1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i U.S Refugee Admissions in FY2021 April 27, 2021 On April 16, 2021, President Joe Biden issued an emergency presidential determination (PD) on FY2021 refugee admissions. The emergency PD revised the allocations in the origi
2、nal FY2021 PD issued by President Donald Trump in October 2020. The new PD left the earlier ones refugee ceiling of 15,000 unchanged. The refugee provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA 207) authorize the President, after consulting with members of the House Judiciary Committee and th
3、e Senate Judiciary Committee, to issue a PD before the beginning of the fiscal year. In the PD, the President sets the refugee ceiling for the year and allocates that ceiling among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States. INA Section 207(b) further allows the President, after c
4、ongressional consultation, to issue an emergency determination in the middle of a fiscal year in the event of “an unforeseen refugee emergency situation.” In the emergency PD, President Biden announced that an unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due to new or increasing political viole
