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DHS/USCIS RIN: 1615-AB79 Publication ID: Spring 2009 
Title: ●Application of the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar to Asylum and Withholding of Removal for Recruitment or Use of Child Soldiers 
Abstract: The Child Soldier Accountability Act of 2008 (CSAA) establishes a criminal offense for the recruitment or use of child soldiers, and also establishes grounds of inadmissibility and removability for aliens who have engaged in such recruitment or use. Additionally, the CSAA requires the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), within 60 days of the CSAA’s enactment, to promulgate a final rule establishing that aliens subject to these 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. The Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ) therefore are amending their companion immigration regulations to specify that aliens who are inadmissible or deportable for recruitment or use of child soldiers are considered ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal due to the serious nonpolitical crime bar. 
Agency: Department of Homeland Security(DHS)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 8 CFR 208    8 CFR 1208   
Legal Authority: PUB. L. 110-340   
Legal Deadline:
Action Source Description Date
Final  Statutory  CSAA Pub. L. 110-340  12/02/2008 

Overall Description of Deadline: CSAA requires the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary), within 60 days of the CSAA’s enactment, to promulgate a final rule establishing that aliens subject to these 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.

Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Interim Final Rule  05/00/2009    
Interim Final Rule Comment Period End  07/00/2009    
Additional Information: CIS 2467-08
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Related Agencies: Joint: DOJ; 
Agency Contact:
Jedidah Hussey
Deputy Chief, Asylum Division
Department of Homeland Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Suite 3300, 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20529
Phone:202 272-1663
Email: jedidah.m.hussey@dhs.gov