[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 41 (Monday, October 16, 2006)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Presidential Determination on FY 2007 Refugee Admissions Numbers and 
Authorizations of In-Country Refugee Status

October 11, 2006

 Presidential Determination No. 2007-01

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination on FY 2007 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

    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 70,000 refugees to the United States during 
FY 2007 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the 
national interest; provided, however, that this number shall be 
understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 
2007 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian 
immigrant admissions program, as provided below. The ceiling shall be 
construed as a maximum not to be exceeded, and not a minimum to be 
achieved.
    The 70,000 admissions shall be allocated among refugees of special 
humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the 
following regional allocations; provided, however, that the number of 
admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons 
admitted to the United States during FY 2007 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); provided further that the number of 
admissions allocated to the former Soviet Union shall include persons 
admitted who were nationals of the former Soviet Union,

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or in the case of persons having no nationality, who were habitual 
residents of the former Soviet Union prior to September 2, 1991:

  Africa......................................................    22,000
  East Asia...................................................    11,000
  Europe and Central Asia.....................................     6,500
  Latin America/Caribbean.....................................     5,000
  Near East/South Asia........................................     5,500
  Unallocated Reserve.........................................    20,000
 

    The 20,000 unallocated refugee admissions 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 2007, 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 Vietnam
    b. Persons in Cuba
    c. Persons in the former Soviet Union
    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.
                                                George W. Bush