Appendix II
Resettlement in USA
Admission Criteria
The US Government has since 8 March 1982 applied
a new set of criteria on the admission of Indochinese
refugees.
Compelling concern/interest.
Priority 1:
Priority 2:
Former US Government Employees.
Priority 3:
Priority 4:
Priority 5:
Priority 6:
Family Reunification (spouses, sons, daughters, parents, grandparents, unmarried siblings).
Other ties to the US (employees of US foundations, voluntary agencies or firms, persons who played a meaningful role in the social, economic, political, religious, intellectual or artistic life of the former societies of Indochina).
Additional Family Reunification (married siblings, grandchildren, relatives dependent on US family for support).
Otherwise of National Interest.
The applicants concerned must satisfy the US Government that they have fled their homeland for political reasons, that is, they fall within the definition of a refugee. In early August 1983, a working level meeting of US State Department and INS officials was held in Manila. New US guidelines have since replaced the determination of refugee status on individual basis with a 'presumptive refugee status' for specific groups. For Vietnam, these
groups are:
Previous ARVN Personnel
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
Previous employees of South Vietnam Government
Ethnic Chinese
(iv)
Religious groups
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
(viii)
Montagnard groups previously linked to US forces
Western educated persons
Previous inmates of re-education camps
Those sent to labour camps and NEZs for political
reasons.
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