A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the annual review of immigrant student visas, for the automatic review of such a visa whenever the student is convicted of a criminal offense, and to make a nonimmigrant student who is convicted of a criminal offense subject to deportation.

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Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General: (1) to annually review the status of foreign students in the United States; and (2) to determine whether any such foreign student convicted of a crime in the United States should be deported. Includes within the categories of deportable aliens foreign students convicted of any crime in the United States.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 9 November 1979

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