A bill to carry out the principles of the Helsinki Final Act pertaining to freedom of travel and emigration, by providing that aliens who are associated with certain political organizations or who advocate certain political beliefs shall not be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States, or deported from the United States, because of such association or beliefs.

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Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate from the classes of excludable and deportable aliens those aliens who: (1) are anarchists; (2) are opposed to organized government; or (3) are members or advocates of the Communist or a totalitarian party. Amends the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 to remove the prohibition against the application by a member of a Communist organization for a U.S. passport, and the issuance of a passport to such a member.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 19 April 1977

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