{"data":{"id":"us/22-cfr-50.2","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"22 CFR 50.2","heading":"Determination of U.S. nationality of persons abroad.","body":"The Department shall determine claims to United States nationality when made by persons abroad on the basis of an application for registration, for a passport, or for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States of America. Such determinations of nationality may be made abroad by a consular officer or a designated nationality examiner. A designated nationality examiner may accept and approve/disapprove applications for registration and accept and approve/disapprove applications for passports and issue passports. Under the supervision of a consular officer, designated nationality examiners shall accept, adjudicate, disapprove and provisionally approve applications for the Consular Report of Birth Abroad. A Consular Report of Birth Abroad may only be issued by a consular officer, who will review a designated nationality examiner's provisional approval of an application for such report and issue the report if satisfied that the claim to nationality has been established.","path":["Title 22—Foreign Relations","CHAPTER I—DEPARTMENT OF STATE","SUBCHAPTER F—NATIONALITY AND PASSPORTS","PART 50—NATIONALITY PROCEDURES","Subpart A—Procedures for Determination of United States Nationality of a Person Abroad"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-22.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:49Z","sha256":"8a08693d26287f7dc8829252bbf2efe9cc7bd15d6c6ddeb8fd559271805cab4a","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/22-cfr-50.1","next":"us/22-cfr-50.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}