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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3510
To designate Angola under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act in order to make nationals of Angola eligible for temporary protected 
status under such section. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 18, 2003
Mr. LYNCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To designate Angola under section 244 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act in order to make nationals of Angola 
eligible for temporary protected status under such sec-
tion.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Angolan Temporary 
Protected Status Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Angola has just recently emerged from 41 
years of conflict, including a 14-year struggle for 
independence followed by 27 years of civil war. 
(2) As much as 1⁄3 of the population of Angola 
was displaced by warfare and now needs to be reset-
tled, amounting to some 4,000,000 internal and ex-
ternal refugees. 
(3) The government established by the Lukasa 
Protocol is currently struggling to meet the needs of 
its people in the face of continued unrest and food 
shortages. 
(4) National elections to create a freely elected 
government may still be several years away. 
(5) An insurgency group, the Front for the Lib-
eration of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), remains 
active in Cabinda province, where Amnesty Inter-
national has reported instances of human rights 
abuses such as indiscriminate killings, setting fire to 
villages, and rape. 
(6) The Department of State has identified An-
gola as a place of ‘‘considerable risk’’ for travel, due 
to banditry, extensive use of land mines during the 
war, and poor government infrastructure and secu-
rity capabilities.
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of the Congress that, in view of the 
difficulties facing the Angolan people in the aftermath of 
their civil war, Angola qualifies for designation under sec-
tion 244(b)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1254a(b)(1)(A)), pursuant to which Angolan 
nationals would be eligible for temporary protected status 
in the United States. 
SEC. 4. DESIGNATION FOR PURPOSES OF GRANTING TEM-
PORARY PROTECTED STATUS TO ANGOLANS. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of section 244 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1254a), Angola shall be treated as if it had been 
designated under subsection (b) of that section, sub-
ject to the provisions of this section. 
(2) PERIOD OF DESIGNATION.—The initial pe-
riod of such designation shall begin on the date of 
enactment of this Act and shall remain in effect for 
1 year. 
(b) ALIENS ELIGIBLE.—In applying section 244 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a) 
pursuant to the designation made under this section, sub-
ject to section 244(c)(3) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(3)), an alien who is a na-
tional of Angola meets the requirements of section 
244(c)(1) of that Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(1)) only if—
(1) the alien has been continuously physically 
present in the United States since the date of enact-
ment of this Act; 
(2) the alien is admissible as an immigrant, ex-
cept 
as 
otherwise 
provided 
under 
section 
244(c)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(2)(A)), and is not ineligible 
for temporary protected status under section 
244(c)(2)(B) of that Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(2)(B)); 
and 
(3) the alien registers for temporary protected 
status in a manner that the Secretary of Homeland 
Security shall establish. 
(c) CONSENT TO TRAVEL ABROAD.—The Secretary 
of Homeland Security shall give the prior consent to travel 
abroad described in section 244(f)(3) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(f)(3)) to an alien 
who is granted temporary protected status pursuant to the 
designation made under this section, if the alien estab-
lishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Se-
curity that emergency and extenuating circumstances be-
yond the control of the alien require the alien to depart 
for a brief, temporary trip abroad. An alien returning to
the United States in accordance with such an authoriza-
tion shall be treated the same as any other returning alien 
provided temporary protected status under section 244 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a).
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