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[CITE: 8USC1303]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                    Part VII--Registration of Aliens
 
Sec. 1303. Registration of special groups

    (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1301 and 1302 of this 
title, the Attorney General is authorized to prescribe special 
regulations and forms for the registration and fingerprinting of (1) 
alien crewmen, (2) holders of border-crossing identification cards, (3) 
aliens confined in institutions within the United States, (4) aliens 
under order of removal, (5) aliens who are or have been on criminal 
probation or criminal parole within the United States, and (6) aliens of 
any other class not lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
residence.
    (b) The provisions of section 1302 of this title and of this section 
shall not be applicable to any alien who is in the United States as a 
nonimmigrant under section 1101(a)(15)(A) or (a)(15)(G) of this title 
until the alien ceases to be entitled to such a nonimmigrant status.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 7, Sec. 263, 66 Stat. 224; Pub. 
L. 104-208, div. C, title III, Secs. 308(e)(1)(J), 323, Sept. 30, 1996, 
110 Stat. 3009-619, 3009-629.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 104-208, Sec. 308(e)(1)(J), 
substituted ``removal'' for ``deportation''.
    Subsec. (a)(5), (6). Pub. L. 104-208, Sec. 323, added cl. (5) and 
redesignated former cl. (5) as (6).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by section 308(e)(1)(J) of 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.


References to Order of Removal Deemed To Include Order of Exclusion and 
                               Deportation

    For purposes of carrying out this chapter, any reference in law to 
an order of removal is deemed to include a reference to an order of 
exclusion and deportation or an order of deportation, see section 
309(d)(2) of Pub. L. 104-208, set out in an Effective Date of 1996 
Amendments note under section 1101 of this title.
