[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR208.21]

[Page 207-208]
 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
CHAPTER I--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 208--PROCEDURES FOR ASYLUM AND WITHHOLDING OF REMOVAL--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart A--Asylum and Withholding of Removal
 
Sec. 208.21  Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings.

    (a) An alien who has been granted asylum may not be deported or 
removed unless his or her asylum status is terminated pursuant to 
Sec. 208.23 of this part. An alien in exclusion, deportation, or removal 
proceedings who is granted withholding of removal or deportation or 
deferral of removal may not be deported or removed to the country to 
which his or her deportation or removal is ordered withheld or deferred 
unless the withholding order is terminated pursuant to Sec. 208.23 or 
deferral is terminated pursuant to Sec. 208.17(d) or (e).
    (b) When an alien's asylum status or withholding of removal or 
deportation is terminated under this part, the Service shall initiate 
removal proceedings under section 235 or 240 of the Act, as appropriate, 
if the alien is not already in exclusion, deportation, or removal 
proceedings or subject to a final order of removal. Removal proceedings 
may also be in conjunction with a termination hearing scheduled under 
Sec. 208.23(e).

[64 FR 8492, Feb. 19, 1999]

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    Effective Date Note: At 65 FR 76136, Dec. 6, 2000, Sec. 208.21 was 
redesignated as Sec. 208.22 and then revised, effective Jan. 5, 2001. 
For the convenience of the user, the revised text is set forth as 
follows:

Sec. 208.22  Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings.

    An alien who has been granted asylum may not be deported or removed 
unless his or her asylum status is terminated pursuant to Sec. 208.24. 
An alien in exclusion, deportation, or removal proceedings who is 
granted withholding of removal or deportation, or deferral of removal, 
may not be deported or removed to the country to which his or her 
deportation or removal is ordered withheld or deferred unless the 
withholding order is terminated pursuant to Sec. 208.24 or deferral is 
terminated pursuant to Sec. 208.17(d) or (e).