Ratification of Department Action

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#  Ratification of Department Action

**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. *See* 85 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.

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