[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: 22CFR42.52]

[Page 233]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 42--VISAS: DOCUMENTATION OF IMMIGRANTS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart F--Numerical Controls and Priority Dates
 
Sec. 42.52  Post records of visa applications.

    (a) Waiting list. Records of individual visa applicants entitled to 
an immigrant classification and their priority dates shall be maintained 
at posts at which immigrant visas are issued. These records shall 
indicate the chronological and preferential order in which consideration 
may be given to immigrant visa applications within the several immigrant 
classifications subject to the numerical limitations specified in INA 
201, 202, and 203. Similar records shall be kept for the classes 
specified in INA 201(b)(2) and 101(a)(27) (A) and (B) which are not 
subject to numerical limitations. The records which pertain to 
applicants subject to numerical limitations constitute ``waiting lists'' 
within the meaning of INA 203(e)(3) as redesignated by the Immigration 
Act of 1990.
    (b) Entitlement to immigrant classification. An alien shall be 
entitled to immigrant classification if the alien:
    (1) Is the beneficiary of an approved petition according immediate 
relative or preference status;
    (2) Has satisfied the consular officer that the alien is entitled to 
special immigrant status under INA(101)(a)(27) (A) or (B);
    (3) Is entitled to status as a Vietnam Amerasian under section 
584(b)(1) of section 101(e) of Public Law 100-202 as amended by Public 
Law 101-167 and re-amended by Public Law 101-513; or
    (4) Beginning in FY-95, is entitled to status as a diversity 
immigrant under INA 203(c).
    (c) Record made when entitlement to immigrant classification is 
established. (1) A record that an alien is entitled to an immigrant visa 
classification shall be made on Form OF-224, Immigrant Visa Control 
Card, or through the automated system in use at selected posts, whenever 
the consular officer is satisfied--or receives evidence--that the alien 
is within the criteria set forth in paragraph (b) of this section.
    (2) A separate record shall be made of family members entitled to 
derivative immigrant status whenever the consular officer determines 
that a spouse or child is chargeable to a different foreign state or 
other numerical limitation than the principal alien. The provisions of 
INA 202(b) are to be applied as appropriate when either the spouse or 
parent is reached on the waiting list.
    (3) A separate record shall be made of a spouse or child entitled to 
derivative immigrant status whenever the consular officer determines 
that the principal alien intends to precede the family.

[56 FR 51174, Oct. 9, 1991, as amended at 61 FR 1836, Jan. 24, 1996]