[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 22CFR7.2]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 7_BOARD OF APPELLATE REVIEW--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 7.2  Establishment of Board of Appellate Review; purpose.

    (a) There is hereby established the Board of Appellate Review of the 
Department of State to consider and determine appeals within the purview 
of Sec. 7.3. The Board shall take any action it considers appropriate 
and necessary to the disposition of cases appealed to it.
    (b) For administrative purposes, the Board shall be part of the 
Office of the Legal Adviser. The merits of appeals or decisions of the 
Board shall not be subject to review by the Legal Adviser or any other 
Department official, except that the Department may administratively 
vacate a Certificate of Loss of Nationality on its own initiative at any 
time, notwithstanding an intervening decision by the Board sustaining 
the Department's original determination.

[44 FR 68825, Nov. 30, 1979, as amended at 56 FR 55457, Oct. 28, 1991]