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United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Provides that under the Immigration and Nationality Act a person shall be deemed literate for the purpose of being naturalized as a citizen of the United States if he has the ability to read, write and speak words in ordinary usage in the language in which he is most literate. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1423)
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1973
Requires that any private bill relating to immigration or naturalization be accompanied by a statement that the Member introducing such bill shall receive no compensation with respect to his introduction of such bill. (Amends rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives)
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1973
Increases from $6,000 to $15,000 the amount to be paid by the clerk of any naturalization court specified by this Act to the Attorney General out of fees collected by any such clerk in naturalization proceedings in any fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1973
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments - Defines "special immigrants" to include immediate relatives. Provides special immigrant status to aliens performing duties related to the religious activities of a religious denomination. Establishes a worldwide ceiling of 300,000 immigrants annually, exclusive of special immigrants, to become operative on July 1, 1976 who may be lawfully admitted to the United States. Extends the present 20,000 annual limitation on immigration from any one country in the Eastern Hemisphere to Western Hemisphere countries, with the exceptions that Canada and Mexico are given a maximum of 35,000 each. Provides that the preference system shall become operative on a worldwide basis simultaneously with the effective date of the world ceiling. States that in the interim the preference system shall operate separately in each hemisphere. Alters preference system category percentages: (1) the percentage of first preference (unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens) is changed from 20 to 10; (2) expands the second preference to include parents of permanent resident aliens and increases the percentage from 20 to 24; (3) increases the percentage of third preference (members of professions or persons of exceptional ability in the sciences and arts) from 10 to 12; (4) eliminates under the fifth preference (brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens) and decreases the percentage from 24 to 20; (5) increases the percentage of sixth preference (skilled and unskilled workers in short supply) from 10 to 12; and (6) increases the percentage of the seventh preference is from 6 to 12 and defines the term "alien refugee" as any alien who is outside the country of his nationality or who, not having a nationality, is outside the country of his habitual residence, and who is unable or unwilling to return to such country because of persecution or well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, or who has been uprooted by catastrophic natural calamity or military operations. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to parole into the country additional numbers of refugees in times of emergency, if he determines it to be in the public interest. Provides a permanent authority to adjust the status of refugee parolees to that of permanent residence. Sets forth the procedures for such action. Regulates the flow of employable commuter aliens from Canada and Mexico. Removes the renewal provision for re-entry permits, and extends their validity from one to three years. Provides for the naturalization of persons over 50 years who have been living in the United States for at least 10 years. Establishes a temporary program to facilitate the adjustment of status of certain nonimmigrant aliens in the Virgin Islands. Establishes a temporary program making additional immigrant visas available to specified countries disadvantaged in the transition from the national origins system to the first-come, first-served system, established by the Immigration Act of October 3, 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1973
Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a National Office for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers for the purpose of meeting more effectively the needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Directs the Secretary to appoint a special task force on migrant and seasonal farmworkers to conduct a continuing study and investigation of the needs and problems of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Transfers all functions, powers, and duties under Federal laws and programs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which relate to migrant and seasonal farmworkers to the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1973
Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a National Office for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers for the purpose of meeting more effectively the needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Directs the Secretary to appoint a special task force on migrant and seasonal farmworkers to conduct a continuing study and investigation of the needs and problems of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Transfers all functions, powers, and duties under Federal laws and programs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which relate to migrant and seasonal farmworkers to the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Provides that no person shall be a naturalized citizen of the United States on his own petition unless he demonstrates a simple understanding of the English language, including an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in the English language. States that these requirements shall not apply to any applicant who is otherwise qualified to be naturalized and who: (1) on the effective date of this Act, is over fifty years of age and has been living in the United States for twenty years; (2) upon filing his petition, is over fifty years of age and can demonstrate an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in his own language; (3) upon filing his petition, is over sixty years of age and has been living in the United States for twenty years; or (4) is physically unable to comply with the requirements of this Act. Provides that, except as otherwise provided, no person shall be naturalized as a citizen of the United States upon his own petition unless he demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the history and the principles and the form of government of the United States. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1423)
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Permits a person over 50 years old who has resided in the United States for 20 years and who can demonstrate an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in his own language to be exempted from the English literacy requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Allows such a person to demonstrate a knowledge of the fundamentals of history and the principles and forms of government of the United States in a language other than English. Waives the literacy requirement for those persons over the age of 60 years, who have resided in the United States for 20 years, who are illiterate, but who otherwise meet the qualifications for naturalization. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1143)
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Expands the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the deportation of aliens within the United States on the ground that they were excludable at the time of entry as aliens who have sought to procure, or have procured visas of other documentation, of entry into the United States by fraud or misrepresentation shall not apply to an alien otherwise admissible at the time of entry who is the parent of a United States citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Provides that parents of permanent residents be elibible to file for the second preference category, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Includes son and daughters within the provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to waiving the exclusion from the United States for fraud. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(i))
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Repeals the Bertillon System of Identification, used to identify persons entering the United States. (Repeals 8 U.S.C. 298)
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Includes son and daughters within the provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to waiving the exclusion from the United States for fraud. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(i))
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Provides for recording of admission for permanent residence in the case of specified aliens who entered the United States prior to October 3, 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Expands the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the deportation of aliens within the United States on the ground that they were excludable at the time of entry as aliens who have sought to procure, or have procured visas of other documentation, of entry into the United States by fraud or misrepresentation shall not apply to an alien otherwise admissible at the time of entry who is the parent of a United States citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that the ceiling on immigrants be raised from 45,000 to 75,000 in the first three quarters of any fiscal year and from 170,000 to 290,000 for the total for any fiscal year. Redefines "special immigrant" so that the term does not apply only to immigrants from the Western Hemisphere. Repeals the percentage system of admitting specified immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Expands the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the deportation of aliens within the United States on the ground that they were excludable at the time of entry as aliens who have sought to procure, or have procured visas of other documentation, of entry into the United States by fraud or misrepresentation shall not apply to an alien otherwise admissible at the time of entry who is the parent of a United States citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Permits a person over 50 years old who has resided in the United States for 20 years and who can demonstrate an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in his own language to be exempted from the English literacy requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Allows such a person to demonstrate a knowledge of the fundamentals of history and the principles and forms of government of the United States in a language other than English. Waives the literacy requirement for those persons over the age of 60 years, who have resided in the United States for 20 years, who are illiterate, but who otherwise meet the qualifications for naturalization. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1143)
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Provides for recording of admission for permanent residence in the case of specified aliens who entered the United States prior to October 3, 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Includes son and daughters within the provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to waiving the exclusion from the United States for fraud. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(i))
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Makes parents of permanent residents eligible, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, for second preference visas along with the now eligible spouses, and unmarried sons and daughters of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1153(a)(2)).
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Permits a person over 50 years old who has resided in the United States for 20 years and who can demonstrate an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in his own language to be exempted from the English literacy requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Allows such a person to demonstrate a knowledge of the fundamentals of history and the principles and forms of government of the United States in a language other than English. Waives the literacy requirement for those persons over the age of 60 years, who have resided in the United States for 20 years, who are illiterate, but who otherwise meet the qualifications for naturalization. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1143)
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that the ceiling on immigrants be raised from 45,000 to 75,000 in the first three quarters of any fiscal year and from 170,000 to 290,000 for the total for any fiscal year. Redefines "special immigrant" so that the term does not apply only to immigrants from the Western Hemisphere. Repeals the percentage system of admitting specified immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Repeals the Bertillon System of Identification, used to identify persons entering the United States. (Repeals 8 U.S.C. 298)
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Expands the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the deportation of aliens within the United States on the ground that they were excludable at the time of entry as aliens who have sought to procure, or have procured visas of other documentation, of entry into the United States by fraud or misrepresentation shall not apply to an alien otherwise admissible at the time of entry who is the parent of a United States citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Includes son and daughters within the provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to waiving the exclusion from the United States for fraud. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(i))
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Provides for recording of admission for permanent residence in the case of specified aliens who entered the United States prior to October 3, 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973
Prohibits revenue sharing with States or local agencies under Federal laws and programs designed to assist or serve migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973
Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a National Office for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers for the purpose of meeting more effectively the needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Directs the Secretary to appoint a special task force on migrant and seasonal farmworkers to conduct a continuing study and investigation of the needs and problems of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States. Transfers all functions, powers, and duties under Federal laws and programs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare which relate to migrant and seasonal farmworkers to the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973
Title I: Nonimmigrants - Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, for the issuance of nonimmigrant visas to aliens entering the United States to perform services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature under specific contracts of employment. Sets forth specified standards to be followed in entering into and renewing such contracts of employment. Provides that the status of an alien admitted to the United States under this Act shall terminate when the employment with the petitioning employer of such alien ends. Requires such employer to notify the Attorney General in writing, within three days after the alien ceases such employment, that the employment of such alien has ended. Directs said employer to provide notification of termination to the alien at his last known address not less than two weeks prior to the termination date. States that any employer who fails to furnish written notice to the Attorney General, as required by this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $200 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Title II: Immigrants - Requires an immigrant alien to maintain a permanent residence as a condition for entering and remaining as an immigrant of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Provides that upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for consideration of the bill (H.R. 981) to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes. Stipulates that after general debate, which shall be confined to the bill and shall continue not to exceed two hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, the bill shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. Makes it in order to consider the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule. Provides that, at the conclusion of such consideration, the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and any Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill or to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. Provides that the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1973
Title I: Nonimmigrants - Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, for the issuance of nonimmigrant visas to aliens entering the United States to perform services or labor of a temporary or seasonal nature under specific contracts of employment. Sets forth specified standards to be followed in entering into and renewing such contracts of employment. Provides that the status of an alien admitted to the United States under this Act shall terminate when the employment with the petitioning employer of such alien ends. Requires such employer to notify the Attorney General in writing, within three days after the alien ceases such employment, that the employment of such alien has ended. Directs said employer to provide notification of termination to the alien at his last known address not less than two weeks prior to the termination date. States that any employer who fails to furnish written notice to the Attorney General, as required by this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $200 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Title II: Immigrants - Requires an immigrant alien to maintain a permanent residence as a condition for entering and remaining as an immigrant of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1973
Increases to $200,000 (formerly $100,000) the amount authorized to be expended for any one project to provide facilities along the border for the enforcement of the customs and immigration laws. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 68)
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1973
Authorizes the issuance of 60,000 special immigrant visas only to Jewish citizens of Algeria, Irag, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Republic, and Yemen who are seeking to enter the United States to avoid persecution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Bestows United States citizenship upon Leif Ericson.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Transfers the functions of the Passport Office to a new agency of the Department of State to be known as the "United States Passport Service". Establishes a Passport Service Fund to finance the operations of the United States Passport Service. Authorizes an initial appropriation of $20,000,000 to capitalize such fund.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
New Americans Education and Employment Assistance Act - Establishes Federal programs of educational, employment, and other assistance to areas with heavy concentrations of foreign-born persons. Provides a method for establishing the entitlement of each State for Federal aid to the immigrant population. Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall make grants to each State on such terms as he shall establish. Provides further that the Secretary shall, in his discretion, make grants to cities with large immigrant populations. Designates such cities as "gateway cities". Prohibits any person from being denied food stamps because such person is an immigrant. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants of up to $250 to each immigrant seeking employment, and to each member of his family for the purpose of changing residence from any gateway city to any State other than that in which such gateway city is located.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Transfers the functions of the Passport Office to a new agency of the Department of State to be known as the "United States Passport Service". Establishes a Passport Service Fund to finance the operations of the United States Passport Service. Authorizes an initial appropriation of $20,000,000 to capitalize such fund.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1973
States that no person who has been convicted of a violation of, or a conspiracy to violate, any law or regulation relating to the illicit possession or traffic in dangerous narcotic drugs shall be found to be a person of good moral character for the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Provides for the repeal of the "cooly trade" laws (Repeals 8 U.S.C. 331-339)
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Permits a person over 50 years old who has resided in the United States for 20 years who can demonstrate an ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in his own language to be exempted from the English literacy requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Allows such a person to demonstrate a knowledge of the fundamentals of history and the principles and forms of Government of the United States in a language other than English. Waives the literacy requirement for those persons over the age of 60 years, who have resided in the United States for 20 years, who are illiterate, but who otherwise meet the qualifications for naturalization. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1143)
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that the ceiling on immigrants be raised from 45,000 to 75,000 in the first three quarters of any fiscal year and from 170,000 to 290,000 for the total for any fiscal year. Redefines "special immigrant" so that the term does not apply only to immigrants from the Western Hemisphere. Repeals the percentage system of admitting specified immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Expands the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the deportation of aliens within the United States on the ground that they were excludable at the time of entry as aliens who have sought to procure, or have procured, visas or other documentation, or entry into the United States by fraud or misrepresentation so that the provisions shall not apply to an alien otherwise admissible at the time of entry who is the son or daughter of a United States citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Repeals the Bertillon System of Identification, used to identify persons unlawfully entering the United States. (Repeals 8 U.S.C 298)
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Includes sons and daughters within the provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to waiving the exclusion from the United States for fraud. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182 (i))
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Provides for the recording of admission for permanent residence in the case of aliens who entered the United States prior to October 3, 1965.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Makes parents of permanent residents eligible under the Immigration and Nationality Act for second preference visas along with the now eligible spouses, and unmarried sons and daughters of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1153 (a) (2))
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973
Redefines special immigrant under the Immigration and Nationality Act as an immigrant who is the spouse or child of a citizen of the United States or is the parent of a citizen of the United States twenty-one years of age. Entitles the spouse and children of such an immigrant to special immigrant status derivatively if accompanying or following to join him. Provides that special immigrants shall be admitted without regard to the numerical limitations in the Act. Defines the term "refugee." Sets forth the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere allowed into the United States in any fiscal year at 42,000 in the first three quarters and 155,000 for the year; from the Western Hemisphere and Canal Zone at 19,000 in the first three quarters and 70,000 for the year; and from any single foreign state contiguous to the United States 9,500 for the first three quarters and 35,000 for the year. Provides that no person shall receive any perference in the issuance of an immigrant visa except as provided by statute. Specifies the number of visas to be granted in any fiscal year to various categories of immigrants and in what order. Provides that any citizen of the United States claiming that an alien is entitled to special immigrant status or to a preference status or any alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence claiming that an alien is entitled to a preference may file a petition with the Attorney General for such alien. Allocates 25,000 visa numbers to refugees. Provides that aliens seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor in occupations for which the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and to the Attorney General that: (1) there is not a shortage of qualified workers in the United States at the time of application for a visa, or (2) the employment of such aliens would be inconsistent with United States manpower policies and programs, shall be excluded. Provides that if the Secretary finds that it is in the national interest that refugees, as defined, be paroled into the United States, he may recommend to the Attorney General that such aliens be so paroled, and provides for means by which such refugees may apply for admission.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1973
Reduces to one year (previously two) the period of residence and physical presence required under the Immigration and Nationality Act for the naturalization of children adopted by United States citizens. (Amends 80.S.C. 1434 (a) (3), (b))
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1973
Makes additional immigrant visas available for immigrants from any foreign State which had less than three-fourths of the average annual number of visas under the quota system during the ten-fiscal-year period beginning July 1, 1955. Directs that the additional number of visas be equal to the difference between the number of visas made to them and three-fourths of the average made to other immigrants under the quota system, but limits the total number of visas to any foreign State to 7,500 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas. Provides that no alien shall be excused under the Act, nor have his status adjusted to that of a permanent resident, after the expiration of the four-fiscal year period beginning with the first fiscal year commencing on or after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides for the granting of special visas equal to 25 percent of the fourth preference registration from a foreign State pending on July 1, 1964. Provides that these visas shall be issued each year based on estimates of the anticipated numbers of special visas. Provides that special visas not used will be assigned to other countries.