§7845 Annual reports

Summary

Not later than 1 year after October 18, 2004, and then every 12 months through 2022, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security must send a joint report to the appropriate congressional committees and the House and Senate Judiciary Committees about how this part of the law worked in the past year. The report must say how many North Korean nationals applied for political asylum and how many were granted it, how many applied for refugee status and how many got it, and must describe what the Secretary of State did to get other East and Southeast Asian countries to allow U.S. processing of North Koreans. Most of that information must be unclassified, with a classified appendix if needed. Each year the President must also include in the annual refugee-admission report information about steps taken to help people who fled countries identified for serious violations of religious freedom. For each such country, the report must describe how its nationals or former habitual residents can seek refugee decisions through outside agency referrals, groups the U.S. treats as having special humanitarian concern, or family ties to the United States.