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The United States Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212) is an amendment to the earlier Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, and was created to provide a permanent and systematic procedure for the admission to the United States of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the U.S., and to provide comprehensive and uniform provisions ...
Next, the 1980 Refugee Act pushed the goal of conforming US law with the UN Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees. Indeed, the Refugee Act's definition of a "refugee" was virtually identical to the protocol's, which required contracting nations to establish a category of immigrants for whom discretionary grants of asylum were available ...
Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, which standardized the resettlement services of all refugees in the U.S. According to the Act, the objectives of refugee resettlement are "to provide a permanent and systemic procedure for the admission to this country of refugees of special humanitarian concern to the United States, and to provide ...
Refugee Act: Created a policy for admitting refugees with the United Nations’ definition of refugees [6] Set an annual cap of 50,000 refugees. Pub. L. 96–212: 1980 (No short title) Pub. L. 96–422: 1981 Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1981 Pub. L. 97–116: 1982 Virgin Islands Nonimmigrant Alien Adjustment Act of 1981
When refugees from around the world arrive in the U.S., they face a dramatically different way of life. ... Since the Refugee Act was passed in 1980 the U.S. has admitted a little over 3 million ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Refugee Act; Regulatory Flexibility Act; ... Special Central American Assistance Act of 1979;
The Des Moines Register reports on Oct. 30, 1979, that Iowa Gov. Robert Ray has returned from a trip to southeast Asia, where he visited refugee camps. The Des Moines Register is celebrating 175 ...
The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 was the United States' second refugee admissions and resettlement law, following the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which expired at the end of 1952. [1] Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians , 17,000 Greeks , 17,000 Dutch , and 45,000 immigrants from ...