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[CITE: 8USC1155]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                        Part I--Selection System
 
Sec. 1155. Revocation of approval of petitions; notice of 
        revocation; effective date
        
    The Attorney General may, at any time, for what he deems to be good 
and sufficient cause, revoke the approval of any petition approved by 
him under section 1154 of this title. Such revocation shall be effective 
as of the date of approval of any such petition. In no case, however, 
shall such revocation have effect unless there is mailed to the 
petitioner's last known address a notice of the revocation and unless 
notice of the revocation is communicated through the Secretary of State 
to the beneficiary of the petition before such beneficiary commences his 
journey to the United States. If notice of revocation is not so given, 
and the beneficiary applies for admission to the United States, his 
admissibility shall be determined in the manner provided for by sections 
1225 and 1229a of this title.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 1, Sec. 205, 66 Stat. 180; Pub. 
L. 86-363, Sec. 5(a), (b), Sept. 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 644, 645; Pub. L. 
87-301, Secs. 3, 10, Sept. 26, 1961, 75 Stat. 650, 654; Pub. L. 89-236, 
Sec. 5, Oct. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 916; Pub. L. 104-208, div. C, title III, 
Sec. 308(g)(3)(A), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-622.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-208 substituted ``1229a'' for ``1226''.
    1965--Pub. L. 89-236 struck out entire section which had set out, in 
subsecs. (a) to (d), the procedure for granting nonquota status or 
preference by reason of relationship and inserted in its place, with 
minor changes, provisions formerly contained in section 1156 of this 
title authorizing the Attorney General to revoke his approval of 
petitions for good and sufficient cause.
    1961--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87-301, Sec. 3(a), provided that no 
petition for quota immigration status or a preference shall be approved 
if the beneficiary is an alien defined in section 1101(b)(1)(F) of this 
title, established requirements to be met by petitioners before a 
petition for nonquota immigrant status for a child as defined in section 
1101(b)(1)(F) can be approved by the Attorney General, and authorized 
the administration of oaths by immigration officers when the petition is 
executed outside the United States.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87-301, Secs. 3(b), 10, substituted ``section 
1101(b)(1)(E) or (F)'' for ``section 1101(b)(1)(E)'', and provided that 
no petition shall be approved if the alien had previously been accorded 
a nonquota status under section 1101(a)(27)(A) of this title or a 
preference quota status under section 1153(a)(3) of this title, by 
reason of marriage entered into to evade the immigration laws.
    1959--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86-363, Sec. 5(a), authorized filing of 
petitions by any United States citizen claiming that an immigrant is his 
unmarried son or unmarried daughter, by any alien lawfully admitted for 
permanent residence claiming that an immigrant is his unmarried son or 
unmarried daughter instead of child, or by any United States citizen 
claiming that an immigrant is his married son or married daughter 
instead of son or daughter, and prohibited approval of petition for 
quota immigrant status or preference of alien without proof of parent 
relationship of the petitioner to such alien.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 86-363, Sec. 5(b), limited approval to two 
petitions for one petitioner in behalf of a child as defined in section 
1101(b)(1)(E) of this title unless necessary to prevent separation of 
brothers and sisters.


                    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.


                    Effective Date of 1965 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 89-236, see section 20 of 
Pub. L. 89-236, set out as a note under section 1151 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1154 of this title.
