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[Federal Register: November 1, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 211)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 64435-64436]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01no06-147]
Presidential Documents
[[Page 64435]]
Presidential Determination No. 2007-1 of October 11,
2006
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
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
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, 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............................................ 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
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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.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, October 11, 2006.
[FR Doc. 06-9028
Filed 10-31-06; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P
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