Title 6 — Domestic SecurityRelease 119-73not60
§291 Abolishment of Ins
Title 6 › Chapter 1— HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › Subchapter IV— BORDER, MARITIME, AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY › Part F— General Immigration Provisions › § 291
Summary
After all required transfers are finished, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) inside the Department of Justice is ended. That authority can reorganize units inside the two bureaus but cannot merge the bureaus or their functions.
Full Legal Text
Title 6, §291
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(a)Upon completion of all transfers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as provided for by this chapter, the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice is abolished.
(b)The authority provided by section 542 of this title may be used to reorganize functions or organizational units within the Bureau of Border Security or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but may not be used to recombine the two bureaus into a single agency or otherwise to combine, join, or consolidate functions or organizational units of the two bureaus with each other.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (b), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement
by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. Mar. 1, 2003, H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.
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6 U.S.C. § 291
Title 6 — Domestic Security
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60