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GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office

Maintains the text in force

The Government Publishing Office's authenticated repository. The United States Code is published here edition by edition, one HTML file per section, at an address that names the edition year - and a link service resolves a title and section number to the current edition's file.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

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Cannot be cited for

An edition is a snapshot: the 2024 edition states the law as of a date in 2024 and says nothing about amendments made since. The Code is itself a compilation of acts, and for titles not enacted into positive law the Statutes at Large govern where the two differ. Nothing here carries the regulations, which are in the Code of Federal Regulations, or the annual notices that fill in the numbers these sections leave open.

Re-check every

90 days

Publication rhythm

A new edition of each title is published annually, with supplements between.

Re-check triggers

a new edition of title 8 · an amendment to the per-country limits in 8 U.S.C. 1152 · a change to the visa waiver programme in 8 U.S.C. 1187

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