[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: 8CFR207.9]



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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY

 

               CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 207_ADMISSION OF REFUGEES--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 207.9  Termination of refugee status.



    The refugee status of any alien (and of the spouse or child of the 

alien) admitted to the United States under section 207 of the Act shall 

be terminated by any district director in whose district the alien is 

found if the alien was not a refugee within the meaning of section 

101(a)(42) of the Act at the time of admission. The district director 

shall notify the alien in writing of the Service's intent to terminate 

the alien's refugee status. The alien shall have 30 days from the date 

notice is served upon him/her or, delivered to his/her last known 

address, to present written or oral evidence to show why the alien's 

refugee status should not be terminated. There is no appeal under this 

chapter from the termination of refugee status by the district director. 

Upon termination of refugee status, the district director shall process 

the alien under sections 235, 240, and 241 of the Act.



[46 FR 45118, Sept. 10, 1981, as amended at 62 FR 10337, Mar. 6, 1997. 

Redesignated at 63 FR 3795, Jan. 27, 1998]