[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 33 (Monday, August 23, 1999)]
[Pages 1634-1635]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Additional Refugee Admissions

August 12, 1999

Presidential Determination No. 99-33

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Emergency Presidential Determination on Additional FY 99 
Refugee Admissions Numbers Pursuant to Section 207(b) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act

    In accordance with section 207(b) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157(b)), and after appropriate 
consultations with the Congress, I hereby determine that an unforeseen 
refugee emergency exists in Europe, and that the admission to the United 
States of Kosovar refugees in response to this emergency is justified by 
grave humanitarian concerns and is in the national interest. The 
admission of these refugees cannot be accomplished under the worldwide 
refugee admissions ceiling of 78,000 for Fiscal Year 1999, as authorized 
in Presidential Determination 98-39 of September 30, 1998, and an 
increase to 91,000 is warranted. The revised regional allocations are as 
follows:

  Africa                                                          12,000
  East Asia                                                        9,000
  Europe                                                          61,000
  Latin America/Caribbean                                          3,000

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  Near East/South Asia                                             4,000
  Unallocated                                                      2,000
 
 

    The provisions of Presidential Determination 98-39 are retained, 
except to the extent superseded by this determination.
    You are hereby directed to report this determination to the Congress 
immediately and to publish it in the Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
August 16.