[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR42.2]

[Page 217]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 42--VISAS: DOCUMENTATION OF IMMIGRANTS UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A--Visa and Passport Not Required for Certain Immigrants
 
Sec. 42.2  Aliens not required to present passports.

    An immigrant within any of the following categories is not required 
to present a passport in applying for an immigrant visa:
    (a) Certain relatives of U.S. citizens. An alien who is the spouse, 
unmarried son or daughter, or parent, of a U.S. citizen, unless the 
alien is applying for a visa in the country of which the applicant is a 
national and the possession of a passport is required for departure.
    (b) Returning aliens previously lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence. An alien previously lawfully admitted for permanent residence 
who is returning from a temporary visit abroad, unless the alien is 
applying for a visa in the country of which the applicant is a national 
and the possession of a passport is required for departure.
    (c) Certain relatives of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence. An alien who is the spouse, unmarried son or daughter, or 
parent of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, unless the 
alien is applying for a visa in the country of which the applicant is a 
national and the possession of a passport is required for departure.
    (d) Stateless persons. An alien who is a stateless person, and 
accompanying spouse and unmarried son or daughter.
    (e) Nationals of Communist-controlled countries. An alien who is a 
national of a Communist-controlled country and who is unable to obtain a 
passport from the government of that country, and accompanying spouse 
and unmarried son or daughter.
    (f) Alien members of U.S. Armed Forces. An alien who is a member of 
the U.S. Armed Forces.
    (g) Beneficiaries of individual waivers. (1) An alien who would be 
within one of the categories described in paragraphs (a) through (d) of 
this section except that the alien is applying for a visa in a country 
of which the applicant is a national and possession of a passport is 
required for departure, in whose case the passport requirement has been 
waived by the Secretary of State, as evidence by a specific instruction 
from the Department.
    (2) An alien unable to obtain a passport and not within any of the 
foregoing categories, in whose case the passport requirement imposed by 
Sec. 42.64(b) or by INS regulations has been waived by the Attorney 
General and the Secretary of State as evidenced by a specific 
instruction from the Department.

[52 FR 42613, Nov. 5, 1987, as amended at 56 FR 49680, Oct. 1, 1991]