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         Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, D.C. 20548



                 October 20, 2000

                 The Honorable Ted Stevens, Chairman
                 The Honorable Robert C. Byrd, Ranking Minority Member
                 Committee on Appropriations
                 United States Senate

                 The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman
                 The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Minority Member
                 Committee on the Judiciary
                 United States Senate

                 The Honorable C.W. Bill Young, Chairman
                 The Honorable David Obey, Ranking Minority Member
                 Committee on Appropriations
                 House of Representatives

                 The Honorable Henry J. Hyde, Chairman
                 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Minority Member
                 Committee on the Judiciary
                 House of Representatives

                 Subject: Immigration Benefits: Fourth Report Required by the Haitian Refugee Immigration
                 Fairness Act of 1998

                 This letter responds to certain requirements of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act
                 of 1998' (HRIFA) that authorized certain Haitian nationals and their dependents to apply to
                 adjust their status to legal permanent residence. Section 902(k) of the act requires the
                 Comptroller General to report every 6 months on the number of Haitian nationals who have
                 applied and been approved to adjust their status to legal permanent residence. The reports
                 are to contain a breakdown on the numbers who applied and the number who were approved
                 as asylum applicants, parolees, children without parents, orphaned children, or abandoned
                 children or as the eligible dependents of these applicants, including spouses, children, and
                 unmarried sons or daughters. Reports are to be provided until all applications have been
                 finally adjudicated. This is our fourth report.2




                 P.L 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681-538.
                 2 The previous reports were (1) Immigration Benefits: Applications for Adiustment of Status Under the Haitian Refugee
                 Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 (GAO/GGD-99-92R, Apr. 21, 1999); (2) Immigration Benefits: Second Report Required by the


GAO-01-118R Immigration Benefits


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