8 CFR 103 - POWERS AND DUTIES; AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS
- § 103.1 — Delegations of authority; designation of immigration officers.
- § 103.2 — Applications, petitions, and other documents.
- § 103.3 — Denials, appeals, and precedent decisions.
- § 103.4 — Certifications.
- § 103.5 — Reopening or reconsideration.
- § 103.5a — Service of notification, decisions, and other papers by the Service.
- § 103.5b — Application for further action on an approved application or petition.
- § 103.6 — Surety bonds.
- § 103.7 — Fees.
- § 103.8 — Definitions pertaining to availability of information under the Freedom of Information Act.
- § 103.9 — Availability of decisions and interpretive material under the Freedom of Information Act.
- § 103.10 — Requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act.
- § 103.11 — Business information.
- § 103.12 — Definition of the term “lawfully present” aliens for purposes of applying for Title II Social Security benefits under Public Law 104-193.
- § 103.20 — Purpose and scope.
- § 103.21 — Access by individuals to records maintained about them.
- § 103.22 — Records exempt in whole or in part.
- § 103.23 — Special access procedures.
- § 103.24 — Requests for accounting of record disclosure.
- § 103.25 — Notice of access decisions; time limits.
- § 103.26 — Fees for copies of records.
- § 103.27 — Appeals from denials of access.
- § 103.28 — Requests for correction of records.
- § 103.29 — Records not subject to correction.
- § 103.30 — Accounting for disclosures.
- § 103.31 — Notices of subpoenas and emergency disclosures.
- § 103.32 — Information forms.
- § 103.33 — Contracting record systems.
- § 103.34 — Security of records systems.
- § 103.35 — Use and collection of Social Security numbers.
- § 103.36 — Employee standards of conduct with regard to privacy.
- § 103.37 — Precedent decisions.
- § 103.38 — Genealogy Program.
- § 103.39 — Historical Records.
- § 103.40 — Genealogical Research Requests.
- § 103.41 — Genealogy request fees.
Title 8 published on 2011-01-01
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GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-30510 RIN 1615-AB83 CIS No. 2481-09 Docket No. USCIS-2009-0022 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; correction. This final rule is effective November 28, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 103, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213a, 244; 245, 324; 335 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) makes technical corrections to a final rule published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2011. The final rule amended DHS regulations to enable U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to transform its business processes. The final rule also finalized seven interim rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-28985 RIN 1615-AB76 CIS No. 2459-08 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2008-0038 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; correction. This final rule is effective November 8, 2011. 8 CFR Part 103 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing a final rule to restore text that was inadvertently deleted in a September 7, 2011, final rule entitled Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Transitional Worker Classification . In that rule, we had sought to modify the title of a paragraph, but inadvertently removed the body of the paragraph. This correction restores the text of the paragraph.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-22622 RIN 1615-AB76 CIS No. 2459-08 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2008-0038 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule. This final rule is effective on October 7, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 103, 214, 274a, and 299 On October 27, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security published an interim rule creating a new, temporary, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)-only transitional worker classification (CW classification) in accordance with title VII of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (CNRA). The CW classification is intended to provide for an orderly transition from the CNMI permit system to the U.S. Federal immigration system under the immigration laws of the United States, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This final rule implements the CW classification and establishes that a CW transitional worker is an alien worker who is ineligible for another classification under the INA and who performs services or labor for an employer in the CNMI during the five-year transition period. CNMI employers may now petition for such workers. The rule also establishes employment authorization incident to CW status.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-20990 RIN 1615-AB83 CIS No. 2481-09 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2009-0022 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; request for comments. Effective date: This rule is effective November 28, 2011. Comment date: Written comments must be submitted on or before October 28, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 1, 100, 103, 204, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213a, 214, 223, 235, 236, 238, 240, 241, 244, 245, 245a, 248, 264, 265, 270, 274a, 287, 292, 299, 301, 310, 312, 316, 319, 320, 322, 324, 325, 328, 329, 330, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 343a, 343b, 343c, 392, and 499 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to enable U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to migrate from a paper file-based, non-integrated systems environment to an electronic customer-focused, centralized case management environment for benefit processing. This transformation process will allow USCIS to streamline benefit processing, eliminate the capture and processing of redundant data, and reduce the number of and automate its forms. This transformation process will be a phased multi-year initiative to restructure USCIS business processes and related information technology systems. DHS is removing references to form numbers, form titles, expired regulatory provisions, and descriptions of internal procedures, many of which will change during transformation. DHS is also finalizing interim rules that permitted submission of benefit requests with an electronic signature when such requests are submitted in an electronic format rather than on a paper form and that removed references to filing locations for immigration benefits. In addition, in this rule DHS is publishing the final rule for six other interim rules published during the past several years, most of which received no public comments.
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31 USC 9701 - Fees and charges for Government services and things of value
5 USC 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings
5 USC 552a - Records maintained on individuals
8 USC 1101 - Definitions
8 USC 1103 - Powers and duties of the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and the Attorney General
8 USC 1304 - Forms for registration and fingerprinting
8 USC 1356 - Disposition of moneys collected under the provisions of this subchapter
Executive Order ... 12356
The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to 8 CFR 103
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-7698 RIN 1615-AB99 CIS No. 2519-2011 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2012-0003 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Proposed rule. Written comments should be submitted on or before June 1, 2012. 8 CFR Parts 103 and 212 On January 9, 2012, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced its intention to change its current process for filing and adjudication of certain applications for waivers of inadmissibility filed in connection with an immediate relative immigrant visa application. USCIS now proposes to amend its regulations to allow certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who are physically present in the United States to request provisional unlawful presence waivers under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (INA or Act), prior to departing from the United States for consular processing of their immigrant visa applications. Currently, such aliens must depart from the United States and request waivers of inadmissibility during the overseas immigrant visa process, often causing U.S. citizens to be separated for extended periods from their immediate relatives who are otherwise eligible for an immigrant visa and admission for lawful permanent residence. Under the proposal, USCIS would grant a provisional unlawful presence waiver that would become fully effective upon the alien's departure from the United States and the U.S. Department of State (DOS) consular officer's determination at the time of the immigrant visa interview that, in light of the approved provisional unlawful presence waiver and other evidence of record, the alien is otherwise admissible to the United States and eligible to receive an immigrant visa. USCIS does not envision issuing Notices to Appear (NTA) to initiate removal proceedings against aliens whose provisional waiver applications have been approved. However, if USCIS, for example, discovers acts, omissions, or post-approval activity that would meet the criteria for NTA issuance or determines that the provisional waiver was granted in error, USCIS may issue an NTA, consistent with USCIS's NTA issuance policy, as well as reopen the provisional waiver approval and deny the waiver request. USCIS anticipates that the proposed changes will significantly reduce the length of time U.S. citizens are separated from their immediate relatives who are required to remain outside of the United States for immigrant visa processing and during adjudication of a waiver of inadmissibility for the unlawful presence. USCIS also believes that the proposed process, which reduces the degree of interchange between the DOS and USCIS, will create efficiencies for both the U.S. Government and most applicants. In addition to codifying the new process, USCIS proposes amendments clarifying other regulations. Even after USCIS begins accepting provisional unlawful presence waiver applications, the filing or approval of a provisional unlawful presence waiver application will not: confer any legal status, protect against the accrual of additional unlawful presence, authorize an alien to enter the United States without securing a visa or other appropriate entry document, convey any interim benefits (e.g., employment authorization, parole, or advance parole), or protect an alien from being placed in removal proceedings or removed from the United States. Do not send an application requesting a provisional waiver under the procedures under consideration in this proposed rule. Any provisional waiver application filed before the rule becomes final and effective will be rejected and the application package returned to the applicant, including any fees. USCIS will begin accepting provisional waiver applications only after a final rule is issued and the procedural change becomes effective.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2012-2470 RIN 1651-AA73 USCBP-2008-0097 CBP Dec. 11-15 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection; DHS Final rule. Effective Date: March 7, 2012. 8 CFR Parts 103 and 235 This final rule adopts, with some changes, a notice of proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register on November 19, 2009, which proposed establishing an international trusted traveler program called Global Entry. This voluntary program allows U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expedite clearance of pre-approved, low-risk air travelers arriving in the United States. This final rule establishes Global Entry as an ongoing voluntary regulatory program.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-30510 RIN 1615-AB83 CIS No. 2481-09 Docket No. USCIS-2009-0022 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; correction. This final rule is effective November 28, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 103, 207, 208, 211, 212, 213a, 244; 245, 324; 335 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) makes technical corrections to a final rule published in the Federal Register on August 29, 2011. The final rule amended DHS regulations to enable U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to transform its business processes. The final rule also finalized seven interim rules.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-28985 RIN 1615-AB76 CIS No. 2459-08 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2008-0038 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; correction. This final rule is effective November 8, 2011. 8 CFR Part 103 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is issuing a final rule to restore text that was inadvertently deleted in a September 7, 2011, final rule entitled Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Transitional Worker Classification . In that rule, we had sought to modify the title of a paragraph, but inadvertently removed the body of the paragraph. This correction restores the text of the paragraph.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-22622 RIN 1615-AB76 CIS No. 2459-08 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2008-0038 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule. This final rule is effective on October 7, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 103, 214, 274a, and 299 On October 27, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security published an interim rule creating a new, temporary, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)-only transitional worker classification (CW classification) in accordance with title VII of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (CNRA). The CW classification is intended to provide for an orderly transition from the CNMI permit system to the U.S. Federal immigration system under the immigration laws of the United States, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This final rule implements the CW classification and establishes that a CW transitional worker is an alien worker who is ineligible for another classification under the INA and who performs services or labor for an employer in the CNMI during the five-year transition period. CNMI employers may now petition for such workers. The rule also establishes employment authorization incident to CW status.
GPO FDSys XML | Text type regulations.gov FR Doc. 2011-20990 RIN 1615-AB83 CIS No. 2481-09 DHS Docket No. USCIS-2009-0022 DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, DHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Final rule; request for comments. Effective date: This rule is effective November 28, 2011. Comment date: Written comments must be submitted on or before October 28, 2011. 8 CFR Parts 1, 100, 103, 204, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213a, 214, 223, 235, 236, 238, 240, 241, 244, 245, 245a, 248, 264, 265, 270, 274a, 287, 292, 299, 301, 310, 312, 316, 319, 320, 322, 324, 325, 328, 329, 330, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 343a, 343b, 343c, 392, and 499 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to enable U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to migrate from a paper file-based, non-integrated systems environment to an electronic customer-focused, centralized case management environment for benefit processing. This transformation process will allow USCIS to streamline benefit processing, eliminate the capture and processing of redundant data, and reduce the number of and automate its forms. This transformation process will be a phased multi-year initiative to restructure USCIS business processes and related information technology systems. DHS is removing references to form numbers, form titles, expired regulatory provisions, and descriptions of internal procedures, many of which will change during transformation. DHS is also finalizing interim rules that permitted submission of benefit requests with an electronic signature when such requests are submitted in an electronic format rather than on a paper form and that removed references to filing locations for immigration benefits. In addition, in this rule DHS is publishing the final rule for six other interim rules published during the past several years, most of which received no public comments.



