Procedures for Asylum and Bars to Asylum Eligibility

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• Document number: 2019-27055
• Type: Proposed Rule
• Published: December 19, 2019
• Comments close: January 21, 2020
• Agency: Homeland Security Department; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Justice Department; Executive Office for Immigration Review

Official abstract

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security (collectively, "the Departments") propose to amend their respective regulations governing the bars to asylum eligibility. The Departments also propose to clarify the effect of criminal convictions and to remove their respective regulations governing the automatic reconsideration of discretionary denials of asylum applications.

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