Criminal Defense of Immigrants

(B)  18 U.S.C. § 2250. Section 2250 of Title 18, United States Code, is a federal offense that penalizes anyone who fails to register as a sex offender anywhere within the United States.  It requires persons who meet federal court jurisdictional requirements, and who have been convicted in any jurisdiction of any of a large number of sex offenses (or, it appears, of additional offenses such as false imprisonment) including many involving minors, to register in the jurisdictions of their conviction, incarceration, residence, or school within three business days after sentence or prior to release from custody, and within three days of changing address.