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Title 6 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › Part Part E— - Citizenship and Immigration Services › § 275

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When a job or duty is moved to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services on or after the effective date in section 455, any place in law, orders, rules, or government papers that used to point to the old agency head will now point to that Director. Any place that named the old agency will now mean the Bureau. The official who gets the job can use the same legal powers the previous official had to do the work, unless another law says otherwise. People, assets, debts, contracts, property, records, and remaining funds tied to those duties at the Immigration and Naturalization Service are moved to the Director so they can be assigned inside the Department. Any unspent money must still be used for its original purpose. The Secretary may adjust how people and money were moved for 2 years after the effective date in section 455.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §275

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(a)With respect to any function transferred by this part to, and exercised on or after the effective date specified in section 455 11 See References in Text note below. by, the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, any reference in any other Federal law, Executive order, rule, regulation, or delegation of authority, or any document of or pertaining to a component of government from which such function is transferred—
(1)to the head of such component is deemed to refer to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services; or
(2)to such component is deemed to refer to the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.
(b)(1)Except as otherwise provided by law, a Federal official to whom a function is transferred by this part may, for purposes of performing the function, exercise all authorities under any other provision of law that were available with respect to the performance of that function to the official responsible for the performance of the function immediately before the effective date specified in section 455.1
(2)The personnel of the Department of Justice employed in connection with the functions transferred by this part (and functions that the Secretary determines are properly related to the functions of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services), and the assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balance of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available to, or to be made available to, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in connection with the functions transferred by this part, subject to section 1531 of title 31, shall be transferred to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for allocation to the appropriate component of the Department. Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds were originally authorized and appropriated. The Secretary shall have the right to adjust or realign transfers of funds and personnel effected pursuant to this part for a period of 2 years after the effective date specified in section 455.1

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This part, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle E (§§ 451–462) of title IV of Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2195, which enacted this part, amended section 1356 and 1573 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 271 of this title. For complete classification of subtitle E to the Code, see Tables. For the

Effective Date

specified in section 455, referred to in text, see section 455 of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 271 of this title. Codification In subsec. (b)(2), “section 1531 of title 31” substituted for “section 202 of the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the date on which the

Transfer of Functions

specified under section 251 of this title takes effect, see section 455 of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as a note under section 271 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

6 U.S.C. § 275

Title 6Domestic Security

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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