105TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 1178

AMENDMENTS
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

March 25, 1998.

Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1178) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act

to extend the visa waiver pilot program, and for other purposes’’, do pass with the following

AMENDMENTS:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1 SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF VISA WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM.

2 Section 217(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act

3 is amended by striking ‘‘1998.’’ and inserting ‘‘2000.’’.

4 SEC. 2. DATA ON NONIMMIGRANT OVERSTAY RATES.

5 (a) COLLECTION OF DATA.—Not later than the date

6 that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,

7 the Attorney General shall implement a program to collect

8 data, for each fiscal year, regarding the total number of

9 aliens within each of the classes of nonimmigrant aliens

10 described in section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Na11 tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) whose authorized pe12 riod of stay in the United States terminated during the pre13 vious fiscal year, but who remained in the United States

14 notwithstanding such termination.
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1 (b) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than June 30, 1999,

2 and not later than June 30 of each year thereafter, the At3 torney General shall submit an annual report to the Con4 gress providing numerical estimates, for each country for

5 the preceding fiscal year, of the number of aliens from the

6 country who are described in subsection (a).

7 SEC. 3. QUALIFICATIONS FOR DESIGNATION AS PILOT PRO8 GRAM COUNTRY.

9 Section 217(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality

10 Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(c)(2)), is amended to read as follows:

11 ‘‘(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—Except as provided in

12 subsection (g), a country may not be designated as a

13 pilot program country unless the following require14 ments are met:

15 ‘‘(A) LOW NONIMMIGRANT VISA REFUSAL

16 RATE.—Either—

17 ‘‘(i) the average number of refusals of

18 nonimmigrant visitor visas for nationals of

19 that country during—

20 ‘‘(I) the two previous full fiscal

21 years was less than 2.0 percent of the

22 total number of nonimmigrant visitor

23 visas for nationals of that country

24 which were granted or refused during

25 those years; and
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1 ‘‘(II) either of such two previous

2 full fiscal years was less than 2.5 per3 cent of the total number of non4 immigrant visitor visas for nationals

5 of that country which were granted or

6 refused during that year; or

7 ‘‘(ii) such refusal rate for nationals of

8 that country during the previous full fiscal

9 year was less than 3.0 percent.

10 ‘‘(B) MACHINE READABLE PASSPORT PRO11 GRAM.—The government of the country certifies

12 that it has or is in the process of developing a

13 program to issue machine-readable passports to

14 its citizens.

15 ‘‘(C) LAW ENFORCEMENT INTERESTS.—The

16 Attorney General determines that the United

17 States law enforcement interests would not be

18 compromised by the designation of the country.’’.
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Amend the title so as to read ‘‘An Act to amend the

Immigration and Nationality Act to modify and extend

the visa waiver pilot program, and to provide for the collection of data with respect to the number of nonimmigrants who remain in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Attorney

General.’’.

Attest:

Clerk.