§2723 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must tell Congress, on a timely basis, whenever a U.S. consulate denies a visa for terrorist activity or for foreign-policy reasons. The report must give the person’s name, nationality, and a short factual reason. The Secretary must also send semiannual reports of any visas issued to someone inadmissible for terrorist activity or when no objection was raised, listing name, nationality, issuing post, and a brief factual reason. Reports may be classified to protect intelligence sources and methods. “Appropriate committees” means the House Judiciary and House Foreign Affairs Committees and the Senate Judiciary and Senate Foreign Relations Committees.

Title 22, §2723

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(a)(1)The Secretary shall report, on a timely basis, to the appropriate committees of the Congress each time a consular post denies a visa on the grounds of terrorist activities or foreign policy. Such report shall set forth the name and nationality of each such person and a factual statement of the basis for such denial.

(2)The Secretary shall, on a semiannual basis, submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing every instance during the period covered by the report in which a consular post or the Visa Office of the Department of State issued an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien who is inadmissible to the United States based upon terrorist activity or failed to object to the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien notwithstanding any such ground of inadmissibility. The report shall set forth the name and nationality of the alien, the issuing post, and a brief factual statement of the basis for issuance of the visa or the failure to object. The report may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.

(b)Information contained in such report may be classified to the extent necessary and shall protect intelligence sources and methods.

(c)For the purposes of this section the term “appropriate committees of the Congress” means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

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Amendments

2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–228 designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted par. (1) heading, and added par. (2).

§2723 Denial of visas

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Title 22, §2723

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