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[CITE: 22USC2723]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 38--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
Sec. 2723. Denial of visas


(a) Report to Congress

    The Secretary shall report, on a timely basis, to the appropriate 
committees of the Congress each time a consular post denies a visa on 
the grounds of terrorist activities or foreign policy. Such report shall 
set forth the name and nationality of each such person and a factual 
statement of the basis for such denial.

(b) Limitation

    Information contained in such report may be classified to the extent 
necessary and shall protect intelligence sources and methods.

(c) Appropriate committees

    For the purposes of this section the term ``appropriate committees 
of the Congress'' means the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
the Judiciary and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title I, Sec. 51, as added Pub. L. 102-138, 
title I, Sec. 127(a), Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 660.)

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Foreign Affairs of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on International Relations of House of 
Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
