<RULE>
      <PREAMB>
        <PRTPAGE P="40917"/>
        <AGENCY TYPE="F">DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY</AGENCY>
        <CFR>8 CFR Chapter I</CFR>
        <DEPDOC>[CIS No. 2555-14; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2016-0006; 1615-AC07]</DEPDOC>
        <SUBJECT>Ratification of Department Actions</SUBJECT>
        <AGY>
          <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD>
          <P>Department of Homeland Security (DHS).</P>
        </AGY>
        <ACT>
          <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD>
          <P>Ratification.</P>
        </ACT>
        <SUM>
          <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD>
          <P>The Department of Homeland Security is publishing notification of the Secretary of Homeland Security's ratification of a rule.</P>
        </SUM>
        <EFFDATE>
          <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD>
          <P>The ratification was signed on March 31, 2021 and relates back to the original date of the action that it ratifies.</P>
        </EFFDATE>
        <FURINF>
          <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD>
          <P>Leo (Chip) Boucher, Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Law, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282-9822.</P>
        </FURINF>
      </PREAMB>
      <SUPLINF>
        <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD>

        <P>On March 31, 2021, the Secretary of Homeland Security ratified a final rule entitled, EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization. <E T="03">See</E> 84 FR 35750 (July 24, 2019). The Department is now publishing the ratification in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> 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.</P>
        <SIG>
          <NAME>Adam Hunter,</NAME>
          <TITLE>Deputy Assistant Secretary for Immigration Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.</TITLE>
        </SIG>
        <HD SOURCE="HD1">Appendix</HD>
        <GPH DEEP="392" SPAN="3">
          <GID>ER30AU21.001</GID>
        </GPH>
        <PRTPAGE P="40918"/>
      </SUPLINF>
      <FRDOC>[FR Doc. 2021-16330 Filed 7-29-21; 8:45 am]</FRDOC>
      <BILCOD>BILLING CODE 9112-FP-P</BILCOD>
    </RULE>