A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make additional immigrant visas available for immigrants from certain foreign countries.

Summary

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to state that if in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1979, the total number of immigrant visas made available to immigrants from any foreign state under specified preference categories was less than three-fourths of the average annual number of such visas made available to immigrants from such foreign state during the ten-fiscal-year period beginning on July 1, 1955, there shall be made available to immigrants from such foreign state an additional number of visas for the succeeding fiscal year equal to the difference between the number of visas made available to them in the preceding year and three-fourths of such average number, up to a maximum of 10,000 additional visas. Sets forth the priorities for making such additional visas available.

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Timeline

1. 4 January 1977

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 4 January 1977

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 4 January 1977

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 January 1977

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Sponsors

• Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17] · D · Sponsor
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