[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 32 (Monday, August 16, 1999)]
[Pages 1628-1629]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on FY 2000 Refugee Admissions Consultations

August 12, 1999

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: FY 2000 Refugee Admissions Consultations

    In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (INA), you are authorized to consult with the appropriate committees 
of the Congress concerning refugee admissions as follows:
    1. The authorization of 90,000 refugee admissions during FY 2000, 
which would be allocated by specific region as follows: 18,000 for 
Africa; 8,000 for East Asia (including Amerasians); 3,000 for Latin 
America and the Caribbean; 8,000 for the Near East and South Asia; 
47,000 for Europe; (including 27,000 for the former Yugoslavia and 
20,000 for the Newly Independent and Baltic states); and 6,000 for the 
Unallocated Reserve. The recommended level of funded admissions is equal 
to the level assumed in the FY 2000 budget request (80,000) plus those 
covered by the Kosovo supplemental (10,000).
    2. The authorization of an additional 10,000 refugee admission 
numbers to be made available for the adjustment to permanent resident 
status of persons who have been granted asylum in the United States.
    3. The designation, pursuant to section 101(a)(42)(B) of the INA, of 
persons in Cuba, Vietnam, and the former Soviet Union, who, if they 
otherwise qualify for admission as refugees, may be considered refugees 
under the INA even though they are still within their country of 
nationality or habitual residence.
                                            William J. Clinton
cc: The Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services

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