1615-AB79 202310 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1615 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS 1600 Department of Homeland Security DHS Application of the Serious Nonpolitical Crime Bar to Asylum and Withholding of Removal for Recruitment or Use of Child Soldiers

The Child Soldiers 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 noncitizens who have engaged in such recruitment or use. In addition, the Immigration and Nationality Act and immigration regulations provide that individuals who committed a serious nonpolitical crime are subject to a mandatory bar to asylum and withholding of removal. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) propose to amend their companion immigration regulations, to specify that noncitizens 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.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Long-Term Actions No No 8 CFR 208 8 CFR 1208 Pub. L. 110-340 Statutory Final 12/02/2008 CSAA Pub. L. 110-340. The Child Soldiers Accountability Act of 2008 (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 a noncitizen subject to these grounds of inadmissibility or deportability shall be considered a noncitizen with respect to whom there are serious reasons to believe that the noncitizen committed a serious nonpolitical crime. No NPRM To Be Determined cis 2467-08 No No None No No No No 1125-AA63 Related to 1125 Executive Office for Immigration Review EOIR Joint Rena Cutlip-Mason Chief, Division of Humanitarian Affairs, OP&S 1615 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS 240 721-3000 5900 Capital Gateway Drive, Camp Springs MD 20746