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101 records in 1973
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1973
Requires the Attorney General to employ additional personnel pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act to patrol the borders of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1973
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, for the elimination of procedures for the voluntary departure of aliens illegally in the United States. Increases the penalties for bringing in, harboring, and the illegal entry of aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 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 · 10 July 1973
Transfers to the Secretary of State the powers, duties and functions of consular officers relating to the granting or refusal of visas under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1973
Transfers to the Secretary of State the powers, duties and functions of consular officers relating to the granting or refusal of visas under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Makes an alien who has been convicted for possession of marihuana eligible for an application for a visa and for admission into the United States after a hearing and upon such terms as the Attorney General prescribes. Permits the Attorney General, after a hearing and upon such terms as he may prescribe, to waive deportation of any alien who has been convicted for the possession of marihuana. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(23), 1251(b))
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973
Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, for the elimination of procedures for voluntary departure of aliens illegally in the United States. Increases the penalties for bringing in, harboring, and the illegal entry of aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973
Requires the Attorney General under the Immigration and Nationality Act to employ additional personnel to patrol the land borders of the United States. Directs the Attorney General to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of (1) the feasibility of establishing a system for the issuance of machine readable cards to aliens entering the United States and (2) the feasibility of utilizing the most current available technology in electronic sensing devises for use by the border patrol force.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1973
Disregards specified provisions relating to paupers under the Immigration and Nationality Act when the visa applicant is the alien spouse or child of a United States citizen or permanent resident. (Adds 8 U.S.C. 1182(j))
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide hospital care and medical services abroad to an alien, who was never an American citizen for any service-connected disability incurred while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 624(b))
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1973
Prohibits the issuance to an unmarried minor under 18 years of age of a passport which would permit him to leave the United States in violation of a legal custody order.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973
Transfers to the Secretary of State the powers, duties and functions of consular officers relating to the granting or refusal of visas under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1973
Grants a child adopted by a single United States citizen the same immigrant status as a child adopted by a United States citizen and his spouse, and permits a United States citizen to file for immediate relative status for more than two adopted children under the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(F))
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Extends the program for health services for domestic agricultural migrant workers, under the Public Health Service Act, by authorizing appropriations for such programs of $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $105,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes appropriations of a total of $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1973-1977 for hospital care to domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 242h)
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
Disallows deductions from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for the salary paid to an alien illegally employed in the United States. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 280)
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Lico Silva Memorial Act - Confers United States citizenship upon alien members of the Armed Forces of the United States who were killed in action during the Vietnam hostilities, between February 28, 1961 and January 27, 1973. Requires the appropriate Secretary of the Armed Force in which such alien served to notify his surviving spouse, parents, and children of the citizenship conferred by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Grants a child adopted by a single United States citizen the same immigrant status as a child adopted by a United States citizen and his spouse. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(F))
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Provides for the classification under the Immigration and Nationality Act, as "special immigrants", alien veterans who served honorably in the United States Armed Forces, together with their spouses and children, for purposes of lawful admission into the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies for the education of children of migrant agricultural employees. Declares that the amount to which a local educational agency is entitled is equal to four times the local contribution rate times the full-time equivalent of the estimated number of migratory children. Directs that payments be made only upon application by the local agency, submitted through the State educational agency and approved by the Commissioner of Education. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year of such sums necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Makes applicable to persons from the Western Hemisphere specified provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to the adjustment of status of nonimmigrants to that of persons admitted for permanent residence. (Repeals 8 U.S.C. 1255(c))
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Provides that, a native or citizen of Cuba who fled that country subsequent to January 1, l959, and who (1) is physically present in any other country on the date of the enactment of this Act; (2) has not been firmly resettled; and (3) is otherwise admissible to the United States may be paroled into the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Extends the authority of the United States Postal Service to receive the fee of $2 for execution of an application for a passport. (Amends 22USC214nt).
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Expresses the support of Congress on behalf of the principle of free emigration for all people, and the efforts of the United States delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights toward achieving this goal.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Makes an alien who has been convicted for possession of marihuana eligible for an application for a visa and for admission into the United States after a hearing and upon such terms as the Attorney General prescribes. Permits the Attorney General, after a hearing and upon such terms as he may prescribe, to waive deportation of any alien who has been convicted for the possession of marihuana. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(23), 1251(b))
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Extends the program for health services for domestic agricultural migrant workers, under the Public Health Service Act, by authorizing appropriations for such program in the amount of $60,000,000 for fiscal year year 1974, $105,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $135,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes appropriations of a total of $155,000,000 for fiscal years 1973-1977 for hospital care to domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 242h)
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 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 · 18 April 1973
Provides for an increase, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, of the immigration of persons from Western Hemisphere nations. Provides that specified aliens illegally in the United States may have their status adjusted to that of permanent residents.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 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 10,000 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides for increased immigration from Western Hemisphere Nations under the Immigration and Nationality Act by removing the "special immigrant" restrictions placed on such immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Specifies conditions under which the Attorney General shall adjust the status of certain aliens who are illegally in the U.S. to that of permanent residents provided the alien is the spouse, parent, son or daughter of a U.S. citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is entitled to a preference status under the Immigration and Nationality Act; or entered the United States before June 30, 1948, and has been continuously present within the U.S. from the date of his entry until the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides for increased immigration from Western Hemisphere Nations under the Immigration and Nationality Act by removing the "special immigrant" restrictions placed on such immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Provides that Christopher Columbus shall hereafter be known as a citizen of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 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 the consideration of the bill (H.R. 982) 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 one hour, 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. Provides that it shall be 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. States 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 admendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 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.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Gives parents of U.S. citizens second preference status under the Immigration and Nationality Act. (Currently covered by this preference are spouses and unmarried sons or unmarried daughters of such aliens). Provides that such citizens must be at least 21 years of age. Provides that the number of aliens, exclusive of special immigrants, who may be issued immigrant visas shall not in any fiscal year exceed a total of 250,000. Provides that the number of immigrant visas made available to natives of any single foreign state shall not exceed 25,000 in any fiscal year. Increases from 1 percent to 3 percent the maximum number of immigrant visas available to a foreign state or the number of immigrants chargeable to a colony of a foreign state. Sets forth the method for allotting visas to aliens who are subject to numerical limitations. Provides that no more than two petitions for preference status may be approved for one petitioner in behalf of a child unless necessary to prevent the separation of brothers and sisters and no petition shall be approved if the alien has previously been accorded special immigrant or preference status as the spouse of a citizen of the United States or the spouse of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, by reason of a marriage determined by the Attorney General to have been entered into for the purpose of evading the immigration laws. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1154) Provides that the Attorney General may in his discretion admit to the United States any immigrant inadmissible solely because he was not entitled to the visa classification exempting him from the numerical limitation on visa issuance or the preference classification specified in the immigrant visa presented at the time of application for admission, or because he was not charged to the proper foreign state in such visa, if the Attorney General is satisfied that such inadmissibility was not known to and could not have been ascertained by the exercise or reasonable diligence by such immigrant prior to his departure for the U.S. (Adds 8 U.S.C. 1181(c))
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Provides that an alien who would be ineligible to receive a visa, pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, or would be excludable, for seeking to procure a visa by fraud or by willful misrepresentation of a material fact may be granted a visa and admitted to the United States, if otherwise admissible if the Attorney General, in his discretion, and pursuant to such conditions as he may by regulations prescribe, has consented to the alien's applying or reapplying for a visa and for admission to the United States. (Adds 8 U.S.C. 1182(J))
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Authorizes, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, visas for parents of permanent resident aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Extends the program for health services for domestic agricultural migrant workers, under the Public Health Service Act, by authorizing appropriations for such program in the amount of $60,000,000 for fiscal year year 1974, $105,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $135,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes appropriations of a total of $155,000,000 for fiscal years 1973-1977 for hospital care to domestic agricultural migratory workers and their families. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 242h)
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 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 · 28 March 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 10,000 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Changes the name of the Passport Office to the United States Passport Service. Transfers the functions of the Passport Office to the new agency which shall be under the Department of State. Establishes a fund for the Service to be capitalized by an initial appropriation of at least $20,000,000 to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Establishes a passport service to finance the operation of the Unied States Passport Service. Increases passport and renewal fees to bring them in line with increased service cost. Provides the new passport service with its own accounting and internal audit system, under periodic audits by the General Accounting Office.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Includes inspectors of the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Bureau of Customs within the provisions of law relating to civil service retirement of Government employees engaged in hazardous occupations. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8336(c))
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 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 10,000 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 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.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Disallows deductions from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for the salary paid to an alien illegally employed in the United States. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 280)
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Provides for increased immigration from Western Hemisphere Nations under the Immigration and Nationality Act by removing the "special immigrant" restrictions placed on such immigrants.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Includes inspectors of the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Bureau of Customs within the provisions of law relating to civil service retirement of Government employees engaged in hazardous occupations. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8336(c))
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Specifies conditions under which the Attorney General shall adjust the status of certain aliens who are illegally in the U.S. to that of permanent residents provided the alien is the spouse, parent, son or daughter of a U.S. citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is entitled to a preference status under the Immigration and Nationality Act; or entered the United States before June 30, 1948, and has been continuously present within the U.S. from the date of his entry until the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 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.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 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 10,000 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas.