Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2019

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 212 (Thursday, November 1, 2018)]

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November 1, 2018

Part III

The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2019-01 of October 4, 2018--Presidential

Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2019

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The President

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Presidential Determination No. 2019-01 of October 4,

2018

Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions

for Fiscal Year 2019

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States, in

accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and

Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157), after

appropriate consultations with the Congress, and

consistent with the Report on Proposed Refugee

Admissions for Fiscal Year 2019 submitted to the

Congress on September 17, 2018, I hereby determine and

authorize as follows:

of the Immigration and

Nationality Act (the ``Act'') (8 U.S.C. 1157), after

appropriate consultations with the Congress, and

consistent with the Report on Proposed Refugee

Admissions for Fiscal Year 2019 submitted to the

Congress on September 17, 2018, I hereby determine and

authorize as follows:

The admission of up to 30,000 refugees to the United

States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 is justified by

humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national

interest. This number includes persons admitted to the

United States during FY 2019 with Federal refugee

resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant

admissions program, as provided below.

The admissions shall be allocated among refugees of

special humanitarian concern to the United States in

accordance with the following regional allocations:

Africa................................................. 11,000 ......

East Asia.............................................. 4,000 ......

Europe and Central Asia................................ 3,000 ......

Latin America/Caribbean................................ 3,000 ......

Near East/South Asia................................... 9,000 ......

Europe and Central Asia................................ 3,000 ......

Latin America/Caribbean................................ 3,000 ......

Near East/South Asia................................... 9,000 ......

The number of admissions allocated to the East Asia

region shall include persons admitted to the United

States during FY 2019 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).

Additionally, you are authorized, following

notification of the appropriate committees of the

Congress, to transfer unused admissions allocated to a

region to one or more other regions, if greater

admissions are needed for such region or regions.

Consistent with section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and

Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(b)), 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 I accordingly designate such persons

for this purpose.

C. 2601(b)), 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 I accordingly 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 2019, 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 Cuba

b. persons in Eurasia and the Baltics

c. persons in Iraq

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d. persons in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador

e. persons identified by a United States Embassy in

any location, in exceptional circumstances.

You are authorized and directed to publish this

determination in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, October 4, 2018

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