Permissible Services

4 CMC § 5183 — under Consumer Protection.

4 CMC § 5183

TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES

DIVISION 5: BUSINESS REGULATION

§ 5183. Permissible Services. (a) Any person who provides or offers to provide immigration or residency assistance service may perform only the following services: (1) Completing a government agency form, requested by the customer and appropriate to the customer’s needs, only if the completion of that form does not involve a legal judgment for that particular matter; (2) Transcribing responses to a government agency form which is related to an immigration or residency matter, but not advising a customer as to his or her answers on those forms; (3) Translating information on forms to a customer and translating the customer’s answers to questions posed on those forms; (4) Securing for the customer supporting documents currently in existence, such as birth and marriage certificates, which may be needed to be submitted with government agency forms; (5) Translating documents from a foreign language into English, Chamorro or Carolinian; (6) Notarizing signatures on government agency forms, if the person performing the service is a notary public of the Commonwealth; (7) Making referrals, without fee, to attorneys who could undertake legal representation for a person in an immigration or residency matter; (8) Preparing or arranging for the preparation of photographs and fingerprints; (9) Arranging for the performance of medical testing and the obtaining of reports of such test results; (10) Conducting English, Chamorro and/or Carolinian language and civics courses; (11) Other services that the Attorney General determines by rule may be appropriately performed by such persons in light of the purposes of this Article. (b) The Attorney General may promulgate rules establishing maximum fees that may be charged for the services described in this section. The maximum fees must be reasonable in light of the costs of providing those services and the degree of professional skill required to provide the services. Source: PL 15-17, § 4 (5172).