OPERATIONS INSTRUCTIONS - Gani

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(d) Signatures on Service-issued documents.
The Commissioner's rubber-stamp facsimile signature shall be placed on granted certificates of citizenship
8 CFR 341, certificates of naturalization or repatriation 8 CFR 343, new naturalization and citizenship papers
8 CFR 343a, and special certificates of naturalization 8 CFR 343b,
Other Service-issued documents requiring signatures shall bear the signature or rubber-stamp facsimile
signature of the issuing officer.
(e) Signature required of persons of Chinese race.
Every person of the Chinese race, regardless of whether he is a Chinese national or not, whose name has
been anglicized from the Chinese, who makes any application to the Service or is the subject of investigation
by the Service, shall be requested to include the proper Chinese characters of his name in addition to his
usual anglicized signature. The Chinese characters submitted shall be checked against those in his
passport. If the characters do not coincide, the person shall be requested to explain the dissimilarity and to
submit another specimen of his name in characters matching the name as written in his passport. The proper
Chinese characters and the signature shall be placed on any application and on For G-138, Signature
Specimen Form, in triplicate. If a person of the Chinese race is unable to sign the Chinese characters
denoting his name and qualified personnel of the Service are not available to do so in his behalf, he shall be
requested to have the proper Chinese characters of his name furnished by another person who is competent
to write Chinese, provided that the circumstances allow this course of action to be pursued.
(f) Deficiencies.
Form I-72 or N-14, as appropriate, shall be used when necessary to return a deficient application or
petition to an applicant or petitioner.
(g) Inspection of classified, confidentially-furnished, or other information.
When a denial decision may be based on classified derogatory information, consideration shall be given to
requesting the original classifying authority to review the information to advise whether it may be
declassified. When the file contains unclassified confidentially-furnished information which would be
important to the decision if it were useable, consideration shall be given to requesting the individual or
agency which provided that information to advise whether the information must still be regarded as
confidentially furnished; if such individual or agency insists that the information be so regarded, the
information shall not be included in the record of proceeding and shall not be used as a basis for denial in the
exercise of discretion. Classified information may be used as a basis for denial in the exercise of discretion
only when specifically authorized by law or regulation (for example, see 8 CFR 103.2(b)(2) and 242.17. When
the use of classified information is so authorized, such information shall not be made available for inspection
by the applicant, petitioner, or his representative; such information shall maintained separately from the rest
of the record of proceeding, in accordance with AM 2710.02 et seq. Under no circumstances shall classified
or confidentially-furnished information be shown to an applicant or petitioner, or to his representative.
(Revised)
Unless information or evidence is classified, an applicant or petitioner must be advised, before a decision
is rendered, of any derogatory information or evidence of which he is unaware and which is being considered
as a basis for denial; and he must be given an opportunity to rebut such information or evidence and present
evidence in his own behalf before the decision is made. When it is not feasible for the applicant or petitioner
to come to a Service Office to inspect derogatory information or evidence on the basis of which an adverse
decision is contemplated, he shall be advised of the nature of such evidence, and shall similarly be afforded
an opportunity to rebut and present evidence in his own behalf. (Revised)
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(h) Affidavits of support.
Form I-134 may be used to support a Service application if an affidavit of support would be helpful in
resolving any public charge aspect of the case. Relatives and sponsors of visa applicants abroad who
inquire at a Service office concerning the submission of affidavits of support in behalf of such applicants
shall not be referred to anyone outside the Service; instead, Forms I-134 shall be furnished them. They shall
be advised, however, that the Forms I-134 are furnished solely as a guide as to items generally required in
affidavits of support (see notes to 22 CFR 41.91(a)(15) and 42.91(a)(15) in Volume 9--Visas, Foreign Affairs
Manual). Forms I-134 are to be made available only for use in individual cases and are not to be distributed