---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 611a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "611a"
heading: "State required to provide certain information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/611a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services"
  - "Part A — Block Grants to States for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families"
---

# §611a. State required to provide certain information


Each [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) to which a [grant](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) is made under [section 603 of this title](/usc/42/603.md) shall, at least 4 times annually and upon request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, furnish the Immigration and Naturalization Service with the name and address of, and other identifying information on, any individual who the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) knows is unlawfully in the [United States](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-2).


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 411A, as added Pub. L. 104–193, title IV, § 404(b), Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2267.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.