Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality
Chapter 13 — Immigration and Naturalization Service
§ 1571. Purposes
Statutory text
Purposes
The purposes of this subchapter are to—
provide the Immigration and Naturalization Service with the mechanisms it needs to eliminate the current backlog in the processing of immigration benefit applications within 1 year after , and to maintain the elimination of the backlog in future years; and
provide for regular congressional oversight of the performance of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in eliminating the backlog and processing delays in immigration benefits adjudications.
Policy
It is the sense of Congress that the processing of an immigration benefit application should be completed not later than 180 days after the initial filing of the application, except that a petition for a nonimmigrant visa under section 1184(c) of this title should be processed not later than 30 days after the filing of the petition.
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.
Immigration Services and Infra-structure Improvements Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–313 title II § 202 · 114 Stat. 1251
Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1571
(Pub. L. 106–313, title II, § 202, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1262.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–313, title II, § 202, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1262.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 202. PURPOSES. (a) Purposes.— The purposes of this title are to— (1) provide the Immigration and Naturalization Service with the mechanisms it needs to eliminate the current back login the processing of immigration benefit applications within1 year after enactment of this Act and to maintain the elimination of the backlog in future years; and (2) provide for regular congressional oversight of the performance of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in eliminating the backlog and processing delays in immigration benefits adjudications. (b) Policy.— It is the sense of Congress that the processing of an immigration benefit application should be completed not later than 180 days after the initial filing of the application, except that a petition for a nonimmigrant visa under section 214(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act should be processed not later than 30 days after the filing of the petition.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
For short title of title II of Pub. L. 106–313, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000”, see section 201 of Pub. L. 106–313, set out as a Short Title of 2000 Amendment note under section 1551 of this title.
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 this title.