{"data":{"id":"us/8-cfr-316.20","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"8 CFR 316.20","heading":"American institutions of research, public international organizations, and designations under the International Immunities Act.","body":"(a) American institutions of research. The following-listed organizations have been determined to be American Institutions of research recognized by the Attorney General:\nAfrican Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF-USA).\nAlbert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (only in relationship to its research programs).\nAmerican Friends of the Middle East, Inc.\nAmerican Institutes of Research in the Behavioral Sciences (only in relationship to research projects abroad).\nAmerican Universities Field Staff, Inc.\nAmerican University, The, Cairo, Egypt.\nAmerican University of Beirut (Near East College Associations).\nArctic Institute of North America, Inc.\nArmour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology.\nAsia Foundation, The (formerly Committee for a Free Asia, Inc.).\nAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA, Inc.), Tucson, AZ.\nAtomic Bomb Casualty Commission.\nBeirut University College.\nBermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.\nBernice P. Biship Museum of Polynesian Antiquities, Ethnology and Natural History at Honolulu, HI.\nBrookhaven National Laboratory, Associated Universities, Inc.\nBrown University (Department of Engineering), Providence, RI.\nBuffalo Eye Bank and Research Society, Inc.\nBurma Office of Robert N. Nathan Associates, Inc.\nCalifornia State University at Long Beach, Department of Geological Sciences.\nCarleton College (Department of Sociology and Anthropology), Northfield, MN.\nCenter of Alcohol Studies, Laboratory of Applied Biodynamics of Yale University.\nCentral Registry of Jewish Losses in Egypt.\nCollege of Engineering, University of Wisconsin.\nCollege of Medicine, State University of New York.\nColorado State University (Research Foundation), Fort Collins, CO.\nColorado University (International Economic Studies Center), Boulder, CO.\nColumbia University (Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law) and (Faculty of Pure Science), New York, NY.\nCornell University (International Agricultural Development, University of the Philippines-Cornell University Graduate Education Program).\nDartmouth Medical School.\nDepartment of French, Department of Scandinavian Languages, and Department of Near Eastern Languages of the University of California, Berkeley, CA.\nDuke University.\nEnvironmental Research Laboratory of the University of Arizona.\nFletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, MA.\nFord Foundation, 477 Madison Avenue, New York, NY.\nFree Europe, Inc. (formerly Free Europe Committee, Inc.; National Committee for a Free Europe (including Radio Free Europe)).\nGeorgetown University.\nGeorge Williams Hooper Foundation, San Francisco Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA.\nGorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Inc., and its operating unit, the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory.\nGraduate Faculty of Political and Social Science Division of the New School for Social Research, New York, NY.\nHarvard University (research and educational programs only)\nHarvard-Yenching Institute.\nHumboldt State University, School of Natural Resources, Wildlife Management Department.\nIndiana University at Bloomington, Indianapolis, South Bend, Northwest, Kokomo, Southeast, East, and Fort Wayne\nInstitute for Development Anthropology, Inc.\nInstitute of International Education, Inc.\nInstitute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA.\nInternational Center for Social Research, New York, NY.\nInternational Development Foundation, Inc.\nInternational Development Services, Inc.\nInternational Research Associates, Inc.\nInter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (formerly Stanford Center for Chinese Studies) in Taipei, Taiwan.\nIowa State University.\nIran Foundation, Inc., The.\nKossuth Foundation, Inc., The, New York, NY.\nLouisiana State University.\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology.\nMichigan State University, East Lansing, MI.\nMissouri Botanical Garden (research and educational programs only)\nNatural Science Foundation, Philadelphia, PA.\nNew York Zoological Society.\nPaderewski Foundation, Inc.\nPeabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University.\nPeople to People Health Foundation, Inc., The (only in relationship to the scientific research activities that will be carried on abroad by the medical staff of the SS “Hope”).\nPierce College (in relationship to research by an instructor, Department of Psychology), Athens, Greece.\nPopulation Council, The, New York, NY.\nRadio Liberty Committee, Inc. (formerly American Committee for Liberation, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc.).\nRockefeller Foundation.\nRutgers University, the State University of New Jersey\nSchool of International Relations of the University of Southern California.\nSIRIMAR (Societa Internazionale Recerche Marine) Division, Office of the Vice President for Research, Pennsylvania State University.\nSocial Science Research Council.\nSolar Energy Research Institute (SERI).\nStanford Electronic Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.\nStanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, CA.\nStanford University (the George Vanderbilt Foundation), Stanford, CA.\nSyracuse University.\nTulane University Graduate School.\nTulane University Medical School.\nUniversity of Alabama.\nUniversity of Alabama Medical Center.\nUniversity of Chicago (as a participant in the International Cooperation Administration Program No. W-74 only).\nUniversity of Colorado (Department of History), Boulder, CO.\nUniversity of Connecticut, College of Liberal Arts and Science (Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages).\nUniversity of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI.\nUniversity of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign, Austria-Illinois Exchange Program.\nUniversity of Kansas, Office of International Programs.\nUniversity of La Verne (La Verne College of Athens)\nUniversity of Michigan (School of Natural Resources), Ann Arbor, MI.\nUniversity of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology (in relationship to research project abroad).\nUniversity of Nebraska Mission in Columbia, South America.\nUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\nUniversity of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.\nUniversity of Puerto Rico.\nUniversity of Washington (Department of Marketing, Transportation, and International Business) and (The School of Public Health and Community Medicine), Seattle, WA.\nWayne State University, Detroit, MI.\nWenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.\nWilliams College, Economic Department, Williamstown, MA.\n(b) Public international organizations of which the United States is a member by treaty or statute. The following-listed organizations have been determined to be public international organizations of which the United States is a member by treaty or statute:\nThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization.\nUnited Nations and all agencies and organizations which are a part thereof.\n(c) International Organizations Immunities Act designations. The following public international organizations are entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for in the International Organizations Immunities Act, and are considered as public international organizations of which the United States is a member by treaty or statute within the meaning of section 316(b) of the Act and as public international organizations in which the United States participates by treaty or statute within the meaning of section 319(b) of the Act:\nAfrican Development Bank (E.O. 12403, Feb. 8, 1983).\nAfrican Development Fund (E.O. 11977, Mar. 14, 1977).\nAsian Development Bank (E.O. 11334, Mar. 7, 1967).\nCaribbean Organization (E.O. 10983, Dec. 30, 1961).\nCriminal Police Organization (E.O. 12425, June 16, 1983).\nCustoms Cooperation Council (E.O. 11596, June 5, 1971).\nEuropean Space Research Organization (ESRO) (E.O. 11760, Jan. 17, 1974).\nFood and Agriculture Organization, The (E.O. 9698, Feb 19, 1946).\nGreat Lakes Fishery Commission (E.O. 11059, Oct. 23, 1962).\nInter-American Defense Board (E.O. 10228, Mar. 26, 1951).\nInter-American Development Bank (E.O. 10873, Apr. 8, 1960).\nInter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (E.O. 9751, July 11, 1946).\nInter-American Statistical Institute (E.O. 9751, July 11, 1946).\nInter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (E.O. 11059, Oct. 23, 1962).\nIntergovernmental Committee for European Migration (formerly the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe) (E.O. 10335, Mar. 28, 1952).\nIntergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (E.O. 10795, Dec. 13, 1958).\nInternational Atomic Energy Agency (E.O. 10727, Aug. 31, 1957).\nInternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development (E.O. 9751, July 11, 1946).\nInternational Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (E.O. 11966, Jan. 19, 1977).\nInternational Civil Aviation Organization (E.O. 9863, May 31, 1947).\nInternational Coffee Organization (E.O. 11225, May 22, 1965).\nInternational Cotton Advisory Committee (E.O. 9911, Dec. 19, 1947).\nInternational Development Association (E.O. 11966, Jan. 19, 1977).\nInternational Fertilizer Development Center (E.O. 11977, Mar. 14, 1977).\nInternational Finance Corporation (E.O. 10680, Oct. 2, 1956).\nInternational Food Policy Research Institute (E.O. 12359, Apr. 22, 1982).\nInternational Hydrographic Bureau (E.O. 10769, May 29, 1958).\nInternational Institute for Cotton (E.O. 11283, May 27, 1966).\nInternational Joint Commission—United States and Canada (E.O. 9972, June 25, 1948).\nInternational Labor Organization, The (functions through staff known as The International Labor Office) (E.O. 9698, Feb. 19, 1946).\nInternational Maritime Satellite Organization (E.O. 12238, Sept. 12, 1980).\nInternational Monetary Fund (E.O. 9751, July 11, 1946).\nInternational Pacific Halibut Commission (E.O. 11059, Oct. 23, 1962).\nInternational Secretariat for Volunteer Service (E.O. 11363, July 20, 1967).\nInternational Telecommunication Union (E.O. 9863, May 31, 1947).\nInternational Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) (E.O. 11718, May 14, 1973).\nInternational Wheat Advisory Committee (E.O. 9823, Jan. 24, 1947).\nMultinational Force and Observers (E.O. 12359, Apr. 22, 1982).\nOrganization for European Economic Cooperation (E.O. 10133, June 27, 1950) (Now known as Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; 28 FR 2959, Mar. 26, 1963).\nOrganization of African Unity (OAU) (E.O. 11767, Feb. 19, 1974).\nOrganization of American States (includes Pan American Union) (E.O. 10533, June 3, 1954).\nPan American Health Organization (includes Pan American Sanitary Bureau) (E.O. 10864, Feb. 18, 1960).\nPreparatory Commission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (E.O. 10727, Aug. 31, 1957).\nPreparatory Commission for the International Refugee Organization and its successor, the International Refugee Organization (E.O. 9887, Aug. 22, 1947).\nSouth Pacific Commission (E.O. 10086, Nov. 25, 1949).\nUnited International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI) (E.O. 11484, Sept. 29, 1969).\nUnited Nations, The (E.O. 9698, Feb. 19, 1946).\nUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organizations (E.O. 9863, May 31, 1947).\nUniversal Postal Union (E.O. 10727, Aug. 31, 1957).\nWorld Health Organization (E.O. 10025, Dec. 30, 1948).\nWorld Intellectual Property Organization (E.O. 11866, June 18, 1975).\nWorld Meteorological Organization (E.O. 10676, Sept. 1, 1956).","path":["Title 8—Aliens and Nationality","CHAPTER I—DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER C—NATIONALITY REGULATIONS","PART 316—GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NATURALIZATION"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-8.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:01Z","sha256":"f0c93b56be8d89ed32f21eaf8314e5bd6fbada5259ee7a0ce92bb874547423ef","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/8-cfr-316.15-316.19","next":"us/8-cfr-318.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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