Title 8 — Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-73not60
§1382 Acceptance and Administration of Gifts for Immigration Integration Grants Program
Title 8 › Chapter 12— IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › Subchapter II— IMMIGRATION › Part IX— Miscellaneous › § 1382
Summary
In fiscal year 2017 and after, the USCIS Director may ask for, accept, manage, and use gifts (including property) to support immigrant integration grants and citizenship activities. All funds must go into the Treasury's "Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account," stay available until spent, and add to appropriated funds.
Full Legal Text
Title 8, §1382
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The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is authorized in fiscal year 2017, and in each fiscal year thereafter, to solicit, accept, administer, and utilize gifts, including donations of property, for the purpose of providing an immigrant integration grants program and related activities to promote citizenship and immigrant integration: Provided, That all sums received under this subsection shall be deposited in a separate account in the general fund of the Treasury to be known as the “Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account”: Provided further, That all funds deposited into the Citizenship Gift and Bequest Account shall remain available until expended, and shall be available in addition to any funds appropriated or otherwise made available for an immigrant integration grants program or other activities to promote citizenship and immigrant integration.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2017, and also as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.
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Citation
8 U.S.C. § 1382
Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60