CIS NO: 90-H521-5 TITLE: Orderly Departure Program and U.S. Policy Regarding Vietnamese Boat People. SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House DOC TYPE: Hearing COLLATION: iii+100 p. DATE: June 28, 1989 CONGRESS-SESSION: 101-1 SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:101/29 ITEM NO: 1020-A; 1020-B LC CARD NO: 90-600203 MC ENTRY NO: 90-9042 Committee Serial No. 29. Hearing before the Subcom on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law to assess U.S. activities under the orderly departure program (ODP) for emigration from Vietnam, developed by the UN-sponsored International Conference on Indochinese Refugees as an alternative to Vietnamese clandestine departure by boat. CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam refugees orderly departure program, US activities oversight DESCRIPTORS: SUBCOM ON IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. HOUSE; INDOCHINESE REFUGEES; CONFERENCES; UNITED NATIONS; FEDERAL.AID.PROGRAMS; INTERNATIONAL.RELIEF 90-H521-5 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 28, 1989 p. 3-6 WITNESSES (and witness notations): ATKINS, CHESTER G. (Rep, D-Mass) STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Views on U.S. policy regarding Vietnamese refugees. CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam refugees orderly departure program, US activities oversight 90-H521-5 TESTIMONY NO: 2 June 28, 1989 p. 7-100 WITNESSES (and witness notations): FUNSETH, ROBERT L. (Acting Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, Department of State) COMBS, DELIA B. (Asssistant Commissioner, Refugees, Asylum, and Parole, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)) TAYLOR, JAMES E. (Rear Adm.) (Director, Politico-Military Policy and Current Plans Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy) HOLMAN, PHILIP A. (Acting Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement) STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Briefing on development of the ODP process at the UN conference; details of the ODP procedure; explanation of INS adjudication of Vietnamese refugee applications under ODP procedures; summary of refugee statistics; description of HHS assistance available to refugee groups; summary of funding concerns associated with refugee admissions and resettlement. Briefing on the refugee admissions process, including determination of refugee status; review of Department of Justice authority to grant parole status to aliens otherwise ineligible for admission into the U.S. CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnam refugees orderly departure program, US activities oversight DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE; DEPARTMENT.OF.HEALTH.AND.HUMAN.SERVICES; STATISTICS; GOVERNMENT.SPENDING; ALIENS (Refugee resettlement assistance programs review); REFUGEES (Admission and resettlement assistance programs and policies); IMMIGRATION (Aliens ineligible for admission to US, Justice Dept granting of parole status); DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE; IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; NAVY; OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT; DEPARTMENT.OF.JUSTICE