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22 U.S.C. § 6474 — Reform of asylum policy
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**(a) Guidelines** The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop guidelines to ensure that persons with potential biases against individuals on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, including interpreters and personnel of airlines owned by governments known to be involved in practices which would meet the definition of persecution under international refugee law, shall not in any manner be used to interpret conversations between aliens and inspection or asylum officers.
**(b) Training for asylum and immigration officers** The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large, and other relevant officials such as the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall provide training to all officers adjudicating asylum cases, and to immigration officers performing duties under [section 1225(b) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1225/b&num=0&edition=prelim), on the nature of religious persecution abroad, including country-specific conditions, instruction on the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, instruction on methods of religious persecution practiced in foreign countries, and applicable distinctions within a country in the treatment of various religious practices and believers.
**(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 immigration 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 go
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**(a) Guidelines** The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop guidelines to ensure that persons with potential biases against individuals on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, including interpreters and personnel of airlines owned by governments known to be involved in practices which would meet the definition of persecution under international refugee law, shall not in any manner be used to interpret conversations between aliens and inspection or asylum officers.
**(b) Training for asylum and immigration officers** The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large, and other relevant officials such as the Director of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall provide training to all officers adjudicating asylum cases, and to immigration officers performing duties under [section 1225(b) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1225/b&num=0&edition=prelim), on the nature of religious persecution abroad, including country-specific conditions, instruction on the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, instruction on methods of religious persecution practiced in foreign countries, and applicable distinctions within a country in the treatment of various religious practices and believers.
**(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 immigration 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 persecuting entities.
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There is created and established in the Department of Justice an Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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**(a) Cooperation with nongovernmental organizations, the Department of State, and Congress** The Commission shall seek to effectively and freely cooperate with all entities engaged in the promotion of religious freedom abroad, governmental and nongovernmental, in the performance of the Commission’s duties under this subchapter.
**(b) Conflict of interest and antinepotism**
(1) **Member affiliations** — Except as provided in paragraph (3), in order to ensure the independence and integrity of the Commission, the Commission may not compensate any nongovernmental agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission, whether in that member’s direct employ or not. Staff employed by the Commission may not serve in the employ of any nongovernmental agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission while employed by the Commission.
(2) **Staff compensation** — Staff of the Commission may not receive compensation from any other source for work performed in carrying out the duties of the Commission while employed by the Commission.
(3) **Exception**
(A) *In general* — Subject to subparagraph (B), paragraph (1) shall not apply to payments made for items such as conference fees or the purchase of periodicals or other similar expenses, if such payments would not cause the aggregate value paid to any agency, project, or person for a fiscal year to exceed $250.
(B) *Limitation* — Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the Commission shall not give special preference to any agency, project, or person related to or affiliated with any member of the Commission.
(4) **Definitions** — In this subsection, the term “affiliated” means the relationship between a member of the Commission and—
(A) an individual who hol
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**(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 particularly severe violations of religious freedom under [section 1182(a)(2)(G) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182/a/2/G&num=0&edition=prelim), or who are subject to financial sanctions or other measures for particularly severe violations of freedom religion.
(2) **Reference** — The list required under paragraph (1) shall be known as the “Designated Persons List for Particularly Severe Violations of Religious Freedom”.
**(b) Report**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary of State shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that contains the list required under subsection (a), including, with respect to each foreign individual on the list—
(A) the name of the individual and a description of the particularly severe violation of religious freedom committed by the individual;
(B) the name of the country or other location in which such violation took place; and
(C) a description of the actions taken pursuant to this chapter or any other Act or Executive order in response to such violation.
(2) **Submission and updates** — The Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees—
(A) the initial report required under paragraph (1) not later than 180 days after December 16, 2016; and
(B) updates to the report every 180 days thereafter and as new information becomes available.
(3) **Form** — The report required under paragraph (1) should be submitted in unclassified form
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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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