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22 U.S.C. § 6473a — Reform of refugee policy
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**(a) , (b) Omitted**
**(c) Guidelines for refugee-processing posts**
(1) **Guidelines for addressing hostile biases** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop and implement guidelines that address potential biases in personnel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and of the Department of State that are hired abroad and involved with duties which could constitute an effective barrier to a refugee claim if such personnel carries a bias against the claimant on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The subject matter of this training should be culturally sensitive and tailored to provide a nonbiased, nonadversarial atmosphere for the purpose of refugee adjudications.
(2) **Guidelines for refugee-processing posts in establishing agreements with United States Government-designated refugee processing entities** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop and implement guidelines to ensure uniform procedures for establishing agreements with United States Government-designated refugee processing entities and personnel, and uniform procedures for such entities and personnel responsible for preparing refugee case files for use by the Immigration and Naturalization Service during refugee adjudications. These procedures should ensure, to the extent practicable, that case files prepared by such entities accurately reflect information provided by the refugee applicants and that genuine refugee applicants are not disadvantaged or denied refugee status due to faulty case file preparation.
(3) **Guidelines for preventing persons with potential biases from participating in determinations** — Not later than 120 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary of State (a
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**(a) , (b) Omitted**
**(c) Guidelines for refugee-processing posts**
(1) **Guidelines for addressing hostile biases** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop and implement guidelines that address potential biases in personnel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and of the Department of State that are hired abroad and involved with duties which could constitute an effective barrier to a refugee claim if such personnel carries a bias against the claimant on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The subject matter of this training should be culturally sensitive and tailored to provide a nonbiased, nonadversarial atmosphere for the purpose of refugee adjudications.
(2) **Guidelines for refugee-processing posts in establishing agreements with United States Government-designated refugee processing entities** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop and implement guidelines to ensure uniform procedures for establishing agreements with United States Government-designated refugee processing entities and personnel, and uniform procedures for such entities and personnel responsible for preparing refugee case files for use by the Immigration and Naturalization Service during refugee adjudications. These procedures should ensure, to the extent practicable, that case files prepared by such entities accurately reflect information provided by the refugee applicants and that genuine refugee applicants are not disadvantaged or denied refugee status due to faulty case file preparation.
(3) **Guidelines for preventing persons with potential biases from participating in determinations** — Not later than 120 days after November 29, 1999, the Secretary of State (after consultation with the Attorney General) shall issue guidelines to ensure that persons with potential biases against any refugee applicant, including persons employed by, or otherwise subject to influence by, governments known to be involved in persecution on account of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, shall not in any way be used in processing determinations of refugee status, including interpretation of conversations or examination of documents presented by such applicants.
**(d) Annual consultation** The President shall include in each annual report on proposed refugee admissions under [section 1157(d) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1157/d&num=0&edition=prelim) information about religious persecution of refugee populations eligible for consideration for admission to the United States. The Secretary of State shall include information on religious persecution of refugee populations in the formal testimony presented to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate during the consultation process under [section 1157(e) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1157/e&num=0&edition=prelim).
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There is created and established in the Department of Justice an Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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**(a) Maximum number of admissions; increases for humanitarian concerns; allocations**
(1) Except as provided in subsection (b), the number of refugees who may be admitted under this section in fiscal year 1980, 1981, or 1982, may not exceed fifty thousand unless the President determines, before the beginning of the fiscal year and after appropriate consultation (as defined in subsection (e)), that admission of a specific number of refugees in excess of such number is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (b), the number of refugees who may be admitted under this section in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1982 shall be such number as the President determines, before the beginning of the fiscal year and after appropriate consultation, is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.
(3) Admissions under this subsection shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with a determination made by the President after appropriate consultation.
(4) In the determination made under this subsection for each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1992), the President shall enumerate, with the respective number of refugees so determined, the number of aliens who were granted asylum in the previous year.
**(b) Determinations by President respecting number of admissions for humanitarian concerns** If the President determines, after appropriate consultation, that (1) an unforeseen emergency refugee situation exists, (2) the admission of certain refugees in response to the emergency refugee situation is justified by grave humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest, and (3) the admission to the United
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**(a) Human rights, religious freedom, and human trafficking training**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary of State, with the assistance of other relevant officials, such as the Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom appointed under [section 6411(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section6411/b&num=0&edition=prelim), the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, and the director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall establish as part of the standard training provided after January 1, 1999, for officers of the Service, including chiefs of mission, instruction in the field of internationally recognized human rights. Such training shall include—
(A) instruction on international documents and United States policy in human rights, which shall be mandatory for all members of the Service having reporting responsibilities relating to human rights and for chiefs of mission;
(B) instruction on the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, the nature, activities, and beliefs of different religions, and the various aspects and manifestations of violations of religious freedom;
(C) instruction on international documents and United States policy on trafficking in persons, including provisions of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (division A of Public Law 106–386; [22 U.S.C. 7101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) which may affect the United States bilateral relationships; and
(D) for Foreign Service Officers who will be assigned to a country experiencing or at risk of mass atrocities, as determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 6473a
applicable distinctions within a country in the
treatment of various religious practices and be-
lievers.
(c) Training for immigration judges
The Executive Office of Immigration Review
of the Department of Justice shall incorporate
into its initial and ongoing training of immigra-
tion judges training on the extent and nature of
religious persecution internationally, including
country-specific conditions, and including use of
the Annual Report. Such training shall include
governmental and nongovernmental methods of
persecution employed, and differences in the
treatment of religious groups by such perse-
cuting entities.
(Pub. L. 105–292, title VI, § 603, Oct. 27, 1998, 112
Stat. 2813; Pub. L. 107–132, § 1(b), Jan. 16, 2002, 115
Stat. 2412.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2002—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–132 substituted ‘‘George
P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center’’
for ‘‘National Foreign Affairs Training Center’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
ABOLITION OF IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
SERVICE AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization
Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related
references, see note set out under section 1551 of Title
8, Aliens and Nationality.
§ 6473a. Designated persons list for particularly
severe violations of religious freedom
(a) List
(1) In general
The Secretary of State, in coordination with
the Ambassador at Large and in consultation
with relevant government and nongovernment
experts, shall establish and maintain a list of
foreign individuals to whom a consular post
has denied a visa on the grounds of particu-
larly severe violations of religious freedom
under section 1182(a)(2)(G) of t
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