[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 1737]
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[FR Doc No: 2021-00409]



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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

RIN 1615-AC42

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Executive Office for Immigration Review

8 CFR Parts 1235

[EOIR Docket No. 18-0102; A.G. Order No. 4922-2020]
RIN 1125-AA94


Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear 
and Reasonable Fear Review

AGENCY: Department of Homeland Security; Executive Office for 
Immigration Review, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Justice is correcting a final rule that 
appeared in the Federal Register on December 11, 2020. That document 
amended Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice 
(``the Departments'') regulations governing credible fear 
determinations. Individuals found to have a credible fear will have 
their claims for asylum, withholding of removal under Immigration and 
Nationality or protection under the regulations issued pursuant to the 
legislation implementing the Convention Against Torture and Other 
Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adjudicated by an 
immigration judge within the Executive Office for Immigration Review in 
streamlined proceedings (rather than under section 240 of the Act). The 
final rule also specifid what standard of review applies in such 
streamlined proceedings.

DATES: Effective on January 11, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lauren Alder Reid, Assistant Director, 
Office of Policy, Executive Office for Immigration Review, 5107 
Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041, telephone (703) 305-0289 (not a 
toll-free call).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Rule Doc. 2020-26875, appearing on 
page 80400 in the Federal Register of Friday, December 11, 2020, the 
following correction is made:


Sec.  1235.6   [Corrected]

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1. On page 80400, in the third column, in part 1235, in amendatory 
instruction 38c is corrected to read ``Revising paragraphs (a)(2)(i) 
and (iii); and''.

    Dated: January 7, 2021.
Rosemary Hart,
Special Counsel and Liaison to the Federal Register.
[FR Doc. 2021-00409 Filed 1-8-21; 8:45 am]
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