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DOJ/EOIR RIN: 1125-AA63 Publication ID: Spring 2009 
Title: ●New Asylum and Withholding Bars for Recruitment or Use of Child Soldiers 
Abstract: The Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008 (CSAA) was enacted on October 3, 2008. Public Law 110-340, 122 Stat. 3735. The CSAA establishes a criminal offense for the recruitment or use of child soldiers, new grounds of inadmissibility and deportability for aliens who have engaged in such recruitment or use, and subjects applicants for asylum or withholding of removal (under sections 241(b)(3) of the INA) to the eligibility bars for such relief/protection under sections 208(b)(2)(A)(iii) and 241(b)(3) (B)(iii) of the INA, respectively. Sections 241(b)(3)(B)(iii) and 208(b)(2)(A)(iii) of the Act state that aliens are ineligible for withholding of removal or asylum, respectively, where it is determined that "there are serious reasons for believing that the alien has committed a serious nonpolitical crime outside the United States prior to the arrival of the alien in the United States." Pursuant to the CSAA, for purposes of sections 208(b)(2)(A)(iii) of the Act (asylum) and 241(b)(3)(B)(iii) (withholding of removal) an alien who is subject to the child solider grounds of inadmissibility or deportability "shall be considered an alien with respect to whom there are serious reasons to believe that the alien committed a serious nonpolitical crime." 
Agency: Department of Justice(DOJ)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 8 CFR 1208   
Legal Authority: 8 USC 1103    8 USC 1158    8 USC 1226    8 USC 1252    8 USC 1282    8 CFR part 2    PL 110-340 (122 Stat. 3735)    ...   
Legal Deadline:
Action Source Description Date
Final  Statutory    12/02/2008 
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  08/00/2009    
NPRM Comment Period End  10/00/2009    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Jean King
General Counsel
Department of Justice
Executive Office for Immigration Review
5107 Leesburg Pike, Suite 2600,
Falls Church, VA 22041
Phone:703 305-0470
Fax:703 305-0443
Email: eoir.regs@usdoj.gov