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Security Bars and Processing; Confirmation of Effective Date; Partial Withdrawal
The Executive Office for Immigration Review published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 30, 2025.
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What the agency says
In December 2020, DHS and DOJ (collectively, "the Departments") issued a final rule that clarified when an alien who poses a public health risk is ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal and revised their credible fear screening regulations. After multiple delays, the rule is scheduled to take effect on December 31, 2025. However, since December 2020, the Departments have further amended their regulations, complicating the codification of the 2020 rule. In this final rule, the Departments are withdrawing certain amendments from the 2020 rule while leaving unaltered the rule's substantive public health-related provisions, which will become effective as scheduled.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-23970
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; partial withdrawal and correction
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department; Justice Department; Executive Office for Immigration Review
- Published
- December 30, 2025
- Dates
- Partial Withdrawal: As of December 29, 2025, amendatory instructions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 14 published on December 23, 2020, at 85 FR 84160, which were delayed by the rules published at 86 FR 6847 (Jan. 25, 2021), 86 FR 15069 (Mar. 22, 2021), 86 FR 73615 (Dec. 28, 2021), 87 FR 79789 (Dec. 28, 2022), and 89 FR 105386 (Dec. 27, 2024), are withdrawn.
- Docket
- CIS No. 2844-26; Docket No: USCIS 2020-0013; Dir. Order No. 03-2025
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1125-AB08; 1615-AC57
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 8 CFR 208; 8 CFR 235; 8 CFR 1003; 8 CFR 1208; 8 CFR 1235
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Aliens; Immigration; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 15
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