[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: 22CFR50.2]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 50--NATIONALITY PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Subpart A--Procedures for Determination of United States Nationality of 
                             a Person Abroad
 
Sec. 50.2  Determination of U.S. nationality of persons abroad.


    The Department shall determine claims to United States nationality 
when made by persons abroad on the basis of an application for 
registration, for a passport, or for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad 
of a Citizen of the

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United States of America. Such determinations of nationality may be made 
abroad by a consular officer or a designated nationality examiner. A 
designated nationality examiner may accept and approve/disapprove 
applications for registration and accept and approve/disapprove 
applications for passports and issue passports. Under the supervision of 
a consular officer, designated nationality examiners shall accept, 
adjudicate, disapprove and provisionally approve applications for the 
Consular Report of Birth Abroad. A Consular Report of Birth Abroad may 
only be issued by a consular officer, who will review a designated 
nationality examiner's provisional approval of an application for such 
report and issue the report if satisfied that the claim to nationality 
has been established.

[31 FR 13537, Oct. 20, 1966, as amended at 61 FR 43311, Aug. 22, 1996]