8 CFR 310.1
§ 310.1 Administrative naturalization authority.
United States · 8 CFR — Aliens and Nationality · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 8 CFR 310.1, § 310.1 Administrative naturalization authority, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/32363
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:32363@1- SHA-256
470eefdcd8e196470bb10a4df47494ab14ef58419c26711ed33cb173a41a4edb
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
(a) Attorney General. Commencing October 1, 1991, section 310 of the Act confers the sole authority to naturalize persons as citizens of the United States upon the Attorney General.
(b) Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Pursuant to § 2.1 of this chapter, the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service is authorized to perform such acts as are necessary and proper to implement the Attorney General's authority under the provisions of section 310 of the Act.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.