[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR41.24]

[Page 183-184]
 
                       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 C--Foreign Government Officials
 
Sec. 41.24  International organization aliens.

    (a) Definition of international organization. ``International 
organization'' means:
    (1) Any public international organization which has been designated 
by the President by Executive Order as entitled to enjoy the privileges, 
exemptions, and immunities provided for in the International 
Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669, 22 U.S.C. 288); and

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    (2) For the purpose of special immigrant status under INA 
101(a)(27)(I), INTELSAT or any successor or separated entity thereof.
    (b) Aliens coming to international organizations. (1) An alien is 
classifiable under INA 101(a)(15)(G) if the consular officer is 
satisfied that the alien is within one of the classes described in that 
section and seeks to enter or transit the United States in pursuance of 
official duties. If the purpose of the entry or transit is other than 
pursuance of official duties, the alien is not classifiable under INA 
101(a)(15)(G).
    (2) An alien applying for a visa under the provisions of INA 
101(a)(15)(G) may not be refused solely on the grounds that the 
applicant is not a national of the country whose government the 
applicant represents.
    (3) An alien seeking to enter the United States as a foreign 
government representative to an international organization, who is also 
proceeding to the United States on official business as a foreign 
government official within the meaning of INA 101(a)(15)(A), shall be 
issued a visa under that section, if otherwise qualified.
    (4) An alien not classifiable under INA 101(a)(15)(A) but entitled 
to classification under INA 101(a)(15)(G) shall be classified under the 
latter section, even if also eligible for another nonimmigrant 
classification.
    (c) Officers and employees of privatized INTELSAT, their family 
members and domestic servants. (1) Officers and employees of privatized 
INTELSAT who both were employed by INTELSAT, and held status under INA 
101(a)(15)(G)(iv) for at least six months prior to privatization on July 
17,2001, will continue to be so classifiable for so long as they are 
officers or employees of INTELSAT or a successor or separated entity 
thereof.
    (2) Aliens who had had G-4 status as officers and employees of 
INTELSAT but became officers or employees of a successor or separated 
entity of INTELSAT after at least six months of such employment, but 
prior to and in anticipation of privatization and subsequent to March 
17, 2000, will also continue to be classifiable under INA 
101(a)(15)(G)(iv) for so long as that employment continues.
    (3) Family members of officers and employees described in paragraphs 
(c)(1) and (2) of this section who qualify as ``immediate family'' under 
Sec. 41.21(a)(3) and who are accompanying or following to join the 
principal are also classifiable under INA 1010(a)(15)(G)(iv) for so long 
as the principal is so classified.
    (4) Attendants, servants, and personal employees of officers and 
employees described in paragraphs (c)(1) and (2) of this section are not 
eligible for classification under INA 101(a)(15)(G)(v), given that the 
officers and employees described in paragraphs (c)(1) and (2) of this 
section are not officers or employees of an ``international 
organization'' for purposes of INA 101(a)(15)(G).

[52 FR 42597, Nov. 5, 1987, as amended at 67 FR 1414, Jan. 11, 2002; 67 
FR 18822, Apr. 17, 2002]