---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 C.F.R. § 103.38"
title: "8"
number: "103.38"
heading: "Genealogy Program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/8/103.38"
---

# §103.38. Genealogy Program.

- (a) **Purpose.** The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Genealogy Program is a fee-for-service program designed to provide genealogical and historical records and reference services to genealogists, historians, and others seeking documents maintained within the historical record systems.
- (b) **Scope and limitations.** [Sections 103.38 through 103.41](/cfr/8/103.38..103.41.md) comprise the regulations of the Genealogy Program. These regulations apply only to searches for and retrieval of records from the file series described as historical records in [8 CFR 103.39](/cfr/8/103.39.md). These regulations set forth the procedures by which individuals may request searches for historical records and, if responsive records are located, obtain copies of those records.

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 28030, May 15, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552, 552a; 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1103, 1184, 1185 note, 1304, 1356, 1365b, 1372, 1801-1815; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 48 U.S.C. 1806; Pub. L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135 (6 U.S.C. 1 et seq. ); E.O. 12356, 47 FR 14874, 15557, 3 CFR, 1982 Comp., p. 166; 8 CFR part 2; Pub. L. 112-45, 125 Stat. 550; 31 CFR part 223.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 44481, Sept. 26, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 28030, May 15, 2008]