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United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the legalization program application period from 12 months to 24 months.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1987
Commission To Investigate Federal Involvement With the Immigration of Nazi Collaborators Act - Establishes the Commission To Investigate Federal Involvement With the Immigration of Nazi Collaborators. Requires the Commission to determine the extent to which Federal intelligence agencies used deception or violated laws in bringing Nazi war criminals and Axis collaborators into the United States. Sets forth operating and administrative provisions. Requires a report to the Congress within 18 months of the Commission's first meeting. Terminates the Commission 90 days after such report has been filed. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1987
Immigration Employment Paperwork Reduction Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal certain employment verification recordkeeping requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1987
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1326 (community and migrant health centers).
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1987
Amerasian Homecoming Act - Provides for the admission as an immigrant into the United States (for two years beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act) of an alien residing in Vietnam who: (1) was born in Vietnam after January 1, 1962, and before January 1, 1976, and whose father was a U.S. citizen; or (2) is the spouse, child, or mother, or has acted as the next of kin (with specified limitations) of such an alien. Requires on-site consular interviews in making such determinations. Provides for an eight-month period of visa validity. Provides, with regard to such aliens, for: (1) the waiver of specified exclusionary grounds under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and (2) specified (refugee) assistance under such Act. Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, to submit program reports to the Congress annually for three years.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1987
Immigration Service Volunteer Assistance Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization to accept, recruit, and train volunteer workers to assist the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in various support roles. Declares that such volunteers shall not be used to displace INS personnel. Empowers the Commissioner to provide for the incidental expenses of such volunteers. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose criminal penalties on a person who knowingly aids an alien convicted of specified crimes to enter the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish additional specified criminal penalties for an alien who reenters the United States after having been deported subsequent to conviction of a felony or aggravated felony.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish criminal penalties for refusing or neglecting to appear at immigration proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for computer linkage between the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the National Crime Information Center and other computerized criminal indexes with respect to information on aliens convicted of crimes and deportable aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require, pending deportation proceedings, the detention of an alien convicted of an aggravated felony (murder, kidnapping, rape, or any attempt thereof, or illicit trafficking in drugs). Prohibits conditional parole for such an alien. Requires deportation proceedings to give priority to such cases.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to nonimmigrant classification for temporary agricultural workers under the H-2A program. Defines the temporary or seasonal work addressed in the H-2A program to include work related to both the production of agricultural commodities and the breeding and preparation for market of poultry and livestock of all kinds, regardless of the time of year when the work is required. Permits a worker under the program to petition to the Secretary of Labor for certification if the work demands the worker's presence for a year or more.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1987
Irish Permanent Resident Adjustment Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the adjustment of status to permanent resident for certain Irish nationals or persons born in Northern Ireland who have continuously resided in the United States since September 1, 1987. Requires such aliens to apply for status adjustment within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1987
Provides for the processing of current and former Cuban political prisoners as refugees for U.S. entry regardless of the length of such imprisonment. Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to Cuban nationals without regard to: (1) a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the refusual to accept the return of nationals; (2) the visa application site; or (3) the date of departure from Cuba for persons applying for visas outside Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to specified (ideological) grounds for exclusion and deportation of aliens. Amends Federal law to repeal the provision requiring the Secretary of State to admit an alien excluded from nonimmigrant entry because of proscribed organization affiliation, but otherwise admissible, unless such person is a security risk.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1987
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report - Directs the Comptroller General to begin on January 1, 1988, an investigation concerning displaced Polish nationals, including specified determinations with respect to: (1) Polish nationals who have been required to leave the United States and who returned to Poland; and (2) Polish nationals unlawfully present in the United States. Requires the Comptroller General to submit a detailed report to specified congressional leadership within two years of beginning the investigation. Title II: Congressional Review - Sets forth procedures the Congress must follow in considering the Comptroller General's report, including provisions and timetables to govern committee referral, hearings, and reports. Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Prohibits the Attorney General from detaining or deporting, during a prescribed time period, certain potentially deportable Polish nationals who have been and are continuously present in the United States since registering pursuant to this Act. Requires Polish nationals affected by this Act to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Provides, upon registration, for employment authorization documentation terminating at the end of the mandatory suspension of deportation period. Describes the alien's status during the temporary stay.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1987
Immigration Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise numerical limitations for immigrant admissions with respect to family reunification immigrants and independent immigrants. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretaries of State, Labor, and Health and Human Services, every five years, beginning two years after this Act becomes effective, to prepare jointly and to submit to the President and to specified congressional committees a report discussing the need to revise these numerical limitations. Lists factors to be considered in preparing the report. Requires the President within 60 days of receiving the report to transmit to the Congress a certification as to whether the numerical limitations should be changed and, if so, what they should be. Deems the numerical limitations cartified by the President to be valid for the subsequent five fiscal years unless the Congress acts through a joint resolution to prohibit their effect. Prescribes the expedited parliamentary procedure to be followed in the House of Representatives and in the Senate in considering such a joint resolution. Revises the preference visa allocation system for immigrant admissions with respect to family reunification immigrants to: (1) increase the percentage of visas available to qualified spouses and unmarried minor children of permanent resident aliens; and (2) decrease the percentage available to qualified children and siblings of U.S. citizens. Revises the preference and nonpreference visa allocation system for independent immigrants to set fiscal year numerical limitations on visas available to aliens who are professionals holding doctoral degrees, aliens of exceptional ability, or skilled workers. Establishes a point system applicable to nonpreference aliens under which credit for visa qualification assessment is based on such eligibility criteria as: (1) country of origin (with preference for countries adversely affected by immigration reforms enacted in 1965); (2) work skills and employability; (3) education and literacy; and (4) age. Sets forth the formula for determining the appropriate allocation preference system to be applied to natives of any single foreign state with respect to which the maximum number of visas will be made available. Revises the labor certification procedure used with regard to excludable aliens and reduces the scope of its applicability to certain preference immigrants. Provides for judicial review in U.S. district court of the Secretary of Labor's decisions with respect to exclusions related to labor certification. Permits a waiver of the offer of employment requirement for immigrant admission purposes when the Attorney General deems the waiver to be in the national interest. Directs the Secretary of Labor to study and report to the Congress, within six months of this Act's enactment, on means for streamlining the labor certification process used in the immigration context. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1987
Amerasian Homecoming Act - Provides for the admission as an immigrant into the United States (for two years beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act) of an alien residing in Vietnam who: (1) was born in Vietnam after January 1, 1962, and before January 1, 1976, and whose father was a U.S. citizen; or (2) is the spouse, child, or mother, or has acted as the next of kin (with specified limitations) of such an alien. Requires on-site consular interviews in making such determinations. Provides for an eight-month period of visa validity. Provides, with regard to such aliens, for: (1) the waiver of specified exclusionary grounds under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and (2) specified (refugee) assistance under such Act. Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, to submit program reports to the Congress annually for three years.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1987
Immigration Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise numerical limitations for immigrant admissions with respect to family reunification immigrants and independent immigrants. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretaries of State, Labor, and Health and Human Services, every five years, beginning two years after this Act becomes effective, to prepare jointly and to submit to the President and to specified congressional committees a report discussing the need to revise these numerical limitations. Lists factors to be considered in preparing the report. Requires the President within 60 days of receiving the report to transmit to the Congress a certification as to whether the numerical limitations should be changed and, if so, what they should be. Deems the numerical limitations certified by the President to be valid for the subsequent five fiscal years unless the Congress acts through a joint resolution to prohibit their effect. Prescribes the expedited parliamentary procedure to be followed in the House of Representatives and in the Senate in considering such a joint resolution. Revises the preference visa allocation system for immigrant admissions with respect to family reunification immigrants to: (1) increase the percentage of visas available to qualified spouses and unmarried minor children of permanent resident aliens; and (2) decrease the percentage available to qualified children and siblings of U.S. citizens. Revises the preference and nonpreference visa allocation system for independent immigrants to set fiscal year numerical limitations on visas available to aliens who are professionals holding doctoral degrees, aliens of exceptional ability, or skilled workers. Establishes a point system applicable to nonpreference aliens under which credit for visa qualification assessment is based on such eligibility criteria as: (1) country of origin (with preference for countries adversely affected by immigration reforms enacted in 1965); (2) work skills and employability; (3) education and literacy; and (4) age. Sets forth the formula for determining the appropriate allocation preference system to be applied to natives of any single foreign state with respect to which the maximum number of visas will be made available. Revises the labor certification procedure used with regard to excludable aliens and reduces the scope of its applicability to certain preference immigrants. Provides for judicial review in U.S. district court of the Secretary of Labor's decisions with respect to exclusions related to labor certification. Permits a waiver of the offer of employment requirement for immigrant admission purposes when the Attorney General deems the waiver to be in the national interest. Directs the Secretary of Labor to study and report to the Congress, within six months of this Act's enactment, on means for streamlining the labor certification process used in the immigration context. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1987
Amerasian Homecoming Act - Provides for the admission as an immigrant into the United States (for two years beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act) of an alien residing in Vietnam who: (1) was born in Vietnam after January 1, 1962, and before January 1, 1976, and whose father was a U.S. citizen; or (2) is the spouse, child, or mother, or has acted as the next of kin (with specified limitations) of such an alien. Requires on-site consular interviews in making such determinations. Provides for an eight-month period of visa validity. Provides, with regard to such aliens, for: (1) the waiver of specified exclusionary grounds under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and (2) specified (refugee) assistance under such Act. Directs the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, to submit program reports to the Congress annually for three years.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the exclusion or deportation of any alien for possession or use of certain controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1987
Limits the number of fiscal year alien admissions (other than political asylum entries) to 600,000.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the revocation of approval of a petition for immediate relative status filed on behalf of the spouse of a U.S. citizen solely because of the citizen's death, if the spouse: (1) was married to such citizen as of the date the petition was approved; (2) is not criminally liable for such death; and (3) is the parent of a U.S. citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1987
Temporary Safe Haven Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to permit aliens who are nationals of certain countries temporarily to remain and work in the United States. Applies such treatment to any alien who is a national of a country that the Attorney General designates as one to which the alien should not immediately return because: (1) such return would not be in the national interest of the United States; (2) armed conflict within the country would pose a personal danger to the alien; or (3) a natural disaster has disrupted the living conditions in the country. Requires the Attorney General to review such designations at least once a year, terminating any designation when the relevant conditions no longer exist. Allows such a temporary stay only to aliens who have been continuously physically present in the United States since the effective date of designation of their home country, and who register for the temporary benefits. Disallows such benefits to any alien who is deportable, with specified exceptions, or who is regarded as a danger to the security of the United States. Provides for the issuance of documentation to eligible aliens. States that aliens granted temporary benefits under this Act shall not be considered as permanently residing in the United States under color of law and shall not be eligible for Federal public assistance programs. Declares this Act to be the exclusive authority of the Attorney General under law to permit aliens to remain temporarily in the United States by virtue of their particular nationality or region of foreign state of nationality. Directs the Attorney General to report annually to specified congressional committees on the operation of this Act. States that determinations of the Attorney General under this Act shall not be subject to judicial review.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1987
Immigration and Nationality Efficiency Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Entry and Adjustment of Status - Part A: Entry and Adjustment of Status of Immigrants - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude returning permanent resident aliens from the definition of "entry" for purposes of this Act. Provides for the admission of a limited number of specified employees of multinational corporations and their families as special immigrants. Requires members of professions to have appropriate college degrees or significant work experience for purposes of such Act. Allows surviving spouses of citizens to petition for entry under immediate relative status. Reduces the Amerasian sponsorship requirement from five years to two years. Allows private agency sponsorship for adult Amerasians. Repeals the employment offer requirement for preference entry purposes for specified aliens with extraordinary ability in the arts. Extends reentry permit length from not more than two years to five years. Part B: Entry and Adjustment of Status of Nonimmigrants - Provides for the temporary admission into the United States of operators of (passenger) motor common carriers. Broadens the classification of nonimmigrant treaty trader and investor to include supervisory services or transfer of technology. Permits admission as nonimmigrants of non-treaty traders or investors who invest substantial amounts of money and employ at least five U.S. workers from countries providing similar reciprocal immigration rights to U.S. nationals. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to monitor such admissions and report to the Congress within two years. Separates "H" status nonimmigrants into professionals or executives and aliens of distinguished merit and ability. Requires alien trainees to participate in formal training programs. Part C: Refugee-Related Provisions - Provides for permanent resident status to be granted to refugees immediately upon entry. Title II: Exclusion and Deportation - Authorizes the waiver of literacy requirements (for purposes of exclusion) for sole surviving siblings 55 years of age or older. Provides for the deportation of an alien who enters the United States under a work-related preference visa and does not engage in such employment or occupation within 12 months of entry. Replaces the existing individual suspension of deportation reporting requirement with an annual reporting requirement regarding numbers and nationality of suspended deportations. Title III: Enforcement - Provides for the temporary release on parole of an alien involved in exclusion or deportation proceedings. Prohibits such release under specified circumstances. Increases specified Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) fines. Authorizes the INS to receive 50 percent of such amounts. Title IV: Citizenship and Naturalization - Permits a child born outside the United States to derive citizenship automatically upon naturalization of the parent if the child resides permanently in the United States and is less than 18 years old at the time such naturalization occurs. Permits nonprofit organizations approved by the Attorney General to receive naturalization material. Directs the Commissioner of the INS to provide for, and make available to the Congress and to the public, statistical information useful in evaluating the social, economic, environmental, and demographic effects of this Act's provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Polish Permanent Resident Adjustment Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the adjustment of status to permanent resident for certain Polish nationals who have continuously resided in the United States since July 21, 1984. Requires such aliens to apply for status adjustment within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the total number (270,000) of permanent resident visas available in a fiscal year by the number of special immigrant, immediate relative, and preference visas issued during the preceding fiscal year in excess of 255,000.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1987
Humanitarian Family Unity Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the continuous residence requirement under the legalization program for spouses and children of legalized aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1987
Declares that the Secretary of State should recommend the continued extension of voluntary departure status for nationals of Poland in the United States, and the Attorney General should continue to extend such status for nationals of Poland.
United States · United States Senate · 17 June 1987
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the total number (270,000) of permanent resident visas available in a fiscal year by the number of special immigrant, immediate relative, and preference visas issued during the preceding fiscal year in excess of 255,000. Stipulates that such reductions may not exceed 50 percent of such total.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Polish Permanent Resident Adjustment Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the adjustment of status to permanent resident for certain Polish nationals who have continuously resided in the United States since July 21, 1984. Requires such aliens to apply for status adjustment within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1987
Provides for the processing of current and former Cuban political prisoners as refugees for U.S. entry regardless of the length of imprisonment. Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to Cuban nationals without regard to: (1) a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the refusal to accept the return of nationals; (2) the visa application site; or (3) the date of departure from Cuba for persons applying for visas outside Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the admission into the United States of an alien infected with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish within the Department of State a Visa Review Board to review the cases of certain aliens who have been denied visas, including cases of special immigrants, immediate relatives, preference status immigrants, and specified nonimmigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Overseas American Children's Human Rights Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that a person born outside the United States and its possessions to mixed alien and citizen parents shall be a U.S. citizen at birth if the citizen parent was physically present in the United States or its possessions for one year in the aggregate. (Under current law, the parent must have been present for five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of 14 years.) Provides that a child who is under 18 years old at the time of this Act's enactment, and whose U.S. parent fulfilled the one-year requirement at the time of the child's birth, shall be a U.S. citizen. Grants U.S. national and natural-born citizen status to any person born, whether in or out of wedlock, to a U.S. citizen parent outside the United States if such person would otherwise be stateless at birth.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create an additional immigrant admissions preference category for persons from countries adversely affected by the enactment of Public Law 89-236 (1965 immigration reform law). Establishes a ten percent annual admissions allocation for such category. Reduces the existing work-related third and sixth preference categories' annual admissions allocations from ten percent to five percent. Directs the Secretary of State to determine and submit to the Congress related per country quotas and selection methods. Prohibits an alien from adjusting to immigrant status on the basis of such additional preference.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit alien legalization fees to be paid in installments.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress: (1) commending the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for efforts at district levels to implement the legalization program in ways that prevent the deportation of ineligible family members; and (2) that in order to ensure the success of such program and establish a uniform national policy, INS district directors should use their authority to provide relief from deportation, and authorize employment where appropriate, to assure family unity.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant special immigrant status to an alien service member or veteran who has served honorably in the U.S. armed forces for four years, and to any accompanying spouse and children.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to redefine "seasonal agricultural services" to include work related to livestock and poultry raising and marketing.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt from the English language naturalization requirement permanent residents over 65 years old who have lived in the United States for at least five years.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1987
Amerasian Immigration Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding the preferential admissions of certain Amerasian persons to: (1) eliminate the birth cut-off date; (2) include Amerasians born in the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan; (3) permit church or civil group sponsors; (4) reduce the sponsorship period from five years to two years; (5) permit the admission of mothers of minor children; and (6) permit the admission of certain pre-1950 cases from Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Amends the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America to: (1) provide that a person born in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be considered to have been a citizen of the Trust Territory on November 3, 1986, and not owing allegiance to a foreign state if one parent of such person was born in the Trust Territory and such person took no affirmative steps to acquire or preserve foreign nationality after his or her 18th birthday; and (2) specify that "all persons" shall be construed to refer to any person and his or her child (thus granting Trust Territory citizenship, and U.S. passport eligibility, to certain persons born in the Northern Mariana Islands after termination of the United Nations trusteeship).
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Government of Cuba should take immediate steps to resume implementation of the agreement on migration between the United States and Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to delay the implementation of employer sanction provisions by four months, in order to allow for a continued period of public information dissemination regarding the unlawful employment of aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal aid for refugee assistance programs should not be reduced.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Provides for the processing of current and former Cuban political prisoners as refugees for U.S. entry regardless of the length of such imprisonment. Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to Cuban nationals without regard to: (1) a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the refusual to accept the return of nationals; (2) the visa application site; or (3) the date of departure from Cuba for persons applying for visas outside Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Federal aid for refugee assistance programs should not be reduced.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish criminal penalties for refusing or neglecting to appear at immigration proceedings.