SEC. 5. INADMISSIBILITY OF CERTAIN ALIENS. 
(a) INELIGIBILITY FOR VISAS.—No individual who is 
included on the most recent list required under section 
4(a)(2) may be eligible to receive a visa to enter the 
United States or be admitted to the United States if the 
Secretary of State determines that— 
(1)(A) the requirement for specific official per-
mission for foreigners to enter the Tibetan Autono-
mous Region remains in effect; or 
(B) such requirement has been replaced by a 
regulation that has a similar effect and requires for-
eign travelers to gain a level of permission to enter 
the Tibet Autonomous Region that is not required 
for travel to other provinces in China; and 
(2) restrictions on travel by officials, journal-
ists, and citizens of the United States to areas des-
ignated as ‘‘Tibetan Autonomous’’ in the provinces 
of Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, and Gansu of China 
are greater than any restrictions on travel by such 
officials and citizens to areas in such provinces that 
are not so designated. 
(b) CURRENT VISAS REVOKED.—The Secretary of 
State shall revoke, in accordance with section 221(i) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), 
the visa or other documentation to enter or be present in 
the United States issued for an alien who would be ineli-
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gible to receive such a visa or documentation under sub-
section (a). 
(c) WAIVER FOR NATIONAL INTERESTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of State may 
waive the application of subsection (a) or (b) in the 
case of an alien if the Secretary determines that 
such a waiver— 
(A) is necessary to permit the United 
States to comply with the Agreement Regarding 
the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed 
at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered 
into force November 21, 1947 (TIAS 1676), or 
any other applicable international obligation of 
the United States; or 
(B) is in the national security interests of 
the United States. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—Upon granting a waiver 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall 
submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a document detailing the evidence and justification 
for the necessity of such waiver, including, if such 
waiver is granted pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), 
how such waiver relates to the national security in-
terests of the United States. 
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SEC. 6. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON VISA POLICY. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that reciprocity forms 
the basis of diplomatic law and the practice of mutual ex-
changes between countries. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) a country should give equivalent consular 
access to the nationals of a foreign country in a 
manner that is reciprocal to the consular access 
granted by such foreign country to citizens of the 
country; and 
(2) the Secretary of State, when granting dip-
lomats from China access to parts of the United 
States, should take into account the extent to which 
the Government of China grants diplomats from the 
United States access to parts of China, including the 
level of access afforded to such diplomats to Tibetan 
areas. 
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