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[CITE: 22USC6473]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
               CHAPTER 73--INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
 
          SUBCHAPTER IV--REFUGEE, ASYLUM, AND CONSULAR MATTERS
 
Sec. 6473. Reform of asylum policy


(a) Guidelines

    The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall develop 
guidelines to ensure that persons with potential biases against 
individuals on the grounds of religion, race, nationality, membership in 
a particular social group, or political opinion, including interpreters 
and personnel of airlines owned by governments known to be involved in 
practices which would meet the definition of persecution under 
international refugee law, shall not in any manner be used to interpret 
conversations between aliens and inspection or asylum officers.

(b) Training for asylum and immigration officers

    The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
the Ambassador at Large, and other relevant officials such as the 
Director of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall provide 
training to all officers adjudicating asylum cases, and to immigration 
officers performing duties under section 1225(b) of title 8, on the 
nature of religious persecution abroad, including country-specific 
conditions, instruction on the internationally recognized right to 
freedom of religion, instruction on methods of religious persecution 
practiced in foreign countries, and applicable distinctions within a 
country in the treatment of various religious practices and believers.

(c) Training for immigration judges

    The Executive Office of Immigration Review of the Department of 
Justice shall incorporate into its initial and ongoing training of 
immigration judges training on the extent and nature of religious 
persecution internationally, including country-specific conditions, and 
including use of the Annual Report. Such training shall include 
governmental and nongovernmental methods of persecution employed, and 
differences in the treatment of religious groups by such persecuting 
entities.

(Pub. L. 105-292, title VI, Sec. 603, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2813.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 6412 of this title.
