0970-AD16 202504 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0970 Administration for Children and Families ACF 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Unaccompanied Children Program Foundational Rule; Update to Accord with Statutory Requirements

This rule converts the underlying IFR published on March 25, 2025, into a Final Rule to remove the following provision of the Code of Federal Regulations introduced by the April 30, 2024, Unaccompanied Children (UC) Program Foundational Rule (Foundational Rule) at 45 CFR 410.1201(b): ORR shall not disqualify potential sponsors based solely on their immigration status and shall not collect information on immigration status of potential sponsors for law enforcement or immigration enforcement related purposes. "ORR shall not share any immigration status information relating to potential sponsors with any law enforcement or immigration enforcement related entity at any time.” 45 CFR 410.1201(b). 

ORR determined that this provision contravenes existing statutory limitations on ORR’s authority described at 8 U.S.C. 1373. 

Thus, ORR removed the above referenced information-sharing provision of the Foundational Rule by issuing an IFR, which ORR now seeks to issue as a Final Rule.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage No No Deregulatory 45 CFR 410 8 U.S.C. 1373(a) No Interim Final Rule with Comments 03/25/2025 90 FR 13554 Interim Final Rule Effective 03/25/2025 Interim Final Rule Comment Period End 05/27/2025 Final Action 09/00/2025 No Federal No No No 0970-AC93 Related to Toby Biswas Robert McFarren Director of Policy 0970 Administration for Children and Families ACF 202 555-4440 ucpolicy-regulatoryaffairs@acf.hhs.gov Office of Refugee Resettlement, Unaccompanied Children Bureau, 330 C Street SW, Washington DC 20201