§ 6473. Reform of asylum policy

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1998

   International Religious Freedom Act of 1998

   Pub. L. 105–292 title VI § 603 · 112 Stat. 2787

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6473

   Pub. L. 105–292, title VI, § 603, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2813

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 105–292, title VI, § 603, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2813

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 603. REFORM OF ASYLUM POLICY. (a) Guidelines.— The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop guidelines to ensure that persons with potential biases against individuals on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, including interpreters and personnel of airlines owned by governments known to be involved in practices which would meet the definition of persecution under international refugee law, shall not in any manner be used to interpret conversations between aliens and inspection or asylum officers. (b) Training for Asylum and Immigration Officers.— The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Ambassador at Large, and other relevant officials such as the Director of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall provide training to all officers adjudicating asylum cases, and to immigration officers performing duties under section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1225(b)), on the nature of religious persecution abroad, including country-specific conditions, instruction on the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion, instruction on methods of religious persecution practiced in foreign countries, and applicable distinctions within a country in the treatment of various religious practices and believers. (c) Training for Immigration Judges.— The Executive Office of Immigration Review of the Department of Justice shall incorporate into its initial and ongoing training of immigration judges training on the extent and nature of religious persecution internationally, including country-specific conditions, and including use of the Annual Report. Such training shall include governmental and nongovernmental methods of persecution employed, and differences in the treatment of religious groups by such persecuting entities.

2. 2002

   Pub. L. 107–132 § 1(b) · 115 Stat. 2412

   Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 6473(b)

   Pub. L. 107–132 substituted “George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center” for “National Foreign Affairs Training Center”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–132 substituted “George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center” for “National Foreign Affairs Training Center”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) 7 USC 1766b, 10 USC 2002, 22 USC 2056, 4001 note, 4003, 4021 note, 4171, 4171 note, 4903, 6101, 6473. Any reference in any provision of law to the National Foreign Affairs Training Center or the Foreign Service Institute shall be considered to be a reference to the “George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center”.

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