Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality
Chapter 15 — Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform
§ 1736. Check of lookout databases
Statutory text
Prior to the admission of an alien under the visa waiver program established under section 1187 of this title, the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall determine that the applicant for admission does not appear in any of the appropriate lookout databases available to immigration inspectors at the time the alien seeks admission to the United States.
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.
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–173 title III § 307(b) · 116 Stat. 543
Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1736
(Pub. L. 107–173, title III, § 307(b), May 14, 2002, 116 Stat. 556.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–173, title III, § 307(b), May 14, 2002, 116 Stat. 556.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Check of Lookout Databases.— Prior to the admission of an alien under the visa waiver program established under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187), the Immigration and Naturalization Service shall determine that the applicant for admission does not appear in any of the appropriate lookout databases available to immigration inspectors at the time the alien seeks admission to the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
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 this title.