---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 7845"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "7845"
heading: "Annual reports"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/7845"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — North Korean Human Rights"
  - "Subchapter III — Protecting North Korean Refugees"
---

# §7845. Annual reports

- (a) **Immigration and refugee information—** Not later than 1 year after October 18, 2004, and every 12 months thereafter through 2022, the Secretary of State and the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/7803.md?p=1) and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the operation of this subchapter during the previous year, which shall include the following:
  - (1) The number of aliens who are nationals or citizens of [North Korea](/usc/22/7803.md?p=4) who applied for political asylum and the number who were granted political asylum.
  - (2) The number of aliens who are nationals or citizens of [North Korea](/usc/22/7803.md?p=4) who applied for refugee status and the number who were granted refugee status.
  - (3) A detailed description of the measures undertaken by the Secretary of State to carry out [section 7843 of this title](/usc/22/7843.md), including country-specific information with respect to [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) efforts to secure the cooperation and permission of the governments of countries in East and Southeast Asia to facilitate [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) processing of [North Koreans](/usc/22/7803.md?p=5) seeking protection as refugees. The information required under this paragraph shall be provided in unclassified form, with a classified annex, if necessary.
- (b) **Countries of particular concern—** The President shall include in each [annual report](/usc/22/6402.md?p=2) on proposed refugee admission pursuant to [section 1157(d) of title 8](/usc/8/1157.md?p=d), information about specific measures taken to facilitate access to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) refugee [program](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) for individuals who have fled countries of particular concern for [violations of religious freedom](/usc/22/6402.md?p=16), identified pursuant to [section 6442(b) of this title](/usc/22/6442.md?p=b). The report shall include, for each country of particular concern, a description of access of the nationals or former habitual residents of that country to a refugee determination on the basis of—
  - (1) referrals by external agencies to a refugee adjudication;
  - (2) groups deemed to be of special humanitarian concern to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for purposes of refugee resettlement; and
  - (3) [family](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2) links to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 108–333, title III, § 305, Oct. 18, 2004, 118 Stat. 1297; Pub. L. 110–346, § 11, Oct. 7, 2008, 122 Stat. 3942; Pub. L. 112–172, § 10, Aug. 16, 2012, 126 Stat. 1309; Pub. L. 115–198, § 7(f), July 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 1524.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–198 substituted “2022” for “2017” in introductory provisions.

2012—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–172 substituted “2017” for “2012” in introductory provisions.

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–346, § 11(1), (2), inserted “and refugee” before “information” in heading, and, in introductory provisions, substituted “through 2012” for “for each of the following 5 years” and “which shall include the following:” for “which shall include—”.

Pub. L. 110–346, § 11(3)–(5), substituted “The number of aliens” for “the number of aliens” in pars. (1) and (2) and a period for “; and” in par. (1) and added par. (3).