Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 73 — International Religious Freedom
§ 6471. Use of Annual Report
Statutory text
The Annual Report, together with other relevant documentation, shall serve as a resource for immigration judges and consular, refugee, and asylum officers in cases involving claims of persecution on the grounds of religion. Absence of reference by the Annual Report to conditions described by the alien shall not constitute the sole grounds for a denial of the alien’s claim.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998
Pub. L. 105–292 title VI § 601 · 112 Stat. 2787
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6471
(Pub. L. 105–292, title VI, § 601, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2812.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 105–292, title VI, § 601, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2812.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 601. The Annual Report, together with other relevant documentation, shall serve as a resource for immigration judges and consular, refugee, and asylum officers in cases involving claims of persecution on the grounds of religion. Absence of reference by the Annual Report to conditions described by the alien shall not constitute the sole grounds for a denial of the alien’s claim.
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.