45 CFR § 400.111 - Definitions.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t45/s400.111"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "45 CFR § 400.111 - Definitions."
title_number: 45
title_name: "Public Welfare"
section_number: "400.111"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT, ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
part_number: "400"
part_name: "REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Section 412(a)(9), Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522(a)(9))."
regulatory_source: "45 FR 59323, Sept. 9, 1980, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "400"
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# 400.111 Definitions.
For purposes of this subpart—
*Child welfare agency* means an agency licensed or approved under State law to provide child welfare services to children in the State.
*Unaccompanied minor* means a person who has not yet attained 18 years of age (or a higher age established by the State of resettlement in its child welfare plan under title IV-B of the Social Security Act for the availability of child welfare services to any other child in the State); who entered the United States unaccompanied by and not destined to (a) a parent or (b) a close nonparental adult relative who is willing and able to care for the child or (c) an adult with a clear and court-verifiable claim to custody of the minor; and who has no parent(s) in the United States. *Limitation:* No child may be considered by a State to be *unaccompanied* for the purpose of this part unless such child was identified by INS at the time of entry as *unaccompanied,* except that a child who was correctly classified as *unaccompanied* by a State in accordance with Action Transmittal SSA-AT-79-04 (and official interpretations thereof by the Director) prior to the effective date of this definition may continue to be so classified until such status is terminated in accordance with § 400.113(b) of this subpart; and the Director may approve the classification of a child as *unaccompanied* on the basis of information provided by a State showing that such child should have been classified as *unaccompanied* at the time of entry.
*Title IV-B plan* means a State's plan for providing child welfare services to children in the State under part B of title IV of the Social Security Act.