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Clarification Regarding Bars to Eligibility During Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review
The Executive Office for Immigration Review published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 27, 2024. It took effect on December 27, 2024.
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What the agency says
This interim final rule ("IFR") makes a technical amendment to Department of Justice ("Department") regulations to clarify that immigration judges' de novo review of asylum officers' credible fear and reasonable fear determinations shall, where relevant, include review of the asylum officer's application of any bars to asylum or withholding of removal under Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") regulations, as well as other clarifying technical changes related to credible fear and reasonable fear processes.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-30500
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Interim final rule; request for comment
- Agency
- Justice Department; Executive Office for Immigration Review
- Published
- December 27, 2024
- Takes effect
- December 27, 2024
- Dates
- Effective date: This interim final rule is effective December 27, 2024.
- Docket
- EOIR Docket No. 025-0910; A.G. Order No. 6107-2024
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1125-AB33
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 8 CFR 1003; 8 CFR 1208
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Immigration
- Pages
- 12
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