§ 1552. — Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization; office.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 8USC1552]
TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 13--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER I--ORGANIZATION
Sec. 1552. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization;
office
The office of the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization is
created and established, and the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, is authorized and directed to appoint such
officer. The Attorney General shall provide him with a suitable,
furnished office in the city of Washington, and with such books of
record and facilities for the discharge of the duties of his office as
may be necessary.
(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 551, Sec. 7, 26 Stat. 1085; Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177,
Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 780; Apr. 28, 1904, Pub. R. 33, 33 Stat. 591; Mar. 4,
1913, ch. 141, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 737; Feb. 5, 1917, ch. 29, Sec. 23, 39
Stat. 892; Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 163, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 1118; Mar. 28, 1922,
ch. 117, title II, 42 Stat. 486; Jan. 5, 1923, ch. 24, title II, 42
Stat. 1127; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 14, June 10, 1933; 1940 Reorg. Plan
No. V, eff. June 14, 1940, 5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238; June 27, 1952,
ch. 477, title IV, Sec. 403(a)(4), 66 Stat. 279.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 342b of Title 5 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Amendments
1952--Act June 27, 1952, struck out second and fourth sentences
relating to duties of commissioner and appointment of an assistant
commissioner.
Transfer of Functions
Functions vested by law in Attorney General, Department of Justice,
or any other officer or any agency of that Department, with respect to
inspection at regular inspection locations at ports of entry of persons,
and documents of persons, entering or leaving United States, were to
have been transferred to Secretary of the Treasury by 1973 Reorg. Plan
No. 2, Sec. 2, eff. July 1, 1973, 38 F.R. 15932, 87 Stat. 1091, set out
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and employees. The
transfer was negated by section 1(a)(1), (b) of Pub. L. 93-253, Mar. 16,
1974, 88 Stat. 50, which repealed section 2 of 1973 Reorg. Plan No. 2,
eff. July 1, 1973.
Functions of all other officers of Department of Justice and
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few
exceptions, transferred to Attorney General, with power vested in him to
authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by
any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No.
2, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, set out
in the Appendix to Title 5. See sections 509 and 510 of Title 28,
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
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.
History of Immigration and Naturalization Agencies
Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 14, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under
section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees,
consolidated the two formerly separate bureaus known as the Bureau of
Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization to form the Immigration and
Naturalization Service under a Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization, which was subsequently transferred from the Department
of Labor to the Department of Justice by 1940 Reorg. Plan No. V, eff.
June 14, 1940, 5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238, set out in the Appendix to
Title 5. See note set out under section 1551 of this title.
