---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1182f"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1182f"
heading: "Denial of entry into United States of Chinese and other nationals engaged in coerced organ or bodily tissue transplantation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1182f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter II — Immigration"
  - "Part II — Admission Qualifications for Aliens; Travel Control of Citizens and Aliens"
---

# §1182f. Denial of entry into United States of Chinese and other nationals engaged in coerced organ or bodily tissue transplantation

- (a) **Denial of entry—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), the Secretary shall direct [consular officers](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-9) not to issue a visa to any [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) whom the Secretary finds, based on credible and specific information, to have been directly involved with the coercive transplantation of human organs or bodily tissue, unless the Secretary has [substantial](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-45) grounds for believing that the foreign [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) has discontinued his or her involvement with, and support for, such practices.
- (b) **Exception—** The prohibitions in [subsection (a)](#a) do not apply to an applicant who is a head of [state](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36), head of government, or cabinet-level minister.
- (c) **Waiver—** The Secretary may waive the prohibitions in [subsection (a)](#a) with respect to a foreign [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) if the Secretary—
  - (1) determines that it is important to the [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) interest of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) to do so; and
  - (2) not later than 30 days after the issuance of a visa, provides written notification to the appropriate congressional committees containing a justification for the waiver.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–228, div. A, title II, § 232, Sept. 30, 2002, 116 Stat. 1372.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, and also as part of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

For definitions of “Secretary” and “appropriate congressional committees” as used in this section, see section 3 of Pub. L. 107–228, set out as a note under section 2651 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.