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H.R. 847 (93rd)

A bill to provide for the redistribution of unused quota numbers.

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Introduced

3 January 1973

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Referred to House Committee on Judiciary.

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Summary

Provides that quota visa numbers not issued during fiscal year 1973, as determined and proclaimed by the Secretary of State shall be transferred to an immigration pool. Provides that visa numbers from the pool shall be made available during the two fiscal years following enactment of this Act (50 percent each fiscal year) to immigrants otherwise admissible under the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act from any foreign state which received during fiscal year 1968 less than the annual average number of immigrant visas issued during the ten-fiscal-year period prior to July 1, 1971, to such foreign state.

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