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[CITE: 8USC1523]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER IV--REFUGEE ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 1523. Congressional reports

    (a) The Secretary shall submit a report on activities under this 
subchapter to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives and of the Senate not later than the January 31 
following the end of each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 1980.
    (b) Each such report shall contain--
        (1) an updated profile of the employment and labor force 
    statistics for refugees who have entered the United States within 
    the five-fiscal-year period immediately preceding the fiscal year 
    within which the report is to be made and for refugees who entered 
    earlier and who have shown themselves to be significantly and 
    disproportionately dependent on welfare, as well as a description of 
    the extent to which refugees received the forms of assistance or 
    services under this subchapter during that period;
        (2) a description of the geographic location of refugees;
        (3) a summary of the results of the monitoring and evaluation 
    conducted under section 1522(a)(7) of this title during the period 
    for which the report is submitted;
        (4) a description of (A) the activities, expenditures, and 
    policies of the Office under this subchapter and of the activities 
    of States, voluntary agencies, and sponsors, and (B) the Director's 
    plans for improvement of refugee resettlement;
        (5) evaluations of the extent to which (A) the services provided 
    under this subchapter are assisting refugees in achieving economic 
    self-sufficiency, achieving ability in English, and achieving 
    employment commensurate with their skills and abilities, and (B) any 
    fraud, abuse, or mismanagement has been reported in the provisions 
    of services or assistance;
        (6) a description of any assistance provided by the Director 
    pursuant to section 1522(e)(5) of this title;
        (7) a summary of the location and status of unaccompanied 
    refugee children admitted to the United States; and
        (8) a summary of the information compiled and evaluation made 
    under section 1522(a)(8) of this title.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title IV, ch. 2, Sec. 413, as added Pub. L. 96-
212, title III, Sec. 311(a)(2), Mar. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 115; amended 
Pub. L. 97-363, Secs. 3(b), 7, Oct. 25, 1982, 96 Stat. 1734, 1737; Pub. 
L. 99-605, Sec. 11, Nov. 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 3455; Pub. L. 100-525, 
Sec. 9(jj), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2622; Pub. L. 103-236, title I, 
Sec. 162(n)(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 409.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103-236 struck out ``, in consultation 
with the Coordinator,'' after ``The Secretary''.
    1988--Pub. L. 100-525 redesignated former subsec. (a)(1) as (a) and 
former subsec. (a)(2) as (b), and within (b), further redesignated 
former subpars. (A) to (H) as pars. (1) to (8), respectively, and former 
cls. (i) and (ii) of pars. (4) and (5) as cls. (A) and (B), 
respectively; and struck out former subsec. (b) which provided for a 
report to Congress by the Secretary not later than one year after Mar. 
17, 1980, and former subsecs. (c) and (d) which provided for certain 
reports to Congress by the Director not later than certain dates in 
1983.
    1986--Subsec. (a)(2)(A). Pub. L. 99-605 substituted ``the United 
States within the five-fiscal-year period immediately preceding the 
fiscal year within which the report is to be made and for refugees who 
entered earlier and who have shown themselves to be significantly and 
disproportionately dependent on welfare'' for ``under this chapter since 
May 1975''.
    1982--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97-363, Sec. 3(b), added subsec. (c).
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 97-363, Sec. 7, added subsec. (d).


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-236 applicable with respect to officials, 
offices, and bureaus of Department of State when executive orders, 
regulations, or departmental directives implementing the amendments by 
sections 161 and 162 of Pub. L. 103-236 become effective, or 90 days 
after Apr. 30, 1994, whichever comes earlier, see section 161(b) of Pub. 
L. 103-236, as amended, set out as a note under section 2651a of Title 
22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.


                    Effective Date of 1982 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-363 effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 8 of 
Pub. L. 97-363, set out as a note under section 1522 of this title.
