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8 USC § 1573 - Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t8/s1573"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "8 USC § 1573 - Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account"
title_number: 8
title_name: "ALIENS AND NATIONALITY"
section_number: "1573"
section_name: "Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account"
chapter_number: 13
chapter_name: "IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 106–313, title II, § 204, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 458, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2201.)"
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# § 1573. Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account

**(a)** **Authority of the Attorney General** The Attorney General shall take such measures as may be necessary to—

**(1)** reduce the backlog in the processing of immigration benefit applications, with the objective of the total elimination of the backlog 1 year after November 25, 2002;

**(2)** make such other improvements in the processing of immigration benefit applications as may be necessary to ensure that a backlog does not develop after such date; and

**(3)** make such improvements in infrastructure as may be necessary to effectively provide immigration services.

**(b)** **Authorization of appropriations**

**(1)** **In general** There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice from time to time such sums as may be necessary for the Attorney General to carry out subsection (a).

**(2)** **Designation of account in treasury** Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) may be referred to as the “Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account”.

**(3)** **Availability of funds** Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until expended.

**(4)** **Limitation on expenditures** section 1574(a) of this title

None of the funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) may be expended until the report described in  has been submitted to Congress.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 106–313, title II, § 204, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1263; Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 458, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2201.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2002—Subsec. (a)(1).  substituted “1 year after ;” for “not later than one year after ;”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2002 Amendment

Amendment by  effective 60 days after , see , set out as an Effective Date note under , Domestic Security.

### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under .