Ratification of Department Actions

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#  Ratification of Department Actions

**AGENCY:**

Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

**ACTION:**

Ratification.

**SUMMARY:**

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

**DATES:**

The ratification was signed on May 4, 2021 and relates back to the original date of each action that it ratifies.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Leo (Chip) Boucher, Assistant General Counsel, Administrative Law, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, (202) 282-9822.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

On May 4, 2021, the Secretary of Homeland Security ratified a final rule entitled, Removal of 30-Day Processing Provision for Asylum Applicant-Related Form I-765 Employment Authorization Applications, as well as the associated notice of proposed rulemaking. *See* 85 FR 37502 (June 22, 2020); 84 FR 47148 (Sept. 9, 2019). The Department 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.

Signed:

Adam Hunter,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Immigration Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.