DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 8 CFR Part 208 [CIS No. 2736-22 - Docket No: USCIS 2022-0016]

Billing Code: 9111-97, 4410-30 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 8 CFR Part 208 [CIS No. 2736-22; Docket No: USCIS 2022-0016] RIN 1615-AC83 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Executive Office for Immigration Review 8 CFR Part 1208 [A.G. Order No. 5605-2023] RIN 1125-AB26 Circumvention of Lawful Pathways AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice. ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) are issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM” or “proposed rule”) in anticipation of a potential surge of migration at the southwest border (“SWB”) of the United States following the eventual termination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (“CDC”) public health Order. The proposed rule would encourage migrants to avail themselves of lawful, safe, and orderly pathways into the United States, or otherwise to seek asylum or other protection in countries through which they travel, thereby reducing reliance on human smuggling networks that exploit migrants for financial gain. It would do so by introducing a rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility for certain noncitizens who neither avail themselves of a lawful, safe, and orderly pathway to the United States nor seek asylum or other protection in a country through which they travel. In the absence of such a measure, which would be implemented on a temporary basis, the number of migrants expected to travel without This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 02/23/2023 and available online at federalregister.gov/d/2023-03718, and on govinfo.gov

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 8 CFR Part 208 [CIS No. 2736-22 - Docket No: USCIS 2022-0016]

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