§ 2723. — Denial of visas.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC2723]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Sec. 2723. Denial of visas
(a) Report to Congress
(1) Denial of visas
The Secretary shall report, on a timely basis, to the
appropriate committees of the Congress each time a consular post
denies a visa on the grounds of terrorist activities or foreign
policy. Such report shall set forth the name and nationality of each
such person and a factual statement of the basis for such denial.
(2) Visa issuance to inadmissible aliens
The Secretary shall, on a semiannual basis, submit to the
appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing every
instance during the period covered by the report in which a consular
post or the Visa Office of the Department of State issued an
immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien who is inadmissible to
the United States based upon terrorist activity or failed to object
to the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to an alien
notwithstanding any such ground of inadmissibility. The report shall
set forth the name and nationality of the alien, the issuing post,
and a brief factual statement of the basis for issuance of the visa
or the failure to object. The report may be submitted in classified
or unclassified form.
(b) Limitation
Information contained in such report may be classified to the extent
necessary and shall protect intelligence sources and methods.
(c) Appropriate committees
For the purposes of this section the term ``appropriate committees
of the Congress'' means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, Sec. 51, as added Pub. L. 102-138,
title I, Sec. 127(a), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 660; amended Pub. L. 107-
228, div. A, title II, Sec. 231, Sept. 30, 2002, 116 Stat. 1372.)
Amendments
2002--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107-228 designated existing provisions as
par. (1), inserted par. (1) heading, and added par. (2).
Change of Name
Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 6 section 236.
