---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 237"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "237"
heading: "Information on visa denials required to be entered into electronic data system"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/237"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part C — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §237. Information on visa denials required to be entered into electronic data system

- (a) **In general—** Whenever a consular officer of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) denies a visa to an applicant, the consular officer shall enter the fact and the basis of the denial and the name of the applicant into the [interoperable](/usc/6/311.md?p=6) electronic data system implemented under [section 1722(a) of title 8](/usc/8/1722.md?p=a).
- (b) **Prohibition—** In the case of any alien with respect to whom a visa has been denied under [subsection (a)](#a)—
  - (1) no subsequent visa may be issued to the alien unless the consular officer considering the alien’s visa application has reviewed the information concerning the alien placed in the [interoperable](/usc/6/311.md?p=6) electronic data system, has indicated on the alien’s application that the information has been reviewed, and has stated for the record why the visa is being issued or a waiver of visa ineligibility recommended in spite of that information; and
  - (2) the alien may not be admitted to the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) without a visa issued in accordance with the procedures described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 429, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2191.)