There are carve-outs. They're just pretty general so human judgement can be applied to the odd edge cases - "at the discretion of the Secretary of State" sort o

There are carve-outs. They're just pretty general so human judgement can be applied to the odd edge cases - "at the discretion of the Secretary of State" sort of things. Random example: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/101.8 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/101.8