Immigration Benefits: Fourth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee
Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (Correspondence, 10/20/2000,
GAO/GAO-01-118R).

The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 authorizes Haitian
nationals and their dependents to apply to change their status to legal
permanent residence. This report, the fourth done in response to the
act, contains a breakdown on the numbers of Haitians who applied and the
number who were approved as asylum applicants, parolees, children
without parents, orphaned children, abandoned children, or as the
eligible dependents of these applicants (i.e., spouses, children, and
unmarried sons or daughters). The Immigration and Naturalization Service
had received a total of 35,257 applications under the act and had
approved 263 of these applications. The Executive Office for Immigration
Review had 95 applications filed and had approved 65 of them.

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 REPORTNUM:  GAO-01-118R
     TITLE:  Immigration Benefits: Fourth Report Required by the
	     Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998
      DATE:  10/20/2000
   SUBJECT:  Immigration and naturalization law
	     Refugees
	     Citizenship
	     Immigrants
	     Immigration information systems