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 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