Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 09, 2026

Title 22 - Foreign Relations last revised: Dec 09, 2026
§ 17.6 - Ordinary and necessary living expenses.

An individual's ordinary and necessary living expenses include rent, mortgage payments, utilities, maintenance, food, clothing, insurance (life, health and accident), taxes, installment payments, medical expenses, support expenses when the individual is legally responsible, and other miscellaneous expenses which the individual can establish as being ordinary and necessary.

source: 71 FR 16229, Mar. 31, 2006, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 22 CFR 17.6