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INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICATION FOR APPEARANCE

1 One original application should be completed in typewritten or printed form by each applicant for appearance and mailed to Visa Division, Department of State, Washington, D.C. In new cases this form should be transmitted with the BC forms.

2 An Application for appearance may be filled only by an individual.

3 Any of the following individuals may file an application for appearance:

(a) An alien already in the United States on his own behalf.
 
(b) A sponsor, agent, or other intermediary; of an alien in the United States or abroad: Provided, That if such sponsor, agent, or other intermediary, is abroad he may file an application for appearance only if he is a citizen of the United States.

(c) An attorney at law for any one of the persons referred to in 3(a) and 3(b) above. An attorney shall add the name of place of any court of record before which he has been admitted to practice and shall also state whether he has ever been disbarred by any court or denied the right to appear before any governmental agency.

4 The statement as to compensation must be filled in by any person receiving compensation or remuneration.

5 If a person whose name appears on the application for appearance is a married woman, her given name (not the given name of her husband) shall be used, preceded by "Mrs."

6 Rule 23 of the Review Committe provides: "When an applicant for appearance fails to appear at the time set for the hearing of any case, the Review Committe my proceed to consider the case without his testimony or, if he is the only applicant for appearance in such case, without a hearing".

NOTE: An attorney of record, sponsor, agent or other intermediary who is presenting an application for appearance before the Review Committee shall attach to such application appropriately modified BC forms in six copies and application for appearance forms on all witnesses he intends to introduce at the hearing. These forms may be obtained upon request at the Visa Division, Department of State.

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