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Extension of Compliance Date To Designate a U.S. Agent for Service for Individuals With Foreign Addresses Who Apply for Certain Certificates, Ratings, or Authorizations
The Federal Aviation Administration published this final rule in the Federal Register on January 3, 2025. It took effect on January 3, 2025.
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What the agency says
On October 8, 2024, the FAA published a final rule that will require individuals with foreign addresses and no U.S. physical address on file with the FAA who apply for certain certificates, ratings, or authorizations to designate a U.S. agent for service. This final rule extends the deadline for those individuals to designate a U.S. agent for service from January 6, 2025, to April 2, 2025. This final rule does not apply to individuals with foreign addresses who currently hold certain certificates, ratings, or authorizations, as the compliance date for those individuals continues to be July 7, 2025.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-31555
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; delay of effective date
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration
- Published
- January 3, 2025
- Takes effect
- January 3, 2025
- Dates
- Effective date: As of January 3, 2025, the effective date of amendatory 3 in the final rule published on October 8, 2024 (89 FR 81305), is delayed from January 6, 2025, to April 2, 2025. This final rule is effective January 3, 2025, except for amendatory instruction 3 which is effective April 2, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. FAA-2023-1194; Amt. 3-3A
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2120-AL85
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 14 CFR 3
- Topics
- Aircraft; Aviation safety
- Pages
- 3
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