Family Reunification Packet
for Sponsors of Unaccompanied Children
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Regular
11/02/2023
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2025
08/31/2025
654,315
654,315
439,455
439,455
0
0
The Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF),
Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) Unaccompanied Children (UC)
Program provides care and custody for UC 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 UC in ORR custody.
Care provider facilities must meet State licensing standards (with
the exception of temporary emergency facilities and facilities
located in states that are unwilling to license facilities caring
for UC) and 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. The Family Reunification Packet (FRP) for Sponsors of
UC information collection contains four instruments that allow ORR
to collect information necessary to determine the suitability of a
proposed sponsor for a UC as required by the Homeland Security Act
(6 U.S.C. 279), the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization
Act of 2008 (8 U.S.C. 1232), and the Flores Settlement Agreement
(No. CV85-4544-RJK (C.D. Cal. 1996)). ORR is seeking to improve
sponsor engagement and communication by expanding language access
for the instruments in this information collection. The instruments
are currently available in • English • Spanish • Dari • Haitian
Creole • Pashto • Russian • Ukrainian Under this request, ORR
proposes expanding available languages to also include the
following indigenous Mayan languages: • Chuj • Kaqchikel • K’iche’
• Mam • Q’eqchi’ None of the approved content within the
instruments has changed as a result of the translations. ACF also
moved all translations under each specific IC for reporting burden
(as opposed to under the overarching supplementary documents
section).
PL:
Pub.L. 113 - 4 1101(c) Name of Law: Violence Against Women
Reauthorization Act of 2013
US Code: 6 USC
279 Name of Law: Homeland Security Act
US Code: 8 USC
1232 Name of Law: William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)
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.