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§1303 Registration of Special Groups

Title 8 › Chapter 12— IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › Subchapter II— IMMIGRATION › Part VII— Registration of Aliens › § 1303

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General may make special rules and create forms for registering and fingerprinting certain noncitizens. This covers six groups, including noncitizen crew members, people with border‑crossing ID cards, noncitizens held in U.S. institutions, those under removal orders, noncitizens on or formerly on criminal probation or parole in the U.S., and any other people who are not lawful permanent residents. Those rules do not apply to nonimmigrants covered by sections 1101(a)(15)(A) or (a)(15)(G) of the law while they keep that nonimmigrant status.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1303

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(a)Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1301 and 1302 of this title, the Attorney General is authorized to prescribe special regulations and forms for the registration and fingerprinting of (1) alien crewmen, (2) holders of border-crossing identification cards, (3) aliens confined in institutions within the United States, (4) aliens under order of removal, (5) aliens who are or have been on criminal probation or criminal parole within the United States, and (6) aliens of any other class not lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
(b)The provisions of section 1302 of this title and of this section shall not be applicable to any alien who is in the United States as a nonimmigrant under section 1101(a)(15)(A) or (a)(15)(G) of this title until the alien ceases to be entitled to such a nonimmigrant status.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1996—Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 104–208, § 308(e)(1)(J), substituted “removal” for “deportation”. Subsec. (a)(5), (6). Pub. L. 104–208, § 323, added cl. (5) and redesignated former cl. (5) as (6).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1996 AmendmentAmendment by section 308(e)(1)(J) of Pub. L. 104–208 effective, with certain transitional provisions, on the first day of the first month beginning more than 180 days after Sept. 30, 1996, see section 309 of Pub. L. 104–208, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title. 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. References to Order of Removal Deemed To Include Order of Exclusion and DeportationFor purposes of carrying out this chapter, any reference in law to an order of removal is deemed to include a reference to an order of exclusion and deportation or an order of deportation, see section 309(d)(2) of Pub. L. 104–208, set out in an

Effective Date

of 1996

Amendments

note under section 1101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1303

Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60