Legal and Advocacy Services
for Unaccompanied Children
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/24/2024
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
11/30/2024
755,700
287,491
259,664
97,948
0
0
The Office of Refugee Resettlement
(ORR) Unaccompanied Children (UC) Bureau provides care and custody
for unaccompanied children until they can be safely released to a
sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain legal status.
ORR funds residential care provider facilities that provide
temporary housing and other services to children in ORR custody.
Generally, care provider facilities are State- licensed (with the
exception of those located in states unwilling to consider them for
licensure and temporary influx care facilities) and must meet ORR
requirements to ensure a high-level quality of care. Services
provided at care provider facilities include, but are not limited
to, education, recreation, vocational training, acculturation,
nutrition, medical, mental health, legal, and case management. ORR
uses several instruments directly related to the care of
unaccompanied children. The instruments in this information
collection allow ORR to provide legal and advocacy services to
unaccompanied children, as required by the legal authorities that
govern the bureau. This request is to remove five forms from this
collection, add two new forms, move two forms from different
information collections into this collection (with revisions to one
of those forms), and revise three existing forms in this
collection. The title of this collection has also been updated from
“Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children” to “Legal and Advocacy
Services for Unaccompanied Children.”. Details about requested
revisions are described in section A15 of Supporting Statement
A.
US Code:
8 USC
1232 Name of Law: Trafficking Victim Protection Reauthorization
Act of 2008
US Code: 6 USC
279 Name of Law: Homeland Security Act of 2002
Proposed revisions for this
information collection are detailed in section A15 of Supporting
Statement A, but include revisions to information collections, the
removal of approved forms, and the addition of new forms. ORR also
proposes retitling this information collection “Legal and Advocacy
Services for Unaccompanied Children” to clarify the types of forms
included in this information collection.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.