Fiscal Year 2011 Refugee Admissions Numbers
In accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1157, and after appropriate consultations with the Congress, the President made the following determinations and authorized the following actions:
“The admission of up to 80,000 refugees to the United States during Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest; provided that this number shall be understood as including persons admitted to the United States during FY 2011 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under the Amerasian immigrant admissions program, as provided below. The 80,000 admissions numbers shall be allocated among refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States in accordance with the following regional allocations; provided that the number of admissions allocated to the East Asia region shall include persons admitted to the United States during FY 2011 with Federal refugee resettlement assistance under section 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1988, as contained in section 101(e) of Public Law 100–202 (Amerasian immigrants and their family members):
Africa ………………………………………… 15,000
East Asia ……………………………………. 19,000
Europe and Central Asia …………….. 2,000
Latin America/Caribbean …………….. 5,500
Near East/South Asia ………………….. 35,500
Unallocated Reserve …………………… 3,000
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