[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: 22CFR42.31]

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                       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 D--Immigrants Subject to Numerical Limitations
 
Sec. 42.31  Family-sponsored immigrants.

    Source: 56 FR 49676, Oct. 1, 1991, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) Entitlement to status. An alien shall be classifiable as a 
family-sponsored immigrant under INA 203(a) (1), (2), (3) or (4) if the 
consular officer has received from INS a Petition to Classify Status of 
Alien Relative for Issuance of Immigrant Visa approved in accordance 
with INA 204 to accord the alien such preference status, or official 
notification of such an approval, and the consular officer is satisfied 
that the alien has the relationship to the petitioner indicated in the 
petition. In the case of a petition according an alien status under INA 
203(a) (1) or (3) or status as an unmarried son or daughter under INA 
203(a)(2), the petitioner must be a ``parent'' as defined in INA 
101(b)(2) and 22 CFR 40.1. In the case of a petition to accord an alien 
status under INA 203(a)(4) filed on or after January 1, 1977, the 
petitioner must be at least twenty-one years of age.
    (b) Entitlement to derivative status. Pursuant to INA 203(d), and 
whether or not named in the petition, the child of a family-sponsored 
first, second, third or fourth preference immigrant or the spouse of a 
family-sponsored third or fourth preference immigrant, if not otherwise 
entitled to an immigrant status and the immediate issuance of a visa, is 
entitled to a derivative status corresponding to the classification and 
priority date of the beneficiary of the petition.

[56 FR 49676, Oct. 1, 1991, as amended at 61 FR 1836, Jan. 24, 1996]