Visas: Issuance of New or Replacement Immigrant Visas

Status: In force. The effective date has passed and nothing here records a change to that.

From the published effective date. Nothing here records a court changing it.

• Document number: 98-1780
• Type: Final Rule
• Published: January 29, 1998
• Effective: January 29, 1998
• Agency: State Department; Bureau of Consular Affairs

Official abstract

This rule amends the Department's regulations to comply with a change in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that requires the Department to factor the number of immigrant visas issued to immediate relatives into the annual worldwide limitation on immigration.

Primary source

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