§6473 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Attorney General and the Secretary of State must make rules so people who might be biased because of religion, race, nationality, social group, or political opinion — including interpreters and airline staff from governments known to persecute people — are not used to interpret talks between migrants and immigration inspection or asylum officers. The Attorney General, working with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large, and other officials, must train all asylum decision-makers and immigration officers acting under section 1225(b) of title 8 about religious persecution abroad, country conditions, the right to freedom of religion, methods of persecution, and differences in how religious groups are treated. The Executive Office of Immigration Review must give the same country-specific training to immigration judges, using the Annual Report.

Title 22, §6473

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(a)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)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, 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)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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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.

§6473 Reform of asylum policy

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Title 22, §6473

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of Functions

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