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107 records in US in 1979

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Bill· HRH.R. 348 (96th)referred

A bill to amend the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to provide that labor organizations which provide employment referral services and other similar services to assist migrant workers in obtaining agricultural employment shall be considered to be farm labor contractors for purposes of such Act.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979

Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to designate as a "farm labor contractor" any labor organization which establishes and maintains an employment referral procedure or service which refers, furnishes, assigns, or recruits migrant workers for agricultural employment.

Bill· HRH.R. 326 (96th)referred

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to facilitate the admission of aliens for temporary employment.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude from the definition of the term "immigrant" those persons entering the United States for a period of not more than one year to perform temporary services or labor if the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Attorney General that there are not sufficient workers available at the aliens' destination who are willing and able to perform such services or labor. Directs the Secretary to refer to employers who request such certification, workers in the number desired, able and qualified, and who agree to present themselves to commence employment on the date and for the period specified. Authorizes the Attorney General, upon receipt of such certification by the Secretary, to extend the terms of an alien's admission for periods not exceeding one year in the aggregate.

Bill· HRH.R. 287 (96th)referred

A bill to carry out the principles of the Helsinki Final Act pertaining to freedom of travel and emigration, by providing that aliens who are associated with certain political organizations or who advocate certain political beliefs shall not be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States, or deported from the United States, because of such association or beliefs.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate from the classes of excludable and deportable aliens those aliens who: (1) are anarchists; (2) are opposed to organized government; or (3) are members or advocates of the Communist or a totalitarian party. Amends the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 to remove the prohibition against the application by a member of a Communist organization for a U.S. passport, and the issuance of a passport to such a member.

Bill· HRH.R. 110 (96th)referred

A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that supplemental security income benefits shall be payable to a resident alien only if he has continuously resided in the United States for at least five years.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979

Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to make benefits under such title payable to a resident alien only if such alien has continuously resided in the United States for at least five years.

Bill· HRH.R. 107 (96th)referred

A bill to make additional immigrant visas available for immigrants from certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979

Makes additional immigration visas available in the case of a foreign state from which the total number of immigrants admitted to the United States in any fiscal year after June 30, 1972, was less than three-fourths of the average annual number of visas made available to immigrants from such state during the ten-year period beginning July 1, 1955. Limits to 7,500 the total number of visas to be made available in the case of any one foreign state. Specifies the percent of additional visas to be allocated to the categories of preference and nonpreference priorities set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Stipulates that the provision of such Act which prohibits the admittance of aliens seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor shall not apply in the determination of an immigrant's eligibility to receive an additional visa as authorized by this Act. Limits the application of the provisions of this Act to four years. Stipulates that nothing in this Act modifies or affects the authority of the Attorney General in the administration of any law relating to immigration, nationality, or naturalization.

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