Title 8 — Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-73

§1382 Acceptance and administration of gifts for immigration integration grants program

Title 8 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - IMMIGRATION › Part Part IX— - Miscellaneous › § 1382

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services may, starting in fiscal year 2017 and every year after, ask for, accept, manage, and use gifts, including donated property, to run immigrant integration grants and other citizenship programs. All gifts must be put into a separate Treasury general fund account called the "Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account." Those funds stay available until spent and are in addition to any appropriated funds.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1382

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The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is authorized in fiscal year 2017, and in each fiscal year thereafter, to solicit, accept, administer, and utilize gifts, including donations of property, for the purpose of providing an immigrant integration grants program and related activities to promote citizenship and immigrant integration: Provided, That all sums received under this subsection shall be deposited in a separate account in the general fund of the Treasury to be known as the “Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account”: Provided further, That all funds deposited into the Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account shall remain available until expended, and shall be available in addition to any funds appropriated or otherwise made available for an immigrant integration grants program or other activities to promote citizenship and immigrant integration.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1382

Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73