States that, exclusive of special immigrants and the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, the number of aliens born in any foreign state or dependent area located in the Eastern Hemisphere who may be issued immigrant visas or who may enter conditionally, shall not in any of the first three quarters of any fiscal year exceed a total of 45,000 and shall not in any fiscal year exceed a total of 170,000. Provides that the number of aliens born in any foreign state of the Western Hemisphere (except a foreign state contiguous to the U.S.) or in the Canal Zone, or in a dependent area located in the Western Hemisphere who may be issued immigrant visas or who may enter conditionally, shall not in any of the first three quarters of any year exceed a total of 22,000 and shall not in any fiscal year exceed a total of 80,000.
Sets limits of 20,000 immigrant visas and conditional entries for aliens from a single non-contiguous, foreign state, and of 600 visas for aliens born in any dependent area.
Sets forth regulations governing the determination of status as a foreign state or dependent area by the Secretary of State.
Specifies visa numbers and percentages to be made available to: (1) qualified immigrants who are the unmarried sons or unmarried daughters of citizens of the United States; (2) qualified immigrants who are the spouses, unmarrried sons or umarrried daughters of a lawfully admitted alien who is a least 21 years of age; (3) qualified immigrants who are members of the professions or accomplished in the sciences or the arts; (4) qualifeid immigrants who are the married sons or daughters of citizens of the U.S.; (5) qualified immigrants who are the unmarried brothers or unmarried sisters of citizens of the U.S.; (6) qualified immigrants who are capable of performing skilled or unskilled labor, not of a temporary or seasonal nature, for which a shortage of employable and willing persons exists in the U.S.; (7) persons who because of persecution have fled from any Communist or Communist dominated country or from any country within the general area of the Middle East, or who are uprooted by catastrophic natural calamity as defined by the President; (8) other qualified immigants strictly in the chronological order in which they qualify; and (9) a spouse or child if accompanying, of following to join, his spouse or parent. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1151-53)
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Judiciary.
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