Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title VI - General Public Assistance Provisions › Chapter 61 - Refugee Services Program › Rule 441-61.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Bureau"
means the bureau of refugee
				  services within the department.
"Bureau chief"
shall mean the chief of the
				  bureau of refugee services.
"Cash assistance"
means financial assistance
				  to refugees, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF),
				  supplemental security income (SSI), refugee cash assistance and general
				  assistance as defined in 42 CFR 400.2 as amended to June 7, 2022.
"Client"
means refugees or others determined
				  eligible for services funded under the refugee program.
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				  human services.
"Director"
means the director of the
				  department of human services or a designee.
"Family self-sufficiency plan"
means a plan
				  that addresses the employment-related service needs of the employable members
				  in a family for the purpose of enabling the family to become self-supporting
				  through the employment of one or more family members. A family self-sufficiency
				  plan shall be developed for anyone who receives employment-related services
				  from the bureau.
"Individual employability plan"
means a
				  written plan outlining an individual's vocational goal and the services to be
				  provided to reach the goal.
"Iowa state refugee program coordinator"
means the director, serving as the refugee program administrator, as appointed
				  by the governor to administer programs funded and required by the Office of
				  Refugee Resettlement within the United States Department of Health and Human
				  Services.
"Iowa state refugee program plan"
means the
				  report that describes the state of Iowa's refugee program plan to meet the
				  standards, goals, and priorities required under the Immigration and Nationality
				  Act and developed by the bureau on the basis of a consultative process for the
				  successful resettlement of refugees. The bureau chief must certify no later
				  than 30 days after the beginning of each federal fiscal year that the approved
				  plan is current and continues in effect. If the bureau wishes to change its
				  plan, the bureau must submit a proposed amendment to the plan to be reviewed
				  and approved or disapproved by the office of refugee resettlement.
"Office of refugee resettlement"
means a
				  federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services
				  with the legislative authority to be responsible for ensuring the coordination
				  of federal resources in refugee resettlement.
"Refugee"
means any person who:
1. Is outside any country of the person's nationality or, in
				  the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which the
				  person last habitually resided; and
2. Is unable or unwilling to return to that country and
				  unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of that
				  country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account
				  of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or
				  political opinion, as defined under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Title
				  I, Section 101.
In special circumstances, the President of the United States
				  may specify any person who is within the country of such person's nationality
				  or, in the case of a person having no nationality, within the country in which
				  such person is habitually residing, and who is persecuted or who has a
				  well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,
				  membership in a particular social group or political opinion as a
				  refugee.
The term "refugee" does not include any person who ordered,
				  incited, assisted or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on
				  account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group
				  or political opinion.
"Refugee unit"
means either an individual
				  refugee or two or more refugees representing an identifiable group, as
				  determined by the bureau of refugee services.
"Resettlement agency"
means any business,
				  organization or group of related persons having a current contract with the
				  United States Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and
				  Migration for the resettlement of refugees within the United States of
				  America.
"Unaccompanied refugee minor (URM)"
means a
				  person who has not yet attained 18 years of age who entered the United States
				  unaccompanied by and not destined to (1) a parent, or (2) a close non-parental
				  adult relative who is willing and able to care for the child, or (3) an adult
				  with a clear and court-verifiable claim to custody of the minor, and who has no
				  parents in the United States.