[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR103.9]

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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 103_POWERS AND DUTIES; AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 103.9  Availability of decisions and interpretive material under 
the Freedom of Information Act.

    (a) Precedent decisions. There may be purchased from the 
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 
Washington, DC 20402, bound volumes of designated precedent decisions 
entitled ``Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality 
Laws of the United States,'' each containing a cumulative index. Prior 
to publication in volume from current precedent decisions, known as 
interim decisions, are obtainable from the Superintendent of Documents 
on a single copy or yearly subscription basis. Bound volumes and current 
precedent decisions may be read at principal Service offices.
    (b) Unpublished decisions. Each district director in the United 
States will maintain copies of unpublished Service and Board decisions 
relating to proceedings in which the initial decision was made in his 
district. Each regional commissioner will maintain copies of unpublished 
decisions made by him. The Central Office will maintain copies

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on a national basis of unpublished Service decisions.
    (c) Deletion of identifying details. To the extent that information 
in decisions is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information 
Act (5 U.S.C. 552), the deciding officer shall provide for deletion of 
identifying details, as appropriate, from copies of decisions made 
available to the public.
    (d) Statements of policy, interpretations, manuals, instructions to 
staff. Statements of policy, interpretations, and those manuals and 
instructions to staff (or portions thereof), affecting the public, will 
be made available at district offices in the United States and at the 
Central Office with an accompanying index of any material which is 
issued on or after July 4, 1967.
    (e) Public reading rooms. The Central Office and each district 
office in the United States will provide a reading room or reading area 
where the material described in this section will be made available to 
the public. Additional material will be made available in the public 
reading rooms, including the immigration and nationality laws, title 8 
of the United States Code Annotated, title 8 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations--Chapter I, a complete set of the forms listed in parts 299 
and 499 of this chapter, and the Department of State Foreign Affairs 
Manual, Volume 9--Visas. Fees will not be charged for providing access 
to any of these materials, but fees in accordance with Sec. 103.7(b) 
will be charged for furnishing copies.

[32 FR 9623, July 4, 1967, as amended at 36 FR 20151, Oct. 16, 1971; 40 
FR 7237, Feb. 19, 1975; 48 FR 49652, Oct. 27, 1983]