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Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Ratification.
The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notice of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.
The ratification was signed on October 29, 2025 and relates back to the original date of the action that it ratifies.
Office of the General Counsel, DHS, Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282-9822.
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.
