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§275 Transition

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

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

When duties move to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and are carried out on or after the effective date named in section 455, any law, executive order, rule, regulation, delegation, or government paper that used to name the old head or agency will now be read to mean the Director or the Bureau. Unless another law says otherwise, the official who gets a transferred duty may use the same legal powers that the person in charge had immediately before the effective date in section 455. Department of Justice staff who worked on the moved duties, plus staff for duties the Secretary says are related, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s assets, debts, contracts, property, records, and remaining appropriated funds tied to those duties, will be moved to the Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services for assignment inside the Department. This must follow section 1531 of title 31. Any unspent funds must be used only for their original purpose. The Secretary can adjust transfers of money and staff for 2 years after the effective date in section 455.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §275

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(a)References
With respect to any function transferred by this part to, and exercised on or after the effective date specified in section 455 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)Other transition issues
(1)Exercise of authorities
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)Transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel
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

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Citation

6 U.S.C. § 275

Title 6, Domestic Security

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110