Title 8 — Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-73

§1774 Annual report on aliens who fail to appear after release on own recognizance

Title 8 › Chapter CHAPTER 15— - ENHANCED BORDER SECURITY AND VISA ENTRY REFORM › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › § 1774

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must send Congress a report each year by January 15. The report must say how many noncitizens in the prior year were arrested outside a port of entry, given a notice to appear under section 1229(a)(1), released without bail on their own promise to return, and then failed to show up for their removal hearing. It must also count cases where the hearing notice or how it was served had problems, and explain whether those problems affected people showing up. The report for 2001 had a special deadline: it had to be filed no later than six months after May 14, 2002.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1774

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(a)Not later than January 15 of each year, the Attorney General shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the total number of aliens who, during the preceding year, failed to attend a removal proceeding after having been arrested outside a port of entry, served a notice to appear under section 1229(a)(1) of this title, and released on the alien’s own recognizance. The report shall also take into account the number of cases in which there were defects in notices of hearing or the service of notices of hearing, together with a description and analysis of the effects, if any, that the defects had on the attendance of aliens at the proceedings.

(b)Notwithstanding the time for submission of the annual report provided in subsection (a), the report for 2001 shall be submitted not later than 6 months after May 14, 2002.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and

Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Transfer of Functions

, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

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Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1774

Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73