8 U.S.C. § 1187a — Provision of assistance to non-program countries
submitted 11 years ago by Pub. L. 114-113 to r/title-8-ALIENS-AND-NATIONALITY · 103 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary must give risk-based assistance to countries outside the visa waiver program concerning lost passports and secure electronic passports.
The Secretary must help such countries report passport* theft or loss to Interpol and issue and validate fraud-resistant electronic passports meeting the stated information and international-standard requirements.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of State*, shall provide assistance in a risk-based manner to countries that do not participate in the visa waiver program under section 1187 of this title to assist those countries in—
submitting to Interpol information about the theft or loss of passports of citizens or nationals of such a country; and
issuing, and validating at the ports of entry of such a country, electronic passports that are fraud-resistant, contain relevant biographic and biometric information (as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security), and otherwise satisfy internationally accepted standards for electronic passports.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 114–113, div. O, title II, § 208, Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2995.)
- 2015Enacted · Pub. L. 114-113 · 129 Stat. 2995
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