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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jul 1, 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Technical Corrections of Immigration Laws Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1993 - Title I: Technical Corrections of Immigration Laws - (Sec. 101) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include qualifying employees of the American Institute in Taiwan under the definition of special immigrant. (Sec. 102) Extends the deadline for retired officers and employees of certain international organizations to file for special immigrant status. (Sec. 103) Treats Tibet as a separate foreign state for U.S. immigration purposes. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the Secretary of State to make refugee determinations under specified circumstances. (Sec. 105) Revises specified grounds for exclusion and deportation. (Sec. 106) Amends the Immigration Act of 1990 to make discretionary the existing mandatory labor market pilot program for employment-based immigrants. (Sec. 109) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit alien longshoremen to work in Alaska under specified circumstances. Revises provisions regarding: (1) transmission of citizenship to children born out of wedlock; and (2) automatic citizenship for certain children born outside the United States. (Sec. 115) States that approval by the Secretary of State of a certificate of loss of nationality shall constitute a final administrative determination of loss of U.S. nationality. (Sec. 117) Authorizes the Secretary of State to cancel any U.S. passport or consular report of birth which was fraudulently, illegally, or erroneously procured. (Sec. 120) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1976 to repeal a provision regarding priority dates for aliens registered on the Western Hemisphere waiting list. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 202) Amends Federal criminal law to increase penalties for specified acts of visa and passport fraud. (Sec. 203) Authorizes the transfer of certain real and personal property to the Border Patrol Museum and Memorial Library Foundation in Texas. (Sec. 204) Grants special immigrant status to certain aliens employed abroad by the American University of Beirut or by Beirut University College.
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Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] · D–MA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees.
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Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S8553-8557)
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