Raise the credible fear standard to the asylum standard
What the document says“The standard for a credible fear of persecution should be raised and aligned to the standard for asylum.”
Credible fear is the initial screening a person must pass to have an asylum claim heard, and its threshold is lower than the standard for winning asylum. The chapter asks that the two be aligned and that the screening account specifically for credibility determinations.
What the document actually says“The standard for a credible fear of persecution should be raised and aligned to the standard for asylum.”
Raise the first test people must pass. Make it as hard as the full asylum test.
People who ask for asylum face a first check. It is easier than the full test. The book says the first check should be just as hard.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The rule confirms the effective date of a 2020 rule that made aliens who pose a public health risk ineligible for asylum and withholding of removal and revised credible fear screening for those cases, while withdrawing parts of it that later amendments had overtaken. It changes screening for one category of bar. It does not raise the credible fear threshold generally, does not align it with the standard for winning asylum, and does not add a credibility determination to the screening. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.