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§1523 Congressional reports

Title 8 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - REFUGEE ASSISTANCE › § 1523

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Summary

The Secretary must send a yearly report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees by January 31 after each fiscal year ends, starting with fiscal year 1980. The report must cover eight kinds of information: updated employment and labor-force data for refugees who arrived in the five fiscal years before the report and for earlier refugees who rely heavily on welfare, and how much they used help under this law; where refugees live; results of monitoring and evaluation done under section 1522(a)(7); the Office’s and partners’ activities, spending, and policies and the Director’s improvement plans; evaluations of help for self-sufficiency, English, and suitable jobs and any fraud or mismanagement; help given under section 1522(e)(5); the location and status of unaccompanied refugee children; and the summary from section 1522(a)(8).

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1523

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(a)The Secretary shall submit a report on activities under this subchapter to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate not later than the January 31 following the end of each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 1980.
(b)Each such report shall contain—
(1)an updated profile of the employment and labor force statistics for refugees who have entered the United States within the five-fiscal-year period immediately preceding the fiscal year within which the report is to be made and for refugees who entered earlier and who have shown themselves to be significantly and disproportionately dependent on welfare, as well as a description of the extent to which refugees received the forms of assistance or services under this subchapter during that period;
(2)a description of the geographic location of refugees;
(3)a summary of the results of the monitoring and evaluation conducted under section 1522(a)(7) of this title during the period for which the report is submitted;
(4)a description of (A) the activities, expenditures, and policies of the Office under this subchapter and of the activities of States, voluntary agencies, and sponsors, and (B) the Director’s plans for improvement of refugee resettlement;
(5)evaluations of the extent to which (A) the services provided under this subchapter are assisting refugees in achieving economic self-sufficiency, achieving ability in English, and achieving employment commensurate with their skills and abilities, and (B) any fraud, abuse, or mismanagement has been reported in the provisions of services or assistance;
(6)a description of any assistance provided by the Director pursuant to section 1522(e)(5) of this title;
(7)a summary of the location and status of unaccompanied refugee children admitted to the United States; and
(8)a summary of the information compiled and evaluation made under section 1522(a)(8) of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–236 struck out “, in consultation with the Coordinator,” after “The Secretary”. 1988—Pub. L. 100–525 redesignated former subsec. (a)(1) as (a) and former subsec. (a)(2) as (b), and within (b), further redesignated former subpars. (A) to (H) as pars. (1) to (8), respectively, and former cls. (i) and (ii) of pars. (4) and (5) as cls. (A) and (B), respectively; and struck out former subsec. (b) which provided for a report to Congress by the Secretary not later than one year after Mar. 17, 1980, and former subsecs. (c) and (d) which provided for certain reports to Congress by the Director not later than certain dates in 1983. 1986—Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 99–605 substituted “the United States within the five-fiscal-year period immediately preceding the fiscal year within which the report is to be made and for refugees who entered earlier and who have shown themselves to be significantly and disproportionately dependent on welfare” for “under this chapter since May 1975”. 1982—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97–363, § 3(b), added subsec. (c). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 97–363, § 7, added subsec. (d).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–236 applicable with respect to officials, offices, and bureaus of Department of State when executive orders,

Regulations

, or departmental directives implementing the

Amendments

by section 161 and 162 of Pub. L. 103–236 become effective, or 90 days after Apr. 30, 1994, whichever comes earlier, see section 161(b) of Pub. L. 103–236, as amended, set out as a note under section 2651a of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

Effective Date

of 1982 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 97–363 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 8 of Pub. L. 97–363, set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.

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Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1523

Title 8Aliens and Nationality

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