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handle is hein.crs/govdcmg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SConr essional Research Servik FY2021 Refugee Ceiling and Allocations November 3, 2020 On October 28, 2020, President Donald Trump issued the Presidential Determination setting the FY2021 refugee ceiling at 15,000. The refugee ceiling is the maximum number of refugees that can be admitted to the United States in a given fiscal year. The Presidential Determination is typically issued before the start, or in the first week, of a new fiscal year. Refugees cannot be admitted to the United States until the Presidential Determination for that fiscal year has been issued. From October 1, 2020, until the issuance of the FY2021 Presidential Determination, no refugees could be admitted to the United States. The FY2021 refugee ceiling is the lowest in the 40-year history of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). The Trump Administration has reduced the refugee ceiling each year, setting it at 45,000 for FY2018, 30,000 for FY2019, and 18,000 for FY2020. These ceilings are much lower than in previous years. Actual refugee admissions in FY2020, which were negatively impacted by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, totaled 11,814. The refugee provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allow for the admission of a refugee who is of special humanitarian concern to the United States and satisfies other criteria. The INA defines a refugee, in main part, as any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality ... and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The Department of State's (DOS's) Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) coordinates and manages USRAP. The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) adjudicates refugee cases. The INA authorizes the President to set the annual refugee ceiling after appropriate consultation between Administration officials and members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. As part of the annual consultation process, the INA requires the President to report to the committees on the foreseeable number of refugees who will be in need of resettlement and the anticipated allocation of refugee admissions. The Administration is further required to provide a description of the number and allocation of refugees to be admitted, among other specified information. DOS, DHS, and the Department of Health and Human Services jointly issue an annual report to fulfill these requirements. The Administration's report on Proposed Refugee Admissions for FY2021 explains the decision to set the refugee ceiling at 15,000 by referencing the separate asylum system and the COVID-19 pandemic: This Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress. gov IN11529 CRS NS GHT Prepared for Members and Cornmttees oi Conqres3------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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