2025-16809: Ratification of Department Action
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The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notice of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
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Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 167 (Tuesday, September 2, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 167 (Tuesday, September 2, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Pages 42309-42310] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-16809] ======================================================================== Rules and Regulations Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains regulatory documents having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510. The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents. ======================================================================== Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 167 / Tuesday, September 2, 2025 / Rules and Regulations [[Page 42309]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 8 CFR Chapter I [USCIS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0021] RIN 1615-AC49 Ratification of Department Action
Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Action
Ratification. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary
The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notice of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.
Dates
The ratification was signed on August 20, 2025 and relates back to the original date of the action that it ratifies.
For Further Information Contact
Office of the General Counsel, DHS, Washington, DC 20528 (202) 282-9822.
Supplementary Information
On August 20, 2025, the Secretary of Homeland Security ratified the interim final rule titled ``Implementing Bilateral and Multilateral Asylum Cooperative Agreements Under the Immigration and Nationality Act.'' See 84 FR 63994 (Nov. 19, 2019). DHS is now publishing the ratification in the Federal Register out of an abundance of caution. Neither the ratification nor the publication is a statement that the ratified action would be invalid absent the ratification, whether published or otherwise. Joseph N. Mazzara, Acting General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [[Page 42310]] Appendix [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] TR02SE25.003 [FR Doc. 2025-16809 Filed 8-29-25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 9110-9M-P
Rulemaking docket
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Rule November 19, 2019Implementing Bilateral and Multilateral Asylum Cooperative Agreements Under the Immigration and Nationality Act
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Rule September 02, 2025Ratification of Department Action
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Rule November 19, 2025Ratification of Department Action
Public comments
What people are saying
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Anonymous commenter 2020-02-18
“this rule is wrong because it violates the promise that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14) There is no wrong way to request asylum, but the U.S. government is slowly chipping away at the right to do so.”
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Anonymous commenter 2020-02-18
“I am a Registered Nurse, and active member of my church (ELCA) and wish to speak AGAINST this legislation. This piece of legislation fails to recognize that National Security is not achieved through border walls and rejection of asylum seekers. To restore a long held US role model as a Beacon of Light in this world, we need to firmly abide by human rights standards. In so doing, we align with "justice for all" and confront malign governments and groups who terrorize their citizens. Demanding that a terrorized asylum seeker should first seek asylum in a neighboring unsafe country is both tra...”
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Anonymous commenter 2020-02-18
“This rule is wrong because it violates the promise that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14) There is no wrong way to request asylum, but the U.S. government is slowly chipping away at the right to do so. Just last month, our clergy delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border saw firsthand the experience of asylum seekers stuck in Mexico for months because of new U.S. policies. Do not make applying for asylum even more difficult. Many of our own families fled to the United States seeking safety a...”
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Anonymous commenter 2020-02-18
“The Trump administration is proposing new rules that will dramatically reduce the number of people seeking asylum here by requiring asylum seekers who have traveled through another country to reach the U.S. (e.g., Mexico or Guatemala) to seek asylum there instead, despite the fact that those countries are often themselves safe only in name. This rule is wrong because it violates the promise that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14) There is no wrong way to request asylum, but the U.S. gove...”
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Anonymous commenter 2020-02-18
“This rule is wrong because it violates the promise that Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14) There is no wrong way to request asylum, but the U.S. government is slowly chipping away at the right to do so.”
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Documents
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