Prepared with the assistance of EDWARD G. GROSSMAN, Assistant Counsel, Office of the Legislative Counsel, House of Representatives

Chapter 1-Selection System (§§ 201-210A)...............

Chapter 2-Qualifications for Admission of Aliens; Travel Control of

Citizens and Aliens (§§ 211-218)..............

73

Chapter 3-Issuance of Entry Documents (§§ 221-224)

124

Chapter 4-Provisions Relating to Entry and Exclusion (§§ 231-240)......

Chapter 5-Deportation; Adjustment of Status (§§ 241-250).

129

139

Chapter 6-Special Provisions Relating to Alien Crewmen (§§ 251-258)..........

Chapter 7-Registration of Aliens (§§ 261-266).........

Chapter 1-Nationality at Birth and by Collective Naturalization (§§ 301-

309).....

241

Chapter 2-Nationality Through Naturalization (§§ 310-348)

Chapter 3-Loss of Nationality (§§ 349-357).........

[Miscellaneous provisions in title 8, U.S. Code, relating to

administration of the Immigration and Naturalization Service].

APPENDIXES

I. Selected Provisions of Title 18, United States Code

302

305

II. Excerpts From Recent Acts.........

313

A. Immigration Act of 1990, INA Provisions Superseded........

1. Immigration Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-649)..

313

313

2. Selected Provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act

Before Revision by the Immigration Act of 1990...........

3. Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Naturalization

Amendments of 1991 (Public Law 102-232) .........

356

379

B. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and SAVE

Provisions........

384

1. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-

603)......

384

2. System for Alien Verification of Eligibility (SAVE)....

C. Emergency Immigrant Education Act of 1984

405

412

D. Amerasian Immigration (§ 584 of the Foreign Operations, Export

Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988, Public

Law 100-202)......

E. Title IX of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years

1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100-204)...

F. Immigration Amendments of 1988 (Public Law 100-658)...............

G. Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-690)

H. Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs

Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101-167).........

I. Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-238).

IV

J. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991

(Public Law 101-246)............

431

K. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

(Public Law 102-138).............

432

III. Refugee-Related Provisions .........

A. Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (Public Law 87-510)

B. Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.

433

433

435

C. Geneva Convention Relating to Status of Refugees.

D. Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212)...

438

451

E. Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-422)

F. Refugee Assistance Extension Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-605)..

G. Cuban Political Prisoners and Immigrants (in Public Law 100-202)

IV. Current or Recent Alien Adjustment Provisions..........

A. Cuban Adjustment (Public Law 89-732)...............

454

462

464

467

467

B. Indochina Refugee Adjustment (title I of Public Law 95-145).

C. Conditional Entrants Adjustment (Former §§ 203(a)(7), 203(g), &

203(h) of the INA).........

467

468

D. Virgin Islands Nonimmigrant Alien Adjustment Act of 1982

(Public Law 97-271)...............

469

E. Cuban/Haitian Adjustment (§202 of Public Law 99-603).

F. EVD Adjustment of Status (title IX of the Departments of Com-

merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies

Appropriation Act, 1988, as contained in Public Law 100-202)...........

G. Soviet and Vietnamese Parolee Adjustment (section 599E of the

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs

Appropriations Act, 1990, Public Law 101-167).........................................

471

472

473

474

H. H-1 Nonimmigrant Nurse Adjustment (section 2 of the Immigra-

tion Nursing Relief Act of 1989, Public Law 101-238)..

V. Excerpts From Laws Relating to Commonwealths and Former

Territories..........

475

A. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

475

1. Public Law 94-241 (Covenant for Commonwealth of the North-

ern Mariana Islands).

475

2. Sections 19-24 of Public Law 98-213

477

B. Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands (Public

Law 99-239, Compact of Free Association Act of 1985.

479

C. Note on Palau....

483

A. Military Service.

VI. Chapter 15 of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement

VII. Description of Other Provisions Relating to Immigration or Treatment

of Aliens .........

B. Social Security Act Provisions

1. OASDI ..........

2. Social Security Account numbers.

3. AFDC....

485

491

491

491

491

491

492

VIII. Information Relating to Processing of Immigrants and Nonimmigrants...

A. Provisions of the Law and Numerical Limitations on Immigrant

Visas................

501

501

B. Allocation of Immigrant Visa Numbers.........

504

1. Operation of the Immigrant Numerical Control System.

2. Comparison of the Former Series of Immigrant Visa Catego-

ries and the Revisions Made by the Immigration Act of 1990.....

504

506