[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR41.111]

[Page 212-213]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 41--VISAS: DOCUMENTATION OF NONIMMIGRANTS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart K--Issuance of Nonimmigrant Visa
 
Sec. 41.111  Authority to issue visa.


    (a) Issuance outside the United States. Any consular officer is 
authorized to

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issue regular and official visas. Diplomatic visas may be issued only 
by:
    (1) A consular officer attached to a U.S. diplomatic mission, if 
authorized to do so by the Chief of Mission; or
    (2) A consular officer assigned to a consular office under the 
jurisdiction of a diplomatic mission, if so authorized by the Department 
or the Chief, Deputy Chief, or Counselor for Consular Affairs of that 
mission, or, if assigned to a consular post not under the jurisdiction 
of a diplomatic mission, by the principal officer of that post.
    (b) Issuance in the United States in certain cases. The Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Visa Services and such officers of the 
Department as the former may designate are authorized, in their 
discretion, to issue nonimmigrant visas, including diplomatic visas, to:
    (1) Qualified aliens who are currently maintaining status and are 
properly classifiable in the A, C-2, C-3, G or NATO category and intend 
to reenter the United States in that status after a temporary absence 
abroad and who also present evidence that:
    (i) They have been lawfully admitted in that status or have, after 
admission, had their classification changed to that status; and
    (ii) Their period of authorized stay in the United States in that 
status has not expired; and
    (2) Other qualified aliens who:
    (i) Are currently maintaining status in the E, H, I, L, O, or P 
nonimmigrant category;
    (ii) Intend to reenter the United States in that status after a 
temporary absence abroad; and
    (iii) Who also present evidence that:
    (A) They were previously issued visas at a consular office abroad 
and admitted to the United States in the status which they are currently 
maintaining; and
    (B) Their period of authorized admission in that status has not 
expired.

[52 FR 42597, Nov. 5, 1987, as amended at 66 FR 12738, Feb. 28, 2001]