Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 143 (Thursday, July 29, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 40915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16382]

Presidential Determination No. 2021-09 of July 23, 2021

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and
Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1))
(MRAA), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1)
of the MRAA, that it is important to furnish assistance
under the MRAA in an amount of up to $100 million from
the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration
Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected
urgent refugee and migration needs, victims of
conflict, and other persons at risk as a result of the
situation in Afghanistan, including applicants for
Special Immigrant Visas. Such assistance may be
provided on a bilateral or multilateral basis as
appropriate, including through contributions to
international organizations and through funding to
other nongovernmental organizations, governments, and
United States departments and agencies.

This determination supersedes Presidential
Determination 2021-08 of June 11, 2021.

You are authorized and directed to submit this
determination to the Congress, along with the
accompanying Justification, and to publish this
determination in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, July 23, 2021