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

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• Document number: 2024-30500
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: December 27, 2024
• Effective: December 27, 2024
• Agency: Justice Department; Executive Office for Immigration Review

Official abstract

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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