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Clarification Regarding Bars to Eligibility During Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review

Agency: Justice Department

Document #: 2024-30500

Published: December 27, 2024

Effective: December 27, 2024

Docket: EOIR Docket No. 025-0910

Who this affects

  • Asylum seekers and refugees

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Summary

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.

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