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Security Bars and Processing; Delay of Effective Date
The Executive Office for Immigration Review published this final rule in the Federal Register on December 27, 2024. It took effect on January 27, 2025.
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What the agency says
On December 23, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") and the Department of Justice ("DOJ") (collectively, "the Departments") published a final rule entitled Security Bars and Processing ("Security Bars final rule") to define "danger to the security of the United States" to include certain emergency public health concerns. The Departments have delayed the final rule's effective date such that it has never gone into effect. This rulemaking further delays the Security Bars final rule's effective date until December 31, 2025.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-30774
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Interim final rule with request for comments
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department; Justice Department; Executive Office for Immigration Review
- Published
- December 27, 2024
- Takes effect
- January 27, 2025
- Dates
- Effective date: As of December 27, 2024, the effective date of the final rule published December 23, 2020, at 85 FR 84160, which was delayed by the rules published at 86 FR 6847 (Jan. 25, 2021), 86 FR 15069 (Mar. 22, 2021), 86 FR 73615 (Dec. 28, 2021), and 87 FR 79789 (Dec. 28, 2022), is further delayed until December 31, 2025.
- Docket
- CIS No. 2791-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2020-0013; A.G. Order No. 6106-2024
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1125-AB08; 1615-AC57
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 8 CFR 208; 8 CFR 1208
- Significant
- Yes, under Executive Order 12866
- Pages
- 6
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