A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make additional immigrant visas available for immigrants from certain foreign countries, and for other purposes.

Provides under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that if in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1979, the total number of immigrant visas made available to immigrants from any foreign state under specified preference catagories under the Act was less than three-fourths of the average annual number of such visas made available to immigrants from such foreign state during the ten-fiscal-year period beginning July 1, 1955, there shall be made available to immigrants from such foreign state an additional number of visas for the succeeding fiscal year equal to the difference between the number of visas made available to them in the preceding fiscal year and three-fourths of such average number, except that the number of such additional visas made available in any fiscal year to immigrants from such foreign state shall not exceed ten thousdand. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1151)