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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3441 

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow the Secretary of 

State to make available to the public records pertaining to the refusal 

of a visa or permit based on an alien’s involvement in a violation 

of human rights or acts of significant corruption, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 24, 2019 

Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. WILSON of South 

Carolina, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. FITZPATRICK, and Mr. CURTIS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow 

the Secretary of State to make available to the public 

records pertaining to the refusal of a visa or permit 

based on an alien’s involvement in a violation of human 

rights or acts of significant corruption, and for other 

purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kleptocrat Exposure 

5 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. LIMITING CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 222(f) of the Immigration 

3 and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1202(f)) is amended— 

4 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking the period at 

5 the end and inserting a semicolon; 

6 (2) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the period 

7 at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘; and’’; and 

8 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

9 ‘‘(3) records pertaining to the refusal of a visa 

10 or permit of an individual alien, or any member of 

11 the individual alien’s immediate family who has at12 tained 18 years of age, may be made available to the 

13 public at the discretion of the Secretary of State in 

14 the case that such refusal is based on credible evi15 dence that— 

16 ‘‘(A) the individual alien is responsible for 

17 extrajudicial killings, torture, or other gross vio18 lations of internationally recognized human 

19 rights (as such term is defined in section 

20 502B(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961) 

21 committed against individuals in any foreign 

22 country who seek— 

23 ‘‘(i) to expose illegal activity carried 

24 out by government officials; or 

25 ‘‘(ii) to obtain, exercise, defend, or 

26 promote internationally recognized human 


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1 rights and freedoms, such as the freedoms 

2 of religion, expression, association, and as3 sembly, and the rights to a fair trial and 

4 democratic elections; 

5 ‘‘(B) the individual alien acted as an agent 

6 of or on behalf of a foreign person in a matter 

7 relating to an activity described in subpara8 graph (A); 

9 ‘‘(C) the individual alien is a government 

10 official, or a senior associate of such an official, 

11 that is responsible for, or complicit in, ordering, 

12 controlling, or otherwise directing, acts of sig13 nificant corruption, including the expropriation 

14 of private or public assets for personal gain, 

15 corruption related to government contracts or 

16 the extraction of natural resources, bribery, or 

17 the facilitation or transfer of the proceeds of 

18 corruption to foreign jurisdictions; 

19 ‘‘(D) the individual alien has materially as20 sisted, sponsored, or provided financial, mate21 rial, or technological support for, or goods or 

22 services in support of, an activity described in 

23 subparagraph (C); or 

24 ‘‘(E) the individual alien’s entry or pro25 posed activities in the United States would have 


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1 potentially serious adverse foreign policy con2 sequences for the United States as determined 

3 by the Secretary pursuant to subparagraph (C) 

4 of section 212(a)(3).’’. 

5 (b) APPLICATION.—This Act and the amendments 

6 made by this Act shall apply with respect to any applica7 tion for a visa or permit filed before, on, or after the date 

8 of enactment of this Act. 

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