REGIONAL OFFICES

Domain	Definition
Immigration	The three INS Regional Offices that supervise the work of INS Districts and Border Patrol Sectors. The Regional Directors report to the Executive Associate Commissioner for Field Operations in INS Headquarters, Washington, DC. The three Regional Offices are located in (Eastern Region) Burlington, VT, (Central Region) Dallas, TX, and (Western Region) Laguna Nigel, CA. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: REGIONAL OFFICES

Specialty definitions using "REGIONAL OFFICES": Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument ♦ CASC ♦ EASC, Environmental Response Team ♦ Field Division ♦ MASC, Master Address File Geocoding Office Resolution ♦ Targeted Map Update ♦ WASC. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Timely, voluntary reporting of V. vulnificus infections to CDC and to regional offices of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will help collaborative efforts to improve investigation of these infections. (references)
Business		In the RFE, Gosstandart operates through its regional offices. (references)
		The central point for information on such project is the U.S. Department of Commerce via its regional offices throughout the world. (references)
		These products tend to be marketed through appointed local agents reporting to regional offices in either South Africa or the Middle East, as opposed to their respective head offices. (references)
Economic History	Colombia	Bogota will remain as the headquarters, and Medell�n and Cali as regional offices of the Colombian market. (references)
	Bahrain	Exceptions are made for factories manufacturing in Bahrain and for regional offices established in Bahrain, enabling these firms to sell locally. (references)
	Cape Verde	Other business forms include regional offices, sole proprietorships, local agency or distributorship arrangements, and state or partially state-owned companies. (references)
Human Rights	Pakistan	Some 125 employees staff the department, which is headquartered in Islamabad and has four regional offices. (references)
	Poland	The prosecutorial system mirrors the court structure with national, provincial, appellate, and regional offices. (references)
	Uganda	The Uganda Law Society operates legal aid clinics in four regional offices, although its services remain limited due to funding. (references)
Political Economy	SPAIN	Importers apply for import licenses at the Spanish general register of Spain's secretariat of commerce or any of its regional offices. (references)
	Philippines	Approximately one-third of the country's 42,000 "barangays" (neighborhoods) have Human Rights Action Centers, which coordinate with CHR regional offices. (references)
Political Rights	Azerbaijan	In July the Ministry of Economic Development forced the opposition Azerbaijan National Independence Party to vacate its headquarters in Baku, and local authorities later forced the party out of seven regional offices. (references)
Trade	Georgia	The fund opened regional offices in Tbilisi and Baku in 1999. (references)
	Cote D'ivoire	The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation also maintain regional offices. (references)
	Argentina	EXIM has five regional offices in New York, NY; Miami, FL; Houston, TX; Chicago, IL; or Long Beach, CA. (references)
Worker Rights	Mali	IPEC relied on labor inspectors appointed by the Government in Bamako and in regional offices in the country. (references)
	Brazil	SETIF is coordinated by the MLE's Secretariat for Labor Inspection, and it is operated out of four regional offices. (references)
	Brazil	Through a network of local churches and regional offices, the CPT has tracked instances of forced labor for over 15 years. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-f-g-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s"
	-3 letters: craniologies, efflorescing.
	-4 letters: consigliere, foreclosing, legionaries, necrologies, officialese.
	-5 letters: aerologies, arecolines, areologies, creolising, falconries, florigenic, focalising, gerfalcons, officering, recoinages, seignorial.
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