8 U.S.C. § 1230
Section 1230 · Records of admission
This is § 240c of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 21 I. & N. Dec. 722 - S-M-J (1997)
Most recently applied in Singh v. Holder (June 2011)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed, as a record of admission of each immigrant, the immigrant visa required by section 1201(e) of this title to be surrendered at the port of entry by the arriving alien to an immigration officer.
(b) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed such record of the admission into the United States of each immigrant admitted under section 1181(b) of this title and of each nonimmigrant as the Attorney General deems necessary for the enforcement of the immigration laws.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1996—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–208, §308(f)(1)(K), substituted “admission” for “entry”.
Effective Date of 1996 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–208 effective, with certain transitional provisions, on the first day of the first month beginning more than 180 days after Sept. 30, 1996, see section 309 of Pub. L. 104–208, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.
Cross References
Definition of the term—
Alien, see section 1101(a)(3) of this title.
Attorney General, see section 1101(a)(5) of this title.
Entry, see section 1101(a)(13) of this title.
Immigrant, see section 1101(a)(15) of this title.
Immigrant visa, see section 1101(a)(16) of this title.
Immigration laws, see section 1101(a)(17) of this title.
Immigration officer, see section 1101(a)(18) of this title.
Nonimmigrant alien, see section 1101(a)(15) of this title.
United States, see section 1101(a)(38) of this title.