---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 295"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "295"
heading: "Director of Shared Services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/295"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part F — General Immigration Provisions"
---

# §295. Director of Shared Services

- (a) **In general—** Within the Office of Deputy [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), there shall be a [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of Shared Services.
- (b) **Functions—** The [Director](/usc/6/677a.md?p=3) of Shared Services shall be responsible for the coordination of resources for the Bureau of Border Security and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, including—
  - (1) information resources management, including computer databases and information technology;
  - (2) records and file management; and
  - (3) forms management.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 475, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2209.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (b), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. Mar. 1, 2003, H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.