United States Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs
Applies the rulePublishes the list of countries whose nationals may be accorded E-1 treaty trader and E-2 treaty investor classification, with the effective date for each.
The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.
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It must not be cited for the text or the terms of any treaty, which it does not reproduce, nor for whether a particular applicant qualifies, which is a consular decision under the Foreign Affairs Manual and 22 CFR 41.51. The list is the Department's determination of which treaties qualify and it changes without amendment to any treaty. Its page is heavy with client-side furniture that survives capture as noise, so a quotation should be taken from the table rows rather than from the surrounding prose.
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