To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain adopted children, and certain children coming to the United States for adoption, from the requirement to present documentation of vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain adopted children, and certain children seeking an immediate relative (as adopted children) immigrant visa, from the vaccination requirement.

[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 2430 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2430

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain adopted 
    children, and certain children coming to the United States for 
adoption, from the requirement to present documentation of vaccination 
                 against vaccine-preventable diseases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 8, 1997

 Mr. Delahunt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt certain adopted 
    children, and certain children coming to the United States for 
adoption, from the requirement to present documentation of vaccination 
                 against vaccine-preventable diseases.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXCEPTION FROM VACCINATION REQUIREMENT.

    Section 212(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(a)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting ``except as 
        provided in subparagraph (C),'' after ``(ii)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Exception for adopted children.--Subparagraph 
                (A)(ii) shall not apply to a child who is--
                            ``(i) described in section 101(b)(1)(F);
                            ``(ii) seeking an immigrant visa as an 
                        immediate relative under section 201(b); and
                            ``(iii) 10 years of age or younger at the 
                        time a petition is filed in the child's behalf 
                        to accord a classification as an immediate 
                        relative under such section.''.
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