[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 196 (Wednesday, October 11, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 53091-53092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25377]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 196 / Wednesday, October 11, 1995 /
Presidential Documents
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Presidential Determination No. 95-48 of September 29,
1995
Presidential Determination on FY 1996 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 consultation with the
Congress, I hereby make the following determinations
and authorize the following actions:
The admission of up to 90,000 refugees to the United
States during FY 1996 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 1996 with Federal refugee resettlement
assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions
program, as provided below.
The 90,000 funded admissions shall be allocated among
refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United
States as described in the documentation presented to
the Congress during the consultations that preceded
this determination and in accordance with the following
regional allocations; provided, however, that the
number allocated to the East Asia region shall include
persons admitted to the United States during FY 1996
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 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............................ 7,000
East Asia......................... 25,000
Former Soviet Union/Eastern Europe 45,000
Latin America/Caribbean........... 6,000
Near East/South Asia.............. 4,000
Unallocated Reserve............... 3,000
The 3,000 unallocated numbers shall be allocated as
needed. Unused admissions numbers allocated to a
particular region within the 90,000 ceiling may be
transferred to one or more other regions if there is an
overriding need for greater numbers for the region or
regions to which the numbers are being transferred. You
are hereby authorized and directed to consult with the
judiciary committees of the Congress prior to any such
use of the unallocated numbers or reallocation of
numbers from one region to another.
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Pursuant to section 2(b)(2) of the Migration and
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, as amended, 22 U.S.C.
2601(b)(2), 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.
An additional 10,000 refugee admissions numbers
shall be made available during FY 1996 for the
adjustment to permanent-resident status under section
209(b) of the Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)) of aliens who have
been granted asylum in the United States under section
208 of the Act (8 U.S.C. 1158), as this is justified by
humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national
interest. 8,131 aliens were granted asylum during FY
1994 under section 208 of the Act.
In accordance 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 1996,
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
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, September 29, 1995.
[FR Doc. 95-25377
Filed 10-10-95; 9:51 am]
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