8 CFR § 208.22 - Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings.

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title: "8 CFR § 208.22 - Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings."
title_number: 8
title_name: "Aliens and Nationality"
section_number: "208.22"
section_name: "Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
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subchapter_name: "IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS"
part_number: "208"
part_name: "PROCEDURES FOR ASYLUM AND WITHHOLDING OF REMOVAL"
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# 208.22 Effect on exclusion, deportation, and removal proceedings.

An alien who has been granted asylum may not be deported or removed unless his or her asylum status is terminated pursuant to § 208.24. An alien in exclusion, deportation, or removal proceedings who is granted withholding of removal or deportation, or deferral of removal, may not be deported or removed to the country to which his or her deportation or removal is ordered withheld or deferred unless the withholding order is terminated pursuant to § 208.24 or deferral is terminated pursuant to § 208.17(d) or (e).

[64 FR 8492, Feb. 19, 1999. Revised at 65 FR 76136, Dec. 6, 2000]