Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 20A. REGULATION OF PRIVATE IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE SERVICES
43-20A-5. Permissible services; terms of contract for immigration services.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
An immigration assistance provider licensee may perform the following services as immigration assistance:#
- (1)
Completing a government agency form on behalf of the client and appropriate to the client’s needs;#
- (2)
Transcribing responses to a government agency form which is related to an immigration matter; provided, however, that advice shall not be offered to a client as to his or her answers on such forms;#
- (3)
Translating information on forms to a client and translating the client’s answers to questions posed on such forms;#
- (4)
Securing for the client supporting documents currently in existence, such as birth and marriage certificates, which may be needed to be submitted with government agency forms;#
- (5)
Notarizing signatures on government agency forms, provided that the person performing the service is a notary public commissioned in the State of Georgia and is lawfully present in the United States;#
- (6)
Preparing or arranging for the preparation of photographs and fingerprints;#
- (7)
Arranging for the performance of medical testing (including X-rays and AIDS tests) and the obtaining of reports of such test results; and#
- (8)
Performing such other services that the Secretary of State determines by rule may be appropriately performed by such licensees in light of the purposes of this chapter.#
- (b)
A contract to provide any service in conjunction with immigration assistance shall clearly state the obligations of the immigration assistance provider and the client who is to receive such service.#
Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.
History
Code 1981, § 43-20A-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1112, § 15/HB 1055.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t43-ch1-32-(v30)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V30, 2022 edition, pages 691 to 692; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0e619b1f34e2.
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