Northern Marianas Population Stabilization Act

Northern Marianas Population Stabilization Act

This bill provides Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Resident status to certain otherwise qualifying non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who do not meet a current requirement of having resided continuously and lawfully in the Northern Mariana Islands from November 28, 2009, through June 25, 2019.

Specifically, an individual shall be exempt from this residency requirement if the individual was admitted as a Commonwealth Only Transitional Worker during FY2015 and every subsequent fiscal year before July 24, 2018.

To qualify for CNMI Resident status, the individual must meet other existing requirements related to such status.

An individual who has resided in the Northern Mariana Islands as an investor and is currently residing as a Northern Mariana Islands-only nonimmigrant may receive CNMI Resident status upon meeting other requirements. 

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 560 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 560

     To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled ``A Joint 
 Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the 
 Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of 
                   America, and for other purposes''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 2023

  Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on 
    the Judiciary, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled ``A Joint 
 Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the 
 Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of 
                   America, and for other purposes''.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Northern Marianas Population 
Stabilization Act''.

SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN 
              MARIANA ISLANDS.

    Section 6(e)(6)(B) of the Joint Resolution entitled ``A Joint 
Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of 
America, and for other purposes'', approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 
1806), is amended--
            (1) in clause (iii), by inserting ``except in the case of 
        an alien who meets the requirements of subclause (VI) of clause 
        (v),'' before ``resided continuously and lawfully''; and
            (2) in clause (v)--
                    (A) in subclause (IV), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) in subclause (V), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``;''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(VI) was admitted to the 
                                Commonwealth as a Commonwealth Only 
                                Transitional Worker during fiscal year 
                                2015, and during every subsequent 
                                fiscal year beginning before the date 
                                of the enactment of the Northern 
                                Mariana Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 
                                2018 (Public Law 115-218); or
                                    ``(VII) resided in the Northern 
                                Mariana Islands as an investor under 
                                Commonwealth immigration law, and is 
                                presently a resident classified as a 
                                CNMI-only nonimmigrant under section 
                                101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigration 
                                and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
                                1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).''.

SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF BUDGETARY EFFECTS.

    The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying 
with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by 
reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that 
such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.
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