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.