[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 8, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 8CFR103.9]



[Page 59-60]

 

                     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    (b) Unpublished decisions.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States will maintain copies of unpublished Service and Board decisions 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 Each regional commissioner will maintain copies of unpublished 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on a national basis of unpublished Service decisions.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]