Document

Ratification of Department Action

The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notice of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.

PDF version Source Record

Department of Homeland Security

8 CFR Chapter I
[USCIS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0021]
RIN 1615-AC42

AGENCY:

Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

ACTION:

Ratification.

SUMMARY:

The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notice of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.

DATES:

The ratification was signed on October 29, 2025 and relates back to the original date of the action that it ratifies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Office of the General Counsel, DHS, Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282-9822.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On October 29, 2025, the Secretary of Homeland Security ratified the approval and issuance of the final rule titled “Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review,” as well as the associated notice of proposed rulemaking. See85 FR 80274 (Dec. 11, 2020); 85 FR 36264 (June 15, 2020).

DHS is now publishing the ratification in the Federal Register out of an abundance of caution. Neither the ratification nor the publication is a statement that the ratified action would be invalid absent the ratification, whether published or otherwise.

Joseph N. Mazzara,

Acting General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Appendix

( printed page 51990)

( printed page 51991)

BILLING CODE 9110-9M-P

[FR Doc. 2025-20295 Filed 11-18-25; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 9110-9M-C

Legal Citation

Federal Register Citation

Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.

90 FR 51989

Web Citation

Suggested Web Citation

Use this when citing the archival web version of the document.

“Ratification of Department Action,” thefederalregister.org (November 19, 2025), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2025-20295/ratification-of-department-action.