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101 records in 1987
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.
Germany · German Bundestag · 6 May 1987
Befragung der Flüchtlingsfrauen auf Wunsch nur durch weibliche Mitarbeiter, Ausschluß Dritter von der Befragung, Einsatz weiblicher Dolmetscher, Hinzuziehung einer weiblichen Vertrauensperson durch die betroffene Frau
Germany · German Bundestag · 5 May 1987
Berufung eines Vertreters des Zentralrates der Sinti und Roma in den Beirat für den Wiedergutmachungs-Dispositionsfonds, Bericht an den Bundestag, wie Wiedergutmachungsleistungen tatsächlich den Betroffenen zugute kommen, Änderung des Bundesentschädigungsgesetzes betr. Rentenzahlung sowie § 2 der Richtlinien für die Vergabe von Mitteln an Verfolgte nichtjüdischer Abstammung vom 26.8.1986 betr. Vergabe von Mitteln für Härtefälle, Zuerkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft bzw. eines Fremdenpasses, Ratifikation des Art.27 des Übereinkommens über die Rechtsstellung der Staatenlosen vom 28.9.1954, Anerkennung als ethnische Minderheit, Lösungen für die sozialen und statusrechtlichen Probleme der Sinti und Roma auf der Grundlage der Empfehlungen des Europarats Nr. 563 vom 30.9.1969, der Entschließung Nr. 76 (75) 13-Ministerkomitees vom 22.5.1975 und aufgrund der Empfehlung Nr. R. (93) des Ministerkomitees des Europarats vom 22.2.1983
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.
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 May 1987
Ausweisung AIDS-kranker oder -infizierter Stipendiaten
Germany · German Bundestag · 4 May 1987
Zusammenhang zwischen HTLV-Test und Immatrikulation, insbesondere bei Studenten aus den USA und afrikanischen Staaten
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.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 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 · 9 April 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 · 9 April 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 · 9 April 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 · 9 April 1987
Amends the Bilingual Education Act to authorize the inclusion under family English literacy programs of courses designed to enable aliens who are otherwise eligible for temporary resident status under the Immigration and Nationality Act to achieve a minimal understanding of ordinary English and a knowledge and understanding of the history and government of the United States as required by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1987
Indochinese Refugee Resettlement and Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a specific time period in which the President must consult with the Congress regarding emergency refugee admissions. States that the Secretary of State shall have sole authority to admit certain South Asian refugees. Prohibits denial of refugee status to aliens who are otherwise eligible for immigrant classification. Allocates a specified number of FY 1988 through 1990 refugee admissions for: (1) East Asians; and (2) the Orderly Departure Program (from Vietnam). Expresses the sense of the Congress that under the leadership of the United States renewed efforts should be made to settle Indochinese refugees who have lived in camps for at least three years. Allocates specified numbers of FY 1988 through 1990 East Asian entries for: (1) persons who have lived in refugee camps for at least three years; and (2) other camp residents. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allocate specified amounts from FY 1988 and 1989 authorizations for education, economic, and military training border projects in Thailand. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the international community should increase efforts to protect Indochinese refugee camps in Thailand from cross-border attacks, and that international personnel should be present on a 24-hour-a-day basis at camp "Site 2" in Thailand.
Germany · German Bundestag · 6 April 1987
Anerkennung des Genfer Flüchtlingsabkommens durch die Türkei nur in bezug auf Flüchtlinge aus europäischen Ländern, Möglichkeiten für politisch verfolgte Flüchtlinge aus dem Iran legal von der Türkei aus in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu gelangen
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the temporary admission into the United States of operators of (passenger) motor common carriers.
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 31 March 1987
Germany · German Bundestag · 27 March 1987
Beteiligung der guatemaltekischen Polizei an Folterungen und Morden an politischen Gegnern
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Legalization Family Unification Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the continuous residence requirement under the legalization program for parents of U.S. citizen children born after December 31, 1981, and before November 7, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1987
Legalization Family Unification Act - 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 · 23 March 1987
Indochinese Refugee Resettlement and Protection Act of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a specific time period in which the President must consult with the Congress regarding emergency refugee admissions. States that the Secretary of State shall have sole authority to admit certain South Asian refugees. Prohibits denial of refugee status to aliens who are otherwise eligible for immigrant classification. Allocates a specified number of FY 1988 through 1990 refugee admissions for: (1) East Asians; and (2) the Orderly Departure Program (from Vietnam). Expresses the sense of the Congress that under the leadership of the United States renewed efforts should be made to settle Indochinese refugees who have lived in camps for at least three years. Allocates specified numbers of FY 1988 through 1990 East Asian entries for: (1) persons who have lived in refugee camps for at least three years; and (2) other camp residents. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allocate specified amounts from FY 1988 and 1989 authorizations for education, economic, and military training border projects in Thailand. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the international community should increase efforts to protect Indochinese refugee camps in Thailand from cross-border attacks, and that international personnel should be present on a 24-hour-a-day basis at camp "Site 2" in Thailand.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1987
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Mediation Process Act of 1987 - Amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to require a person to pursue all administrative and mediation or conciliation avenues before bringing an action under such Act. Requires all administrative steps taken to be detailed in a complaint. Provides attorneys' fees for a defendant where the court determines that a plaintiff's action was unreasonable, abusive of the legal process, or was pursued for the principal purpose of harassment.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make additional immigrant visas available to aliens of a country whose modified average number of U.S. entry visas during 1956 through 1965 exceeded FY 1985 levels. Allocates such additional visas under the current preference category system. Allocates any remaining unused visas: (1) first, to such preference categories without regard to numerical limits; and (2) second, to nonpreference aliens not to exceed 5,000 per fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 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 · 12 March 1987
Border Management Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1987 - Title I: Border Management Consolidation - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Assistant to the President for Policy Development, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other concerned agencies, to develop and submit to the Congress within 180 days a plan which: (1) provides for the consolidation of border and entry inspection functions of the U.S. Customs and Immigration and Naturalization Services; and (2) sets forth a comprehensive border management policy. Makes such plan effective 60 days after submission to the Congress, unless disapproved during such period by a joint resolution. Requires completed implementation of such plan within one year of submission. Title II: Employee Overtime Compensation and Reimbursement - Amends specified Federal laws relating to overtime compensation for the U.S. Customs Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Title III: Effective Date - Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1987
Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Mediation Process Act of 1987 - Amends the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act to require a person to pursue all administrative and mediation or conciliation avenues before bringing an action under such Act. Requires all administrative steps taken to be detailed in a complaint. Provides attorneys' fees for a defendant where the court determines that a plaintiff's action was unreasonable, abusive of the legal process, or was pursued for the principal purpose of harassment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1987
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report - Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) within 60 days of enactment of this Act, begin an investigation concerning displaced nationals of El Salvador and Nicaragua; and (2) report to the Speaker of the House and to the President of the Senate within one year of initiating such investigation. Requires determinations to be made, with respect to displaced Salvadorans and Nicaraguans living in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, or Mexico of: (1) the number and location of such persons; (2) their place of origin in El Salvador or Nicaragua and the period of, and reason for, their displacement; (3) their current living conditions, with particular attention to questions of personal safety and the availability of food and medical assistance; (4) current efforts to provide such necessities; and (5) the impact of the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua. Requires assessments to be made, in the case of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans returned from the United States to their country, of: (1) their conditions upon return, with particular attention to any human rights violations; and (2) the extent to which these persons have become displaced persons in their country. Requires the investigation, with respect to Salvadorans and Nicaraguans unlawfully in the United States, to: (1) compare the situation in El Salvador and Nicaragua with previous cases of administrative grants of extended voluntary departure under the immigration laws; (2) describe U.S. policies respecting the treatment of other aliens in the United States in similar circumstances; and (3) describe the policies of all other countries in which Salvadorans or Nicaraguans have sought refuge as those policies concern the return of such persons to their country. Title II: Congressional Review - Provides for the referral of such report to the appropriate congressional committees for committee hearings (within 90 days of continuous session after the referral of such report) and committee reports (within 270 days of continuous session after the referral of such report). Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Prohibits the Attorney General from detaining or deporting aliens until the Congress completes its review of the Comptroller General's report of those aliens who: (1) are nationals of El Salvador or Nicaragua; (2) have been continuously present in the United States since before January 20, 1987; (3) are deportable on specified noncriminal grounds; and (4) have signed an agreement to voluntarily leave the United States at the end of such stay of deportation period. States that such period of stay of deportation shall not count as a period of physical presence in the United States for purposes of deportation suspension and status adjustment. States that during such stay of deportation period the alien: (1) shall not be considered to be permanently in the United States; (2) shall not be eligible for public assistance; and (3) may be deemed ineligible for public assistance by a State or any of its political subdivisions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise the definition of "child" to include a child under the age of 16 for whom one or both surviving parents are incapable of providing proper support. (Current law refers to sole or surviving parent only.)
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1987
Directs the Attorney General to provide for the naturalization of certain resident Filipino World War II veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1987
Afghan Adjustment Act of 1987 - Provides for the adjustment to permanent resident status of specified nationals of Afghanistan who have resided in the United States since January 1, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1987
Immigration Exclusion and Deportation Amendments of 1987 - 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) any alien with a communicable disease of public health significance; (2) any alien with a record of behavior or mental impairment that poses a threat to property or 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 who has engaged in terrorist activity; (7) any alien who participated in Nazi persecutions; (8) any alien deemed by the Attorney General as a probable security risk for certain specified reasons, including terrorist activity; (9) any alien who is likely to become a public economic burden; (10) any alien seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor, with certain qualified exceptions; (11) 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; (12) any excluded or deported alien who seeks readmission within one year of the event, unless such readmission is consented to by the Attorney General; (13) any alien seeking to enter the United States by fraud or the willful misrepresentation of a material fact; (14) any stowaway alien; (15) any alien who aids any other alien in illegal entry; (16) any immigrant not in possession of a valid immigrant visa and passport at the time of admission; (17) any nonimmigrant not in possession of a valid passport authorizing the alien to return to the country from which he or she came; (18) any alien ineligible for U.S. citizenship, including a person who left or remained outside the United States to avoid U.S. military service in time of war or national emergency; and (19) any alien who is a narcotic drug addict. Repeals the ideological grounds for exclusion. Permits a U.S. citizen or permanent resident denied an opportunity to meet with or hear in person an alien excluded from the United States on security grounds to seek judicial review of such denial in U.S. district court. 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 such status; (4) any alien admitted as a temporary agricultural worker (H-2A visa) whose status has been terminated (with family hardship exceptions); (5) any alien who within five years of entry knowingly and for gain has aided another alien to illegally enter the United States; (6) any alien admitted as an additional special agricultural worker who fails to show the necessary number of seasonal work days; (7) 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; (8) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude; (9) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted of a violation of certain drug laws; (10) any alien who is a narcotic drug addict; (11) any alien who at any time after entry is convicted under weapons-possession laws; (12) any alien who at any time is convicted on any of various specified loyalty laws (e.g. sabotage, treason and sedition, selective service, etc.); (13) any alien who fails to comply with alien registration laws or foreign agent registration laws; (14) any alien convicted of fraud or misuse of visas or other entry documents; (15) any alien engaging in activity which endangers the public safety or national security, including terrorist activity; (16) any alien who within five years after entry has become a public economic burden; (17) any alien who has engaged in terrorist activity; or (18) any alien who participated in Nazi persecutions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide religious sanctuary as a defense to the criminal offense of harboring or transporting aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt persons over 50 years old who have been U.S. permanent residents for at least 20 years from the "Government knowledge" naturalization requirement.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 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 · 3 February 1987
Confers U.S. citizenship posthumously upon Rudolph Salli.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1987
Rescinds budget authority for Immigration and Naturalization Service salaries and expenses (R87-62).
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the entry, as immediate relatives, of spouses, children, and parents of certain persons who died a service-connected death while on active duty in the U.S. armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1987
Calls upon the President to grant asylum in the United States to individuals who do not want to serve in the armed forces of South Africa because of the policy of apartheid.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1987
Naturalization Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) establish an administrative naturalization procedure; and (2) make such procedure the sole procedure for naturalization. Provides for: (1) appeal of a denied naturalization application to the Board of Immigration Appeals; and (2) review of such appeal in U.S. district court. Sets forth related administrative and conforming provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1987
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant special immigrant status to an alien service member (or veteran), and accompanying spouse and children, who enlisted outside the United States without first being admitted for U.S. permanent residence. Requires at least four years of honorable military service in order to qualify for such status.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1987
Title I: General Accounting Office Investigation and Report - Requires the Comptroller General to begin an investigation, within 60 days after enactment of this Act, concerning displaced nationals of El Salvador. Requires a report to the Congress within one year after initiation of such study. Title II: Congressional Review - Provides for the referral of such report to the appropriate congressional committees for committee hearings and committee reports. Title III: Temporary Stay of Deportation - Provides for a temporary stay of detention and deportation for certain nationals of El Salvador.