Unaccompanied Alien Children Assessments for Children and Sponsors
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number)
No
Regular
Approved without change
08/22/2025
05/28/2025
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2028
36 Months From Approved
1,394,640
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0
1,355,586
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0
0
0
0
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Bureau provides care and custody for unaccompanied alien children until they can be safely released to a sponsor, repatriated to their home country, or obtain lawful immigration 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, except those located in states unwilling to consider them for licensure and temporary emergency or influx care facilities and must meet ORR requirements to ensure a high-level quality of care. In order to adequately provide for the safety and wellbeing of children in ORR care, ORR conducts assessments of the child upon admission and at routine intervals while in ORR custody. Concurrently, ORR must identify and assess the suitability of potential sponsors and household members to ensure safe and timely release of the child to vetted and adult, qualified to provide for the childâs physical and emotional wellbeing.
ORR uses several instruments to carry out its responsibilities with respect to UAC. These instruments are used, for example, to evaluate the childâs physical and mental health status, capture important biographic data, determine risk of sexual abuse or victimization, and enable ORR to track high-level milestones in the childâs case up through release. ORR has also developed an instrument to identify and screen potential sponsors. The instruments in this proposed information collection allow ORR to document the findings of these assessments as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279); the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232); the Foundational Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 410; and the Prevention of Sexual Abuse Interim Final Rule, 45 C.F.R. Part 411. Forms transferred from the Services information collection (OMB # 0970-0553) were last approved by OMB on August 22, 2024 and expire on April 30, 2025. Once approved, the Assessments information collection will contain a total of 9 unique, revised forms.
US Code:
8 USC 1232
Name of Law: William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)
US Code:
6 USC 279
Name of Law: Homeland Security Act (HSA)
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) Bureau has undertaken a reorganization of its information collections with the goal of promoting operational efficiency for the UACB by creating more unique information collections with fewer total forms under each OMB number. This will reduce the burden associated with renewing large collections and clarify future requests for modifications and renewals under these narrower purpose-specific collections. This package pertains to the creation of a new information collection: Unaccompanied Alien Children Assessments for Children and Sponsors (OMB #0970-NEW)
Under this application for, ORR proposes to revise and transfer seven existing forms currently approved under the Services Provided to Unaccompanied Alien Children (OMB# 0970-0553) information collection, as well as the creation of two new instruments.
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.