[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 52385-52386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24686]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 13, 2009 /
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Presidential Determination No. 2009-32 of September 30,
2009
Fiscal Year 2010 Refugee Admissions Numbers And
Authorizations of In-country Refugee Status Pursuant To
Sections 207 And 101(A)(42), Respectively, of the
Immigration And Nationality Act, And Determination
Pursuant To Section 2(B)(2) of the Migration And
Refugee Assistance Act, As Amended
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157), as
amended, and after appropriate consultations with the
Congress, I hereby make the following determinations
and authorize the following actions:
The admission of up to 80,000 refugees to the United
States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 is justified by
humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national
interest; provided that this number shall be understood
as including persons admitted to the United States
during FY 2010 with Federal refugee resettlement
assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions
program, as provided below.
The 80,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among
refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United
States in accordance with the following regional
allocations; provided that the number of admissions
allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons
admitted to the United States during FY 2010 with
Federal refugee resettlement assistance under section
584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1988, as
contained in section 101(e) of Public Law 100-202
(Amerasian immigrants and their family members):
Africa................................................. 15,500 ......
East Asia.............................................. 17,000 ......
Europe and Central Asia................................ 2,500 ......
Latin America/Caribbean................................ 5,000 ......
Near East/South Asia................................... 35,000 ......
Unallocated Reserve.................................... 5,000 ......
The 5,000 unallocated refugee numbers shall be
allocated to regional ceilings, as needed. Upon
providing notification to the Judiciary Committees of
the Congress, you are hereby authorized to use
unallocated admissions in regions where the need for
additional admissions arises.
Additionally, upon notification to the Judiciary
Committees of the Congress, you are further authorized
to transfer unused admissions allocated to a particular
region to one or more other regions, if there is a need
for greater admissions for the region or regions to
which the admissions are being transferred. Consistent
with section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and Refugee
Assistance Act of 1962, as amended, I hereby determine
that assistance to or on behalf of persons applying for
admission to the United States as part of the overseas
refugee admissions program will contribute to the
foreign policy interests of the United States and
designate such persons for this purpose.
Consistent with section 101(a)(42) of the Act (8
U.S.C.1101(a)(42)), and after appropriate consultation
with the Congress, I also specify that, for FY 2010,
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the following persons may, if otherwise qualified, be
considered refugees for the purpose of admission to the
United States within their countries of nationality or
habitual residence:
a. Persons in Cuba
b. Persons in the former Soviet Union
c. Persons in Iraq
d. In exceptional circumstances, persons identified by a United States
Embassy in any location
You are authorized and directed to report this
determination to the Congress immediately and to
publish it in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, September 30, 2009.
[FR Doc. E9-24686
Filed 10-9-09; 8:45 am]
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