CONTENTS Title I-General (§§ 101-106).... Chapter 1-Selection System (§§ 201-210A).. Chapter 2-Qualifications for Admission of Aliens; Travel Control of Citi- Page Title IV-Miscellaneous and Refugee Assistance: Chapter 1-Miscellaneous (§§ 401-407). Chapter 2-Refugee Assistance (§§ 411-414). [Miscellaneous provisions in title 8, U.S. Code, relating to ad- ministration of the Immigration and Naturalization Service]. Â. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and SAVE 1. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Public C. Amerasian Immigration (§ 584 of the Foreign Operations, IV. Current or Recent Alien Adjustment Provisions: A. Cuban Adjustment (Public Law 89-732).. B. Indochina Refugee Adjustment (title I of Public Law 95-145)... C. Conditional Entrant Adjustment (Former §§ 203(a)(7), 203(g), & E. Cuban/Haitian Adjustment (§202 of Public Law 99-603).. F. EVD Adjustment of Status (title IX of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1988, as contained in Public V. Excerpts from Laws Relating to Commonwealths and Former Territo- A. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: 1. Public Law 94-241 (Covenant for Commonwealth of the 2. Sections 19-24 of Public Law 98-213. B. Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands VI. Chapter 15 of the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement. VII. Description of Other Provisions Relating to Immigration or Treatment D. Food Stamp Act of 1977........... F. Housing Assistance Programs H. Educational Assistance Programs.. I. Unemployment Compensation Program.. VIII. Information Relating to Processing of Immigrants and Nonimmigrants: 3. List of Foreign States Subject to Annual Limitation of 4. List of Dependent Areas Subject to Annual Limitation of F. Offices Issuing Visas: 1. List of American Diplomatic and Consular Offices Issuing Visas..... 2. Alphabetical Listing of Visa Issuing Posts.... IX. Offices and Forms of Immigration and Naturalization Service: C. Forms of the Immigration and Naturalization Service X. Brief History of United States Immigration Policy... A. Summary B. Introduction C. Early Immigration D. 19th Century Immigration E. 1820-1880 F. The 1880s Through World War I G. The 1920s: Numerical Restrictions H. The 1930s and 1940s: Refugees and Braceros I. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 J. Refugee Admissions in the 1950s and 1960s K. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 and Their Aftermath L. The 1970s and 1980s: Immigration Issues, Review, and Revision M. Refugees and the Refugee Act of 1980 N. Illegal Immigration and the Immigration Reform and Control O. Legal Immigration P. Selected References Q. Table #1-Immigration by Region and Selected Country of R. Table #2-Refugees and Asylees Granted Lawful Permanent XI. Miscellaneous Lists and Tables relating to Immigration and A. List of United States Code Provisions Corresponding to Provi- B. Cross-references in law to provisions of the Immigration and C. List of Recent Legislation (1979-1988) Amending the Immigra- E. Table of Applicability of Grounds of Visa Ineligibility and Immigration and Nationality Act, As Amended through January 1, 1989* (ACT OF JUNE 27, 1952; 66 STAT. 163; 8 U.S.C. 1101 et. seq.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles, chapters, and sections according to the following table of contents, may be cited as the "Immigration and Nationality Act" [8 U.S.C. 1101, note]. TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE I-GENERAL Sec. 101. Definitions. Sec. 102. Applicability of title II to certain nonimmigrants. Sec. 103. Sec. 104. Sec. 105. Sec. 106. Powers and duties of the Attorney General and the Commissioner. Judicial review of orders of deportation and exclusion. Sec. 207. Annual admission of refugees and admission of emergency situation refu Sec. 209. Adjustment of status of refugees. Special agricultural workers. Sec. 210A. Determination of agricultural labor shortages and admission of additional special agricultural workers. CHAPTER 2-QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION OF ALIENS; TRAVEL CONTROL OF CITIZENS AND ALIENS Documentary requirements. General classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission; waivers of inadmissibility. Sec. 211. Sec. 212. Sec. 213. Admission of certain aliens on giving bond. Sec. 214. Admission of nonimmigrants. Sec. 215. Travel documentation of aliens and citizens. Sec. 216. Conditional permanent resident status for certain alien spouses and sons and daughters. * Material within brackets and footnotes and matter printed in 8 point type are not contained in the Immigration and Nationality Act, though they also may be shown in title 8, United States Code. The provisions of title 8, United States Code, have not been codified into positive law. For a proposed codification of such title into positive law in a structure significantly different from the current law, see H.R. 3321, as introduced in the 99th Congress. 1 |