---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 277"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "277"
heading: "Report on responding to fluctuating needs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/277"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part E — Citizenship and Immigration Services"
---

# §277. Report on responding to fluctuating needs


Not later than 30 days after November 25, 2002, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report on changes in law, including changes in authorizations of appropriations and in appropriations, that are needed to permit the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and, after the transfer of [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) specified in this part takes effect, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), to ensure a prompt and timely response to emergent, unforeseen, or impending changes in the number of applications for immigration benefits, and otherwise to ensure the accommodation of changing immigration service needs.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 460, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2201.)