8 U.S.C. § 1524
8 U.S.C. § 1524
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS1999-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106-104 substituted "2000 through 2002" for "1998 and 1999".1997-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-78 and Pub. L. 105-136 amended subsec. (a) identically, substituting "each of fiscal years 1998 and 1999" for "fiscal year 1995, fiscal year 1996, and fiscal year 1997".1994-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-416 substituted "fiscal year 1995, fiscal year 1996, and fiscal year 1997" for "fiscal year 1993 and fiscal year 1994". 1993-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-37 substituted "fiscal year 1993 and fiscal year 1994" for "fiscal year 1992". 1991-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-110 amended subsec. (a) generally, substituting present provisions for provisions which authorized appropriations for fiscal years 1987 and 1988 to carry out this subchapter generally and specifically to carry out section 1522(c)(1), (b)(5), and (f) of this title.1988-Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 100-525 substituted "through (4)" for "through (5)". 1986-Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 99-605, §2(a), (b) (1), substituted "for each of fiscal years 1987 and 1988" for "for fiscal year 1983", and "(2) through (5)" for "(2) and (3)".Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 99-605, §2(b)(2), amended par. (2) generally, substituting "1987 $74,783,000 and for fiscal year 1988 $77,924,000" for "1983 $100,000,000", and "1522(c)(1)" for "1522(c)".Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 99-605, §2(b)(2), amended par. (3) generally, substituting "1987 $8,761,000 and for fiscal year 1988 $9,125,000" for "1983 $14,000,000".Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 99-605, §2(b)(3), added par. (4).1982-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97-363, §2, substituted provisions with regard to fiscal 1983 authorizing appropriation of sums necessary to carry out provisions of this chapter, authorizing appropriations of $100,000,000 for services to refugees under section 1522(c) of this title, and authorizing appropriations of $14,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out section 1522(b)(5) of this title, for provisions with regard to fiscal 1980 and each of the two succeeding fiscal years authorizing appropriation of sums necessary for initial resettlement assistance, cash and medical assistance, and child welfare services under subsecs. (b)(1), (3), (4), (d)(2), and (e) of section 1522 of this title, and authorizing appropriations of $200,000,000 for other programs.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1997 AMENDMENTS Pub. L. 105-78, title VI, §604(b), Nov. 13, 1997, 111 Stat. 1521, and Pub. L. 105-136, §1(b), Dec. 2, 1997, 111 Stat. 2639, provided that: "The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect October 1, 1997."
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1988 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 100-525 effective as if included in enactment of Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-605, see section 6(c) of Pub. L. 100-525 set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.
- refugee
- The term "refugee" means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, or (B) in such special circumstances as the President after appropriate consultation (as defined in section 1157(e) of this title) may specify, any person who is within the country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, within the country in which such person is habitually residing, and who is persecuted or who has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The term "refugee" does not include any person who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For purposes of determinations under this chapter, a person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be forced to undergo such a procedure or subject to persecution for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.