[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 22, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 22CFR50.2]



[Page 233-234]

 

                       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]