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Bill· HRH.R. 654 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Immigration Services Consumer Protection Act of 2001 - Establishes criminal penalties for immigration consultants who handle immigration matters and do not meet specified requirements, including license and contract requirements. Exempts from such provisions: (1) attorneys; (2) certain law students and law graduates; (3) accredited representatives of qualifying organizations; (4) accredited foreign officials; and (5) persons authorized to practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and Naturalization Service as of a certain date. Authorizes the Attorney General to provide State grants to educate persons respecting the requirements of this Act. Provides for confidentiality of information provided under this Act, and fines for knowing violation of such confidentiality.
Bill· HRH.R. 707 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
See summary of: H.R. 348
Bill· HRH.R. 690 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2001 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include permanent partners (as defined by this Act) within the scope of such Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 722 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Waives grounds for removal or deportation of, or denial of admission to, Desmond J. Burke by reason of any act of his that is a ground for removal or denial of admission and is reflected in the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Visa Office of the Department of State. Declares that such individual: (1) shall be considered a lawful permanent resident of the United States; but (2) shall not be eligible for naturalization for five years.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 35 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 2001
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should work with the Government of Mexico to advance bilateral cooperation and should seek to: (1) encourage economic growth and development; (2) strengthen cooperation between military and law enforcement entities to address common threats to security; (3) provide assistance in support of President Vicente Fox's plan to reform Mexico's judicial system and combat corruption and to strengthen democratic institutions; (4) develop a common strategy to address immigration and to fight the illicit drug trade; (5) encourage bilateral and multilateral environmental protection activities; (6) obtain the support of the Mexican Government to assist the Government of Colombia in achieving a peaceful political resolution to the conflict in Colombia; and (7) review the current illicit drug certification process and consider other evaluation mechanisms.
Bill· SS. 303 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 2001
Public Education Reinvestment, Reinvention, and Responsibility Act (Three R's Act) - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reauthorize and revise various ESEA programs. Revises and renames ESEA title I as Student Performance (currently Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards). Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) hold States, local educational agencies (LEAs), and schools accountable for increased student academic performance results; and (2) facilitate improved classroom instruction. Revises and reauthorizes title I: (1) part A, LEA basic program grants (I-A); (2) part B, Even Start; (3) part C, education of migratory children; (4) part D, prevention and intervention programs for youth who are neglected, delinquent, or at-risk of dropping out; (5) provisions for capital expenses; (6) part E, Federal evaluations, demonstrations, and transition projects, including a new comprehensive school reform grants program; and (7) a part F, rural education development initiative. Revises I-A with respect to: (1) State educational agency (SEA) and LEA reservations of funds; (2) formulas for distributing funds to schools with the highest concentrations of poverty; (3) State and LEA plans; (4) priorities in providing school support and improvement assistance; (5) parental involvement; (6) qualifications of teachers and paraprofessionals in I-A schools; (7) professional development; (8) LEA and Head Start services coordination; (9) reservation, allocation, and use of funds for basic, concentration, and targeted grants; and (10) school-wide programs. Penalizes States for failing to meet statutory deadlines for demonstrating that they have in place standards, assessments, a system for measuring and monitoring adequate yearly progress (AYP), and a statewide system for holding schools and LEAs accountable for making AYP with specified groups of students. Requires public school choice to be provided to families of students attending I-A schools deemed to be in need of corrective action. Requires LEAs to use I-A funds only to provide academic instruction and services directly related to instruction to students in preschool through grade 12 to assist eligible children to improve their academic achievement and to meet State achievement standards. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make education finance program grants to States. Revises and renames ESEA title II as Teacher and Principal Quality, Professional Development, and Class Size (currently Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program), with grants programs for: (1) Teacher and Principal Quality, Professional Development (II-A); and (2) Class Size Reduction (II-B). Establishes a new ESEA title III, Language Minority Students and Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States, subject to specified requirements, to help limited English proficient (LEP) students become proficient in English. Repeals the current ESEA title III, Technology for Education, including parts: (1) A, Technology for Education of All Students; (2) B, Star Schools Program; (3) C, Ready-to-Learn Television; (4) D, Telecommunications Demonstration Project for Mathematics; and (5) E, Elementary Mathematics and Science Equipment Program. Eliminates the Foreign Language Assistance Program. Reauthorizes the Emergency Immigration Education Program and Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native Education. Establishes a new ESEA title IV, Public School Choice program. Reauthorizes and redesignates certain parts of the current title IV, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities, under such new title IV. Reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) Magnet Schools Assistance; and (2) Public Charter Schools. Requires SEAs to hold assisted charter schools accountable for AYP in improving student performance. Declares it to be U.S. policy to: (1) support and stimulate improved public school performance through increased public school competition and increased Federal financial assistance; and (2) provide parents with more choices among public school options. Establishes a new title IV part C, Development of Public School Choice Programs, providing for competitive development grants. Sets forth a new title IV part D, Report Cards. Requires States to prepare and disseminate annual report cards on all elementary and secondary schools receiving funds under ESEA I-A or II-A. Reauthorizes and transfers ESEA Impact Aid provisions to a new title V (currently title VIII). Eliminates the current title V, Promoting Equity, including Women's Educational Equity, and Assistance to Address School Dropout Problems. Establishes a new title VI, High Performance and Quality Education Initiatives grants program (eliminating Innovative Education Program Strategies). Establishes a new ESEA title VII, Accountability, with sanctions and rewards based on meeting performance objectives. Directs the Secretary to make awards to States that ensure that all teachers teaching in their public schools are fully qualified or have exceeded certain student performance objectives, for distribution among high-performing LEAs for further distribution among high-performing schools, teachers, and principals. Repeals the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and the following ESEA titles: (1) V, Promoting Equity; (2) X, Programs of National Significance; (3) XI, Coordinated Services; (4) XII, School Facilities Infrastructure Improvement; and (5) XIII, Support and Assistive Programs to Improve Education.
Bill· HRH.R. 531 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 2001
Provides for the granting of temporary protected status (through country designation) to qualifying nationals of El Salvador present in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 544 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 2001
Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations relating to gender-based persecution, including female genital mutilation, for use in determining an alien's eligibility for asylum or withholding of deportation.
Bill· HRH.R. 505 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of 2001 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to adjust the status of certain unaccompanied aliens under 18 years old to permanent resident. Directs the Attorney General to provide for the establishment outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service of a panel of advisors to serve as guardians ad litem for such aliens in related INS proceedings.
Bill· HRH.R. 500 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2001
U.S. Employee, Family Unity, and Legalization Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the admission date for permanent residence for certain aliens, including additional one-year extensions during specified time periods. Establishes fines for application-related violations of confidentiality and false statements. Revises specified restrictions respecting: (1) cancellation of removal; (2) deportability and admissibility; and (3) issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children of lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens. Establishes a national task force on immigrant exploitation and trafficking, to be chaired by the Secretary of Labor and made up of Federal and State law enforcement officers.
Bill· HRH.R. 484 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2001
Declares James Mervyn Salmon eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 485 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2001
Declares Geert Botzen to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 407 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2001
Denial of Passports to Noncustodial Parents in Cases of Nonpayment of Child Support - Authorizes the Secretary of State to refuse, revoke, restrict, or limit a passport if the applicant or passport holder is a noncustodial parent who is the subject of an outstanding State arrest warrant for nonpayment of child support, where the amount in controversy is not less than $10,000.
Bill· SS. 226 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Northern Border States Council Act - Establishes the Northern Border States-Canada Trade Council, which shall: (1) advise the President, the Congress, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Secretary of Commerce, and other appropriate Federal and State officials with respect to the administration of U.S.-Canada trade policies, taxation of trade in goods and services, and customs and immigration matters; (2) monitor trade issues and disputes that involve one of the Council-member States and either the Canadian Government or one of Canada's provinces; and (3) make recommendations with respect to such disputes.
Bill· HRH.R. 348 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Central American and Haitian Adjustment Act of 1999 (sic) - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline. Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act. Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children. Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.
Bill· HRH.R. 393 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Declares Ashley Ross Fuller to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 357 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Liberian Refugee Immigration Protection Act of 2001 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain Liberian nationals who were granted, or are eligible to apply for, temporary protected status as of a specified date.
Bill· HRH.R. 329 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 2001
Nashville INS Suboffice Act - Authorizes appropriations to establish and operate an Immigration and Naturalization Service suboffice in Nashville, Tennessee. Sets forth the counties under such suboffice's jurisdiction.
Bill· SS. 204 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
Declares Benjamin M. Banfro to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of the required visa fees.
Bill· SS. 209 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
Declares Sung Jun Oh to be lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act upon payment of any necessary visa fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 280 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
National Language Act of 2001 - Makes English the official language of the U.S. Government. Requires the Government to conduct its official business in English, including publications, income tax forms, and informational materials. Provides that this Act shall not apply to the use of a language other than English for religious purposes, for training in foreign languages for international communication, to programs in schools designed to encourage students to learn foreign languages, or by persons over age 62. Repeals the Bilingual Education Act. Terminates the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the Department of Education. Repeals provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 regarding bilingual election requirements and regarding congressional findings of voting discrimination against language minorities, prohibition of English-only elections, and other remedial measures. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that all public ceremonies in which the oath of allegiance is administered pursuant to such Act be conducted solely in English. Specifies that this Act shall not preempt the law of any State.
Bill· HRH.R. 314 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
Declares Moise Marcel Sapriel to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 315 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 2001
Declares Imbeth Belay eligible for an immigrant visa or adjustment to permanent resident status under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· SS. 191 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 2001
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2001- Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of specified offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Federal criminal code (the code), the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes, including for murder relating to the smuggling of aliens, murder during a hostage-taking, and certain non-homicide-related offenses (espionage and treason). Repeals code procedures relating to imposition of the death sentence. Prohibits sentencing to death or putting to death any person for any violation of Federal law. Directs that any person sentenced to death before the date of this Act's enactment for any such violation serve a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Bill· SS. 169 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 2001
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II and Local Medical Emergency Reimbursement Act - State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II Act of 2001 - Amends the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 to provide for the reimbursement of States for indirect costs of incarcerating illegal aliens. Defines such costs as: (1) court costs, county attorney costs, and non-trial criminal proceedings; (2) indigent defense; and (3) unsupervised probation costs. Provides for the reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating juvenile aliens. Provides that reimbursement of States for incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals shall be allocated to give special consideration for any State that: (1) shares a border with Mexico or Canada; or (2) has a large number of undocumented aliens. Authorizes appropriations for allotments to States to be paid to local governments, hospitals, and other providers for emergency health services provided to undocumented aliens. Provides special consideration for providers: (1) in a border county with Mexico or Canada; or (2) in an area with a large number of undocumented aliens.
Bill· SS. 151 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 2001
Declares Ashley Ross Fuller to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· SS. 121 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 2001
Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2001 - Establishes within the Department of Justice (DOJ) the Office of Children's Services which shall be responsible for coordinating and implementing law and policy for unaccompanied alien children. Establishes an Interagency Task Force on Unaccompanied Alien Children. States that an unaccompanied alien child found in the United States shall be promptly paroled into the United States and placed under the jurisdiction of the Office. Sets forth a family reunification preference order. Prohibits, with an exception for violent children, detention in adult or delinquent children facilities. Directs the Office to develop procedures for prohibited detention practices. Prohibits an unaccompanied alien child from being repatriated to a country unless an appropriate voluntary agency has conducted an assessment of the country conditions and the Office has conducted an assessment of the suitability of the placement of the child. Directs the Office to provide that each unaccompanied child have counsel and guardian ad litem. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a special immigrant juvenile visa (J Visa). Expresses congressional commendation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service' s issuance of its "Guidelines for Children's Asylum Claims." Directs the Attorney General to provide immigration officers with related training. Amends the Act to exempt unaccompanied alien children from certain removal and asylum filing provisions. Directs the Comptroller General to report respecting the Office's effectiveness.
Bill· SS. 56 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 2001
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include certain children born in the Philippines or Japan to U.S. fathers among those children given preferential immigration treatment.
Bill· HRH.R. 243 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 2001
Declares Akintomide Apara to be eligible for issuance of an immigrant visa or for adjustment of status to that of an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 242 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 2001
Declares Rigaud Moise, Cinette Dorlus Moise, Jean Rigaud Moise, and Phara Moise to be eligible for immigrant visas or adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident of the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 133 (107th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent immigrants from waiting longer for immigrant visas as a result of reclassification from family second preference to family first preference.
Bill· HRH.R. 171 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Fairness to Immigrant Veterans Act of 2001 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (transitional rules) to make certain aliens who are on active armed forces duty or honorably discharged veterans eligible for: (1) release from (criminal alien) detention; (2) cancellation of removal; and (3) judicial review of certain orders of removal.
Bill· HRH.R. 190 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Declares that Congress has determined that a person born in the United States to a mother who is not a U.S. citizen, national, or immigrant, and is eligible to become or is a citizen or national of a country of which either of his or her natural parents is a citizen or national, shall not be a U.S. citizen solely by reason of U.S. birth.
Bill· HRH.R. 87 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Keeping Families Together Act of 2001 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Act) to repeal the provision amending the definition of "aggravated felony," and restore provisions of law amended by such provision as if it had not been enacted, including residency-or status-related rights of an affected legal alien. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise detention of criminal alien provisions, effective as if included in the Act. Repeals, as if included in the Act: (1) certain provisions respecting termination of continuous presence or physical presence in the United States; and (2) the definition of "conviction." Authorizes the Attorney General to admit certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens returning to the United States who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation or removal, effective as of a specified date, as if certain sections of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 had not been enacted. Revises provisions respecting judicial review of removal orders. Requires the Attorney General to establish a post-proceeding removal relief process for affected aliens.
Bill· HRH.R. 22 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Provides that in any case in which an alien executes an Immigration and Naturalization Service notice of rights and request for disposition form admitting to illegal U.S. residence, giving up the right to a pre-departure hearing, and requesting a return without hearing, no departure shall be implemented: (1) unless the form was certified after legal consultation in the alien's native language or with an interpreter's assistance; or (2) until 72 hours after form certification.
Bill· HRH.R. 26 (107th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2001
Baseball Diplomacy Act - Waives certain foreign assistance and trade and travel prohibitions against Cuba under specified Federal law with regard to certain transactions, including: (1) Cuban nationals who enter the United States on visas to play organized professional baseball; and (2) the return of their baseball earnings to Cuba. Prohibits the President from denying visas to such nationals based upon authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act to restrict any entry of aliens or class of aliens that would be detrimental to the interests of the United States. Declares that this Act shall not be affected by the economic embargo requirements against Cuba under the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996.