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Title 8 — Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-73not60

§1555 Immigration Service Expenses

Title 8 › Chapter 13— IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE › Subchapter I— ORGANIZATION › § 1555

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Money given to the Immigration and Naturalization Service can be used to pay for several things. It can rent privately owned horses for official work under contract, pay interpreters and translators who are not U.S. citizens, give citizenship textbooks free to noncitizens, and pay allowances (at rates set in the appropriation Act) to detained noncitizens for work they do. If an appropriation allows it, the funds can also cover secret emergency expenses spent under the Attorney General’s direction. The Attorney General may sign a statement showing the amount spent when details are not listed, and that statement counts as a proper receipt.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1555

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Appropriations now or hereafter provided for the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall be available for payment of (a) hire of privately owned horses for use on official business, under contract with officers or employees of the Service; (b) pay of interpreters and translators who are not citizens of the United States; (c) distribution of citizenship textbooks to aliens without cost to such aliens; (d) payment of allowances (at such rate as may be specified from time to time in the appropriation Act involved) to aliens, while held in custody under the immigration laws, for work performed; and (e) when so specified in the appropriation concerned, expenses of unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the amount of any such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 341d of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1555

Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60