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Bill· SS. 2140 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Immigration Ceiling Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an annual immigration ceiling for three years at 475,000 entrants. Provides that 270,000 of such entrants shall be preference immigrants. States that after such initial three-year period the annual immigration ceiling shall be the level of U.S. emigration plus 100,000. Gives priority to immediate family members and refugees. Requires the President to report to Congress at four-year intervals, beginning no later than January 1, 1986, on the impact of immigration on U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Requires (presently authorizes) the Immigration and Naturalization Service to monitor U.S. emigration.
Bill· HRH.R. 4509 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Immigration Exclusion and Deportation Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make only the following classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and be permitted admission into the United States: (1) those afflicted with dangerous contagious diseases; (2) those suffering from mental illness which could endanger public safety; (3) any alien convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude, with specified exceptions; (4) any alien convicted of two or more offenses for which the aggregate sentences actually imposed were five years or more; (5) any alien convicted of specified drug violations; (6) any alien participating in the persecution of a person because of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion; (7) any alien deemed by the Attorney General as a probable security risk for certain specified reasons; (8) any alien who is an active member of an organization engaged in violence or terrorist activities; (9) those aliens seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor, with certain qualified exceptions; (10) any alien who is a graduate of a medical school not accredited by a body approved for such purpose by the Secretary of Education, with certain exceptions; (11) any excluded or deported alien who seeks readmission within one year of the event, unless such readmission is consented to by the Attorney General; (12) any alien seeking to enter the United States by fraud or the willful misrepresentation of a material fact; (13) any stowaway alien; (14) any alien who aids any other alien in illegal entry; (15) any immigrant not in possession of a valid immigrant visa and passport at the time of admission; and (16) any nonimmigrant not in possession of a valid passport authorizing the alien to return to the country from which he or she came. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Repeals provisions dealing with bond and conditions for admission for permanent residence for retarded, tubercular, and mentally ill aliens. Makes deportable by the Attorney General only those aliens within one of the following classes: (1) any alien who at the time of entry was within one or more of the classes of aliens excludable by then existing law; (2) any alien entering the United States without inspection or at a time and place other than as designated by the Attorney General; (3) any alien admitted as a nonimmigrant who has failed to maintain the nonimmigrant status; (4) any alien arriving from foreign contiguous territory or adjacent islands who has not resided in such territory or islands for at least two years prior to such arrival; (5) any alien convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude committed within five years from the date of entry and who is either sentenced or confined for a term of one year or longer; (6) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude; (7) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted of a violation of certain drug laws; (8) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted under weapons-possession laws; (9) any alien who at any time is convicted on any of various specified loyalty laws (e.g. sabotage, treason and sedition, selective service, etc..); (10) any alien who fails to comply with alien registration laws or foreign agent registration laws; (11) any alien convicted of fraud or misuse of visas or other entry documents; (12) any alien engaging in activity which endangers the public safety or national security; (13) any alien who is an active member of an organization engaged in violence or terrorist activities; or (14) any alien engaged in or associated with the Nazi government of Germany betweeen March 23, 1933, and May 8, 1945, who participated in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion. Makes technical and conforming amendments.
Bill· HRH.R. 4562 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for an immigration emergency revolving fund, to be established in the Treasury, to provide for increased Immigration and Naturalization Service enforcement activities and related State and local reimbursements. Prohibits fund withdrawals unless the President has determined an emergency exists and certified such fact to the appropriate congressional committees.
Bill· SS. 2131 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Directs the President to investigate and report to the Congress within 18 months concerning the living conditions and available assistance for El Salvadorans displaced inside and outside their country. Requires such investigation to report on the fate of El Salvadoran deportees. Requires the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to hold hearings within two years to consider appropriate U.S. steps to assure the personal safety and equitable distribution of assistance to such displaced El Salvadorans. Provides for a three-year moratorium on specified categories of El Salvadoran deportations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4447 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Directs the President to investigate and report to the Congress within 18 months concerning the living conditions and available assistance for El Salvadorans displaced inside and outside their country. Requires such investigation to report on the fate of El Salvadoran deportees. Requires the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to hold hearings within two years to consider appropriate U.S. steps to assure the personal safety and equitable distribution of assistance to such displaced El Salvadorans. Provides for a three-year moratorium on specified categories of El Salvadoran deportations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4413 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act ("the Act") to establish within the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: (1) an Office of Migrant Education to administer specified migrant education programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Higher Education Act of 1965; and (2) an Office of Equity Training and Technical Assistance to administer specified equity training and technical assistance programs under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Requires that such offices be under the direct supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education. Establishes within the Office of Educational Research and Improvement an Office of Women's Educational Equity to administer specified women's educational equity programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Requires that such office be under the direct supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement. Provides that the offices established under this Act shall be considered organizational entities established by the Act and shall not be subject to the reorganizational authority of the Secretary of Education under specified provisions of the Act or any other provision of law.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 431 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should return to Cuba those Cuban nationals from the 1980 Mariel boatlift who are excludable because of criminal activity.
Bill· HRH.R. 4394 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
Immigrant Repatriation Study Act - Directs the Attorney General to study the problem of indigent, elderly immigrants who wish to return to their home countries but can not afford the transportation costs to do so. Requires a report to Congress within 12 months.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 215 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should return to Cuba those Cuban nationals from the 1980 Mariel boatlift who are excludable because of criminal activity.
Bill· SS. 2033 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1983
Declares that the Secretary of State should, within 30 days of receiving an application for a nonimmigrant visa by an alien who is excludable from the United States because of membership in or affiliation with a proscribed organization but who is otherwise admissible to the United States, recommend that the Attorney General approve the issuance of such visa unless the admission of such alien would be contrary to U.S. security or foreign policy interests and the Secretary so certifies.
Bill· SS. 1983 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Immigration Emergency Procedures Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the President to declare an immigration emergency if in his judgment: (1) a substantial number of undocumented aliens from a designated country (countries) or geographic area (areas) are ready to leave for the United States, or have already done so; and (2) the normal resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the procedures under such Act would be inadequate to handle the influx of these aliens. Requires the President to explain such action to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate within 48 hours. Terminates such emergency period after 120 days unless ended sooner or extended by the President. Authorizes the President during an immigration emergency to: (1) prevent or intercept U.S. vessels, vehicles, or aircraft from travelling to designated countries or areas; (2) prevent inadmissible aliens from arriving by requiring their return or their vessel, vehicle, or aircraft's return to a suitable country or area; (3) exempt executive instrumentalities from additional specified environmental requirements for up to one year; (4) close harbors, ports, roads, and airports; (5) designate one or more Federal agencies including the military to carry out these emergency powers (once they are invoked by the President); and (6) enforce the admissibility and asylum determination provisions of this Act beyond the territorial limits of the United States, including on the high seas. Authorizes State and local reimbursement for related immigration emergency costs. States that nothing in this Act shall relieve any carrier or other person from civil or criminal responsibilities for transporting an illegal alien into the United States. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish admissions and asylum procedures for such aliens. Eliminates judicial review of such determinations. Permits the Attorney General to: (1) deport an alien to a country other than the one he came from when necessary; and (2) permit an alien to post a surety bond to ensure admissions compliance. Requires an alien to be detained pending a final determination of admissibility unless he or she is clearly admissible. Permits the Attorney General to transfer such detained aliens at any time. Limits judicial review of the Attorney General's detention and transfer authority to habeas corpus questions of whether a particular person is within the category of aliens subject to detention. Sets forth enforcement, departure, and judicial review provisions for ports, airports, and roads closed under authority of this Act. Grants search and seizure and disaster authority to agencies enforcing this Act. Prohibits U.S. conveyances to travel to, or within specified distances of, designated countries or areas during an immigration emergency without prior executive approval. Provides penalties for violations, including fines, forfeiture, and imprisonment. Provides that violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act committed during an immigration emergency may be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Coast Guard, or any component of the Department of the Treasury. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the fine for unlawfully bringing aliens into the United States. Permits the seizure of a vessel or aircraft so involved. Authorizes appropriations.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 338 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1510 (immigration law revisions).
Bill· HRH.R. 4131 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit naturalization applicants who are 65 years or older to waive the English language requirement and demonstrate U.S. government knowledge in their native language.
Bill· HRH.R. 3923 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1983
Suspends the issuance of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas (with specified exceptions) to Soviet nationals until September 1, 1984.
Bill· SS. 1725 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Immigration Emergency Act - Authorizes the President to declare an immigration emergency if in his judgment: (1) a substantial number of undocumented aliens from a designated country (countries) or geographic area (areas) are ready to leave for the United States, or have already done so; and (2) the normal procedures and resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service would be inadequate to handle the influx of these aliens. Requires the President to explain such action to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate within 48 hours. Terminates such emergency period after 120 days unless ended sooner or extended by the President. Authorizes the President during an immigration emergency to: (1) prevent U.S. vessels, vehicles, or aircraft from traveling to designated countries or areas; (2) prevent inadmissible aliens from arriving by requiring their return or their vessel, vehicle, or aircraft's return to a suitable country or area; (3) exempt executive instrumentalities from additional specified environmental requirements for up to one year; and (4) designate one or more Federal agencies including the military to carry out these emergency powers (once they are invoked by the President). Requires an alien to be detained pending a final determination of admissibility. Permits the Attorney General to transfer such detained aliens at any time. Limits judicial review of the Attorney General's detention and transfer authority to habeas corpus questions of whether a particular person is within the category of aliens subject to detention. Grants search and seizure and disaster authority to agencies enforcing this Act. Prohibits U.S. conveyances from traveling to, or within specified distances of, designated countries or areas during an immigration emergency without prior executive approval. Provides penalties for violations, including fines, forfeiture, and imprisonment. Provides that violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act committed during an immigration emergency may be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Coast Guard, or any component of the Department of the Treasury. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the fine for unlawfully bringing aliens into the United States. Permits the seizure of a vessel or aircraft so involved. Authorizes up to $35,000,000 for purposes of this title.
Bill· HRH.R. 3748 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Entitles an inspector for the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the United States Customs Service to a civil service annuity after such inspector reaches age 50 and completes 20 years of combined service as an inspector, Federal fire fighter, or Federal law enforcement officer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3744 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Amends the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to extend the assistance period for Cuban and Haitian entrants from 36 to 72 months after entry.
Bill· HRH.R. 3729 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee assistance through 1985. Places the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Presently such Refugee Office is in the Social Security Administration.) Authorizes the Secretary of Education (presently the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement) to make grants for special educational programs for refugee children. Requires the Comptroller General to directly audit FY 1984 and FY 1985 initial resettlement grants. Requires a recipient agency (in addition to existing provisions) to: (1) provide quarterly performance and finance reports; (2) notify, upon request, local welfare offices of any cash assistance provided directly by such agency to a refugee; (3) insure that refugees with medical conditions affecting the public health report to the appropriate health authorities in their resettlement areas; and (4) report annually to the administering Federal agency and the appropriate congressional committees regarding refugee placement, expenditures, and other related program information. Authorizes grants for local areas with high refugee concentrations. States that such grants shall supplement other funds and be used primarily for refugee employment. Prohibits refugees who enter the United States on or after October 1, 1984, from receiving aid to families with dependent children assistance for the first 90 days after admission to the United States. Authorizes States to disqualify a refugee from general cash assistance programs during such period, except in extreme hardship cases or in emergencies. Terminates refugee cash assistance for three months for refusal to accept employment (six months for subsequent refusals). Prohibits: (1) such cash or medical assistance grants from being given as block or consolidated grants; and (2) the Director from delegating grant review or approval authority to the States or their political subdivisions.
Bill· HRH.R. 3666 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Directs the President to transfer any funds allocated for military assistance for the Government of El Salvador or for the Nicaraguan rebels to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for use in preventing illegal immigration from Central America.
Bill· HRH.R. 3611 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Refugee Assistance Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to authorize FY 1984 through FY 1986 appropriations for refugee assistance. Limits the annual refugee assistance report to Congress to the immediately preceding five-year period.
Bill· HRH.R. 3609 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) reimburse air carriers for alien detention expenses; and (2) permit the refund of the $1,000 transport company fine for bringing in an illegal alien in the case where the alien, despite documentary inadmissibility, is admitted or paroled into the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 3350 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Directs the Attorney General to compensate States for costs incurred in imprisoning certain Cuban nationals permitted to enter the United States in 1980.
Bill· HRH.R. 3270 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1983
Seasonal Agricultural Foreign Worker Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (The Act) to add to the classification of non-immigrant aliens those foreign workers who have no intention of abandoning a foreign residence, but come to the United States for seasonal agricultural employment for a maximum of eleven consecutive months. Prohibits the admission of an alien as a non- immigrant if such alien has violated the terms or conditions of a previous admission as a non-immigrant within the past five years. Directs the Attorney General to consult with the Secretaries of Agriculture and of Labor to establish an admissions program for nonimmigrant workers entering the United States for seasonal agricultural employment which does not exceed eleven consecutive months. Requires such program to impose monthly and annual quotas upon nonimmigrant visas by agricultural employment region. Subjects the availability of such visas to a specified preference system, based upon a certain allotment formula. States that the availability of a nonimmigrant visa is not predicated upon petitions from prospective employers within the United States. Specifies exceptions. States that nonimmigrant visas shall neither limit the type of agricultural work, nor the geographical area within which aliens may be employed. Requires the Attorney General to designate up to ten agricultural employment regions within the United States. Permits employers of agricultural workers to submit petitions to the Attorney General which specify the month and agricultural employment region concerned, as well as a breakdown of the type of work needed and the availability of domestic and foreign workers to do such work. Requires the Attorney General to prescribe quotas for nonimmigrant visas based upon such petitions and other specified factors. Permits agricultural employers to apply for an increase in nonimmigration visa quotas if they can establish an emergency need based upon certain factors. Requires the Attorney General to decide such applications within seventy-two hours of the completion of such application. Requires employers to apply to the Attorney General as a condition of eligibility to employ nonimmigrants. Requires the Attorney General to approve such applications unless certain findings are made after opportunity for a hearing. Limits an employer's disqualification to a maximum of five years. Authorizes the Attorney General to impose civil monetary penalties upon employers who have committed specified violations. Makes it unlawful to hire, recruit or refer for employment in the United States a nonimmigrant alien in the absence of an approved application for such employment. Details the penalties incurred for specified violations by employers and aliens. Denies any Federal financial assistance based on financial need to aliens admitted as nonimmigrants for seasonal agricultural employment. Requires the Attorney General to report to Congress semiannually on the program. States that this Act preempts any State or local law on the same subject. Prohibits the filing of petitions for preference status for aliens defined as seasonal agricultural foreign workers. Excludes from admission into the United States any such alien workers who are not: (1) continuously employed; or (2) actively seeking employment in the agricultural labor market. Precludes the time spent by aliens in a nonimmigrant status under this Act from being counted as part of the continuous residence requirement for suspended deportation. Bars such aliens from having their status adjusted to permanent resident. Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Managing Trustee to pay into the Treasury estimated social security taxes related to the wages of nonimmigrant aliens employed under this Act. Requires such funds to be credited to: (1) the Department of State for the purpose of making lump-sum benefit payments to such nonimmigrant aliens; and (2) the Immigration and Naturalization Service for administration and enforcement of the program established by this Act. Amends the Social Security Act to require the lump-sum repayment to nonimmigrant aliens under this Act of taxes imposed upon their wages. States that both the application and payment of such benefits may be made only at the consulate nearest the alien's foreign residence after his or her return to it. Excludes from the definition of employment, for purposes of the Social Security Act, seasonal agricultural service performed by nonimmigrant aliens under this Act. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should negotiate with representatives of labor source countries to establish bilateral advisory commissions to advise the Attorney General regarding problems arising under this Act. Details circumstances under which the Attorney General must waive disciplinary proceedings or penalties against employers who have violated specified law during the first year this Act is enacted.
Bill· HRH.R. 3195 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee assistance through FY 1986.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 156 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that extended voluntary departure status should be granted to El Salvadorans until the situation in El Salvador permits their safe return.
Bill· SS. 1268 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Alien Parental Amnesty Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to adjust to permanent resident the status of certain alien parents of U.S.-born children.
Bill· SS. 1248 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Federal Alien Incarceration Responsibility Act - Directs the Attorney General to reimburse State governments for the cost of imprisoning certain aliens who commit felonies. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2963 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt from the English language naturalization requirement persons 50 years or older with five years U.S. residence who were admitted as conditional entrants, paroled, or granted asylum.
Bill· HRH.R. 2866 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983 - Title I: Control of Illegal Immigration - Part A: Use of False Documents - Amends the Immigration and Naturalization Act to make it illegal to fraudulently misuse or manufacture entry or work documents. Increases penalties for such violations. Part B: Enforcement and Fees - Authorizes FY 1984 through 1986 appropriations for specified Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) enforcement activities. Authorizes supplemental FY 1983 appropriations. Restricts INS warrantless entry onto farms or other outdoor operations. Directs the Attorney General to take action to safeguard the rights, safety, and dignity of persons within the United States in the enforcement of immigration laws. Requires INS training to familiarize INS officers with the rights and varied cultural backgrounds of aliens and citizens. Authorizes INS facilities fees. Part C: Adjudication Procedures and Asylum - Directs immigration officers to exclude without hearing aliens without proper documents or without any reasonable basis for legal entry or asylum. Establishes in the Department of Justice a United States Immigration Board to hear appeals from final decisions of immigration judges. Replaces the existing special inquiry officer system with a system of immigration judges. Provides for judicial review of exclusion cases and those asylum cases encompassed within deportation or exclusion orders. Sets forth statutory asylum provisions. Part D: Adjustment of Status - Prohibits adjustment of status to permanent resident for violators of (nonimmigrant) visa terms. Part E: Commission on Immigration and International Development - Establishes the National Commission on Immigration and International Development to review and make recommendations regarding social and economic conditions affecting unauthorized immigration into the United States. Directs such Commission to consult with the Government of Mexico and advise the Attorney General regarding the temporary worker program. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of its final report to Congress Title II: Reform of Legal Immigration - Part A: Immigrants - Authorizes additional visas for Mexico and Canada. Increases the colonial quota. Requires the President to report to Congress every three years on immigration admissions. Eliminates "sexual deviation" as a ground for deportation or exclusion. Exempts certain retirees from numerical admissions limitations. Part B: Nonimmigrants - Separates temporary agricultural labor from other temporary labor for purposes of nonimmigrant worker provisions. Limits such workers to an eight-month annual stay unless otherwise authorized. Requires an employer visa petition to certify that: (1) there are not enough U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected. Sets forth application, certification, and employment condition provisions. Requires: (1) annual certification reports to Congress; and (2) a report to Congress on temporary worker program improvements within 18 months. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1983 to: (1) recruit domestic workers; (2) monitor the nonimmigrant worker program; and (3) make determinations and certifications. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish an advisory commission to consult with the Government of Mexico and advise the Attorney General regarding such temporary worker program. Requires foreign students to return to their home country for two years before being eligible for U.S. permanent residence. Sets forth exceptions. Authorizes a three-year pilot visa waiver program for up to eight countries providing a similar benefit to U.S. visitors. Title III: Legalization - Establishes a program to legalize the status of specified resident undocumented aliens. Sets forth program provisions. Requires a program report to Congress within 18 months. Updates the registry date for permanent entry admissions records from June 30, 1948, to January 1, 1983. Authorizes State legalization assistance funds for FY 1984 through 1987.
Bill· HRH.R. 2815 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the "sexual deviation" exclusion provision.
Bill· HRH.R. 2728 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1983
Revises, codifies, and enacts without substantive change certain laws relating to aliens and nationality as title 8, United States Code, "Aliens and Nationality." Subdivides such title into the following subtitles: (1) general; (2) immigration; (3) citizenship and nationality; (4) passports and travel control; and (5) refugees. Subtitle I: General - Sets forth: (1) definitions and special provisions, for certain nonimmigrants; (2) organization, administration, and authorities of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Bureau of Consular Affairs; and (3) miscellaneous liaison and procedural provisions. Subtitle II: Immigration - Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) immigrant and nonimmigrant admissions; (2) exclusion; (3) entry documents and registration; (4) entry and exclusion; (5) alien crew members; (6) deportation and classification changes; and (7) jurisdiction and civil and criminal penalties. Subtitle III: Citizenship and Nationality - Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) citizenship and nationality at birth and collective naturalization; (2) nationality through naturalization; (3) loss of nationality; (4) nationality documents; and (5) citizenship instruction and procedures if a right or privilege as a national is denied. Subtitle IV: Passports and Travel Control - Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) passports; and (2) travel control and related documents. Subtitle V: Refugees - Sets forth refugee provisions respecting: (1) admissions; (2) policy coordination and resettlement and educational assistance; and (3) international participation and emergency assistance.
Bill· HRH.R. 2680 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the owner or operator of an international bridge or toll road to request the Attorney General to inspect and approve measures taken to prevent aliens from illegally crossing into the United States. States that such approved measures shall be prima facie evidence of compliance with obligations under such Act to prevent illegal entries.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 116 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Commends the decision to offer political asylum to Hu Na, of China.
Bill· SS. 1086 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the "sexual deviation" exclusion provision.
Bill· SS. 1083 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who die while serving with the U.S. Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities may be considered to have been U.S. citizens at the time of their deaths.
Bill· HRH.R. 2617 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to delete a separate definition of "consular officer" applicable to the Canal Zone, American Samoa, and Swains Island.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 241 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Proclaims Nelson Mandela an honorary citizen of the United States and requests the President to take steps to secure his unconditional release from prison in South Africa.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 240 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Proclaims Winnie Mandela an honorary citizen of the United States and requests the President to seek from South Africa a revocation of her banishment to Brandfort, South Africa.
Bill· HRH.R. 2534 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to accept donated horses for border patrol use.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 80 (98th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Requests the President to grant posthumous citizenship to William Penn, founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn.
Bill· HRH.R. 2466 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to separate temporary agricultural labor from other temporary labor for purposes of nonimmigrant worker (H-2 visa) provisions. Restricts the definition of agricultural labor or services to specified definitions in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the Internal Revenue Code. Limits H-2 workers to an eight-month stay in any calendar year. Authorizes agricultural workers to remain longer if before enactment of this Act the Secretary of Labor has recognized an extension as necessary. Prohibits entry to workers who have violated entry conditions within the past five years. Prohibits entry to agricultural workers unless specified conditions have been met respecting housing, injury benefits, meals, transportation, and wages, including piece rates, and recordkeeping. Requires an employer submitting an H-2 visa petition to certify that: (1) there are not enough qualified U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected. Makes such certification a prerequisite for the admission of H-2 workers. Prohibits the Attorney General from approving more H-2 petitions in any fiscal year than were approved in FY 1982 unless the Secretary of Labor has certified to the Attorney General and to Congress that sufficient enforcement funds are available. Permits the Secretary to charge application fees. Requires employers of H-2 agricultural workers to pay them an additional amount equal to the amount of FICA and unemployment taxes that would have been paid to U.S. workers. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a petition if: (1) a job is open because of a strike or other labor dispute; or (2) the employer violated certification terms, including failure to pay penalties. Provides with regard to H-2 agricultural workers that: (1) employers must submit petitions at least 80 days in advance of need; (2) the Secretary must respond promptly in writing regarding a disapproved petition, and within 20 days of need regarding an approved petition; (3) there must be a 60-day recruitment period before an employer may file a petition; (4) the Secretary shall establish expedited procedures for review of denied petitions or de novo administrative hearings; and (5) producer associations may file such petitions (individual members or users are still liable for any violations). Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1984 for recruitment of domestic workers, work program monitoring, and certification expenses. Provides a private right of action in U.S. district court for any person aggrieved by a violation of the H-2 provisions. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General, to: (1) promulgate implementing regulations; and (2) report to Congress within 18 months regarding improvements in the temporary worker program. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish an advisory commission to consult with Mexico and advise the Attorney General regarding such temporary worker program.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 233 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1983
Requests the President to grant posthumous citizenship to William Penn, founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Hannah Callowhill Penn.
Bill· HRH.R. 2427 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1983
Nonimmigrant Worker Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to separate temporary agricultural labor from other temporary labor for purposes of nonimmigrant worker (H-2 visa) provisions. Prohibits the employment of such agricultural workers for more than nine months in a calendar year. Permits the Secretary of Labor to extend such period for pre-existing occupations or extenuating circumstances. Prohibits entry to workers who have violated entry conditions within the past five years. Requires an employer H-2 visa petition to certify that: (1) there are not enough local U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected. Permits the Secretary to charge application fees. Prohibits the Secretary from approving such petition if: (1) the job is open because of a strike or lock-out; or (2) the employer violated temporary worker admissions terms within the past two years or failed to pay a civil penalty for such violation. Provides that an employer may not be denied a certification for more than three years for any such admission violation. Provides with regard to agricultural workers that: (1) the employer need not submit a labor certification (petition) more than 65 days in advance of need; (2) the Secretary shall require a 45-day domestic worker recruitment period; (3) producer associations may file such petitions; and (4) the Secretary shall establish expedited procedures for review of denied petitions or de novo administrative hearings. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report annually to Congress regarding such nonimmigrant worker provisions and their domestic effects; and (2) establish employment standards which are at least comparable to those under existing regulations. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1984 to recruit domestic workers and monitor the nonimmigrant worker program. Requires a program improvement report within 18 months. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should establish an advisory commission to consult with Mexico and advise the Attorney General regarding such temporary worker program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2361 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Control of Illegal Immigration - Part A: Employment - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it unlawful to knowingly hire an unauthorized alien and to fail to comply with health or wage requirements regarding such employment. Makes it unlawful to engage in a pattern or practice of such hiring activities. Provides civil and equitable administrative penalties for such violations. Requires an employer to verify a potential employee's work status. Grants an individual administrative relief against an employer who fails to accept tendered employment documentation in good faith. Directs the Attorney General to establish a task force to monitor such employment provisions. Part B: Proper Enforcement and Services - Requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress an Immigration and Nationality Service operations (personnel and funding) plan for FY 1984 through FY 1986. Requires the Secretary of Labor to submit to Congress an operations plan for enforcing the employment provisions of this Act for FY 1984 through FY 1986. Authorizes supplemental appropriations through FY 1986. Requires the Attorney General to take due and deliberate actions to safequard constitutional and civil rights. Part C: Adjudication Procedures and Asylum - Establishes a United States Immigration Board (within the Department of Justice) to hear appeals from final decisions of immigration judges. Limits judicial review. Revises asylum provisions. Replaces the special inquiry officers with a system of administrative law judges. Authorizes FY 1984 appropriations. Part D: Adjustment of Status - Prohibits adjustment of status to permanent resident for violators of nonimmigrant visa terms. Part E: Commission on Immigration and International Development - Establishes a National Commission on Immigration and International Development to analyze social and economic conditions in the United States and abroad with regard to U.S. immigration problems and polices. Directs the Commission to consult with the Mexican Government and advise the Attorney General regarding the temporary worker program. Requires reports to the President and to the Congress. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of the final report (4 years). Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Reform of Legal Immigration and Naturalization - Part A: Immigrants - Revises numerical limitations. Permits 40,000 annual entrants each from Mexico and Canada. Sets forth "family reunification" and "independent" preference allocations, and an interpreference allocation guide. Revises labor certification provisions. Grants special immigrant status to certain family members of employees of international organizations. Permits certain aliens in the United States whose immigrant visas will become available before October 1, 1984, to work. Part B: Nonimmigrants - Separates temporary agricultural labor from other labor for purposes of nonimmigrant worker provisions. Limits (H-2 visa) temporary workers to a miximum eight-month stay per year, except for agricultural workers who may stay for more than one year if previously so allowed. Requires an employer H-2 visa petition to certify that: (1) there are not enough local U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected. Sets forth application and certification provisions. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Agriculture, to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1984 to recruit domestic workers and monitor the nonimmigrant worker program. Authorizes the Attorney General to waive the two-year foreign residence requirement for status adjustment to immigrant (or for nonimmigrant trainees) for specified numbers of students with certain high technology degrees. Prohibits other foreign students (except those who are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens) and visitors admitted under the visa waiver program from adjusting to immigrant status. Authorizes a three-year pilot visa program. Part C: Naturalization - Waives the English language requirement for persons over 50 years old. Revises naturalization-through-military service residency requirements. Title III: Legalization - Provides for the legalization (permanent or temporary resident status) of certain aliens who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and who have continuously resided illegally in this country since entry. Authorizes FY 1984 appropriations for such program. Requires the President to report to Congress within 18 months regarding such program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2356 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
United States Immigration Court Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a United States Immigration Court, consisting of a 70-judge trial and a six-judge appellate division. Sets forth jurisdictional provisions and appellate review procedures. Grants jurisdiction to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to review immigration matters such as deportation, exclusion and asylum. Provides for exclusion without hearing under specified circumstances. Permits any alien physically present in the United States or at a land border or port of entry to apply for asylum unless exclusion or deportation proceedings have been instituted. Prescribes conditions under which asylum shall be considered even where exclusion or deportation proceedings have been instituted. Provides for a public asylum hearing and requires aliens to be advised of right of counsel. Sets forth effective dates and transition procedures.
Bill· HRH.R. 2360 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1983
Requires nationals of Communist countries to register with the Attorney General before engaging in certain activities involving Members of Congress and congressional employees. Requires the Attorney General to deport persons violating this Act. States that such deportations shall not be subject to judicial review or other related provisions under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2304 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1983
Immigration Emergency Act - Authorizes the President to declare an immigration emergency if in his judgment: (1) a substantial number of undocumented aliens from a designated country (countries) or geographic area (areas) are ready to leave for the United States, or have already done so; and (2) the normal procedures and resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service would be inadequate to handle the influx of these aliens. Requires the President to explain such action to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate within 48 hours. Terminates such emergency period after 120 days unless ended sooner or extended by the President. Authorizes the President during an immigration emergency to: (1) prevent U.S. vessels, vehicles, or aircraft from traveling to designated countries or areas; (2) prevent inadmissible aliens from arriving by requiring their return or their vessel, vehicle, or aircraft's return to a suitable country or area; (3) exempt executive instrumentalities from additional specified environmental requirements for up to one year; and (4) designate one or more Federal agencies including the military to carry out these emergency powers (once they are invoked by the President). Requires an alien to be detained pending a final determination of admissibility. Permits the Attorney General to transfer such detained aliens at any time. Limits judicial review of the Attorney General's detention and transfer authority to habeas corpus questions of whether a particular person is within the category of aliens subject to detention. Grants search and seizure and disaster authority to agencies enforcing this Act. Prohibits U.S. conveyances from traveling to, or within specified distances of, designated countries or areas during an immigration emergency without prior executive approval. Provides penalties for violations, including fines, forfeiture, and imprisonment. Provides that violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act committed during an immigration emergency may be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Coast Guard, or any component of the Department of the Treasury. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the fine for unlawfully bringing aliens into the United States. Permits the seizure of a vessel or aircraft so involved. Authorizes up to $35,000,000 for purposes of this title.
Bill· HRH.R. 2254 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
United States - Mexico Good Neighbor Employment Act of 1983 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to establish a program for the nonimmigrant admission of Mexican nationals as temporary workers in the United States. Provides that: (1) the Attorney General shall establish annual and monthly quotas for temporary worker visas based on the chronological order of application; (2) such temporary services or labor shall not exceed 180 days per year; (3) such visas shall not limit the geographic area or employment within which an alien may work unless specific restrictions are requested by the Secretary of Labor in order to protect domestic workers; (4) an alien who violates the 180-day visa limitation or any imposed geographic restriction shall be ineligible for another temporary visa for five years; and (5) an alien who enters the United States illegally shall be ineligible for obtaining a temporary work visa for ten years. Excludes such temporary Mexican workers from the definition of "immigrant" for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Includes such workers within the category of aliens whose nonimmigrant status may not be adjusted to that of an immigrant. Prohibits the Attorney General from consenting to the reapplication for admission of any such workers whose 180-day limitation has been exhausted. Authorizes the Secretary of State to establish and expand U.S. consulates in Mexico in order to implement such temporary worker program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make the nature of such program known to Mexican nationals residing in the United States. Requires the Attorney General to report semiannually to Congress regarding the temporary worker visa program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should establish with Mexico an advisory commission to advise the Attorney General with regard to such temporary worker program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2229 (98th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit an Immigration and Naturalization Service official or employee from entering a farm or outdoor operation without a warrant or the owner's consent.
Bill· SS. 867 (98th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1983
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to local educational agencies in States bordering Mexico for the construction of school facilities to assist in providing education for legal immigrant children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such a grant and the eligibility of an agency for a grant based on the number of such children aged five through 17 enrolled in the schools of an agency. Includes for such purposes only such children who reside, or whose parents or guardians reside, in the school district of the agency. Earmarks a specified amount of the appropriations authorized under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 for such grants. Requires that individual agency entitlements be ratably reduced if such amount is not sufficient to pay the full amount all agencies are entitled to receive. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Secretary to withhold grant payments to any agency that fails to comply with the terms of its application until the Secretary is satisfied that there is no longer any failure to comply.