[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 22CFR7.7]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 7_BOARD OF APPELLATE REVIEW--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 7.7  Passport cases.

    (a) Scope of review. With respect to appeals taken from decisions of 
the Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs denying, revoking, 
restricting, or invalidating a passport under Sec. Sec. 51.70 and 51.71 
of this chapter, the Board's review, except as provided in paragraph (b) 
of this section, shall be limited to the record on which the Assistant 
Secretary's decision was based.
    (b) Admissibility of evidence. The Board shall not receive or 
consider evidence or testimony not presented at the hearing held under 
Sec. Sec. 51.81-51.89 of this chapter unless it is satisfied that such 
evidence or testimony was not available or could not have been 
discovered by the exercise of reasonable diligence prior to such 
hearing.

[44 FR 68825, Nov. 30, 1979, as amended at 53 FR 39589, Oct. 11, 1988]