corps officers; 
‘‘(ii) the number of individuals inter-
viewed— 
‘‘(I) on each circuit ride; and 
‘‘(II) at each circuit ride location; 
‘‘(iii) the number of circuit rides; and 
‘‘(iv) for each circuit ride— 
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