| ADAG |
Associate Deputy Attorney General |
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| AG |
Attorney General |
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| AOR |
Affidavit of relationship (a document used to start the process that may lead to refugee admission under family-based access priorities) |
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| BID |
Best interests determination (a determination by a child welfare professional, generally required before major decisions are made regarding unaccompanied minors) |
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| BTS |
Directorate of Border and Transportation Security in the Department of Homeland Security |
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| CBP |
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, a component of BTS |
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| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
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| CIS |
See USCIS |
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| CLASS |
Consular Lookout and Support System |
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| DAG |
Deputy Attorney General |
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| DHS |
Department of Homeland Security |
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| DOJ |
Department of Justice |
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| DOS |
Department of State |
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| DRL |
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Department of State |
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| EAD |
Employment authorization document |
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| FAM |
Foreign Affairs Manual |
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| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| FY |
Fiscal year |
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| HIAS |
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society |
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| IOM |
International Organization for Migration |
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| ICE |
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a component of BTS |
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| ICMC |
International Catholic Migration Commission |
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| IDP |
Internally displaced person |
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| INA |
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended |
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| INS |
Immigration and Naturalization Service |
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| IRC |
International Rescue Committee |
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| JVA |
Joint voluntary agency |
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| LPR |
Lawful permanent resident |
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| NSC |
National Security Council |
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| NGO |
Nongovernmental organization |
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| OPE |
Overseas Processing Entity |
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| ORR |
Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services |
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| P-1, P-2, etc. |
Designations for the priority categories that structure access to the U.S. Refugee Program, explained in detail in Chapter III |
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| PD |
Presidential Determination (the document issued annually by the President to set the total number and allocation of refugee admissions for the coming fiscal year) |
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| PRM |
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration in the Department of State |
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| PVO |
Private voluntary organization (also sometimes called a volag) |
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| RAVU |
Refugee Access Verification Unit of USCIS |
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| RCUSA |
Refugee Council USA (umbrella organization of resettlement-focused voluntary agencies) |
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| Refcoord |
Refugee Coordinator (a State Department officer in selected posts abroad) |
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| RFR |
Request for reconsideration |
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| RPC |
Refugee Processing Center (a key facility in the refugee admissions system, located in Arlington, Virginia) |
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| RRF |
Resettlement registration form (a UNHCR document) |
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| RSD |
Refugee status determination (the term is usually applied to this process as carried out by UNHCR) |
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| RSO |
Regional security officer (chief security officer for an embassy) |
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| SAO |
Security advisory opinion |
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| SSA |
Social Security Administration |
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| TPS |
Temporary protected status |
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| UNHCR |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
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| USCIS |
Preferred acronym for the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of DHS (also sometimes referred to simply as CIS) |
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| USRP |
The United States Refugee Program |
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| Visas 92 and 93 |
The systems that are used for the admission of immediate family members who are following to join persons granted durable status in the United States based on their fear of persecution in the country of origin. The Visas 92 system is used for family members of persons granted asylum under INA § 208, and Visas 93 for family members of persons admitted as part of the overseas refugee resettlement program under INA § 207. |
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| Volag |
Voluntary agency (also sometimes called PVO) |
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| WRAPS |
Worldwide Refugee Admissions Processing System (key database used in the refugee admissions system, managed by the RPC) |
