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Presidential Papers, October 2013
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General SummaryFrom the daily compilation of publically released papers of President Barack H. Obama.
Memorandum on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2014
October 2, 2013
Presidential Determination No. 2014–01
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
Subject: Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2014
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 fiscal year (FY) 2014 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest; provided that this number shall be understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2014 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions program, as provided below.
The 70,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the following regional allocations; provided that the number of admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United States during FY 2014 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):
Africa.................................................. 15,000
East Asia............................................. 14,000
Europe and Central Asia..................... 1,000
Latin America/Caribbean................... 5,000
Near East/South Asia......................... 33,000
Unallocated Reserve............................ 2,000
The 2,000 unallocated refugee numbers 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 2014, 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
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.
BARACK OBAMA
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., October 18, 2013]
NOTE: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on October 21.
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Chicago: Barack H. Obama, "Memorandum on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2014," Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013] in Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013] (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1, 2013), Original Sources, accessed November 21, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MJXR37MLRPEZ4JC.
MLA: Obama, Barack H. "Memorandum on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2014." Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013], in Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013], Washington D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1, 2013, Original Sources. 21 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MJXR37MLRPEZ4JC.
Harvard: Obama, BH, 'Memorandum on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2014' in Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013]. cited in October 1, 2013, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents [Collected for October 2013], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.. Original Sources, retrieved 21 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=MJXR37MLRPEZ4JC.
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