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‘‘(1) by striking the third sentence; and
‘‘(2) in the fourth sentence, by striking ‘If neither
the Senate nor the House of Representatives passes such
a resolution within the time above specified the’ and in-
serting ‘The’.
‘‘SEC. 208. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR REFU-
GEE ASSISTANCE FOR FISCAL YEARS 1995, 1996,
AND 1997.
‘‘Section 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1524(a)) is amended by striking ‘fiscal year 1993
and fiscal year 1994’ and inserting ‘fiscal year 1995, fiscal
year 1996, and fiscal year 1997’.
‘‘SEC. 209. FINES FOR UNLAWFUL BRINGING OF ALIENS INTO
THE UNITED STATES.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 273 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1323) is amended—
‘‘(1) in subsections (b) and (d) by striking ‘the sum
of $3000’ and inserting ‘a fine of $3000’ each place it
appears;
‘‘(2) in the first sentence of subsection (b) by strik-
ing ‘a sum equal’ and inserting ‘an amount equal’;
‘‘(3) in the second sentence of subsection (d) by
striking ‘a sum sufficient to cover such fine’ and insert-
ing ‘an amount sufficient to cover such fine’;
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‘‘(4) by striking ‘sum’ and ‘sums’ each place either
appears and inserting ‘fine’;
‘‘(5) in subsection (c) by striking ‘Such’ and insert-
ing ‘Except as provided in subsection (e), such’; and
‘‘(6) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘ ‘(e) A fine under this section may be reduced, re-
funded, or waived under such regulations as the Attorney
General shall prescribe in cases in which—
‘‘ ‘(1) the carrier demonstrates that it had screened
all passengers on the vessel or aircraft in accordance
with procedures prescribes by the Attorney General, or
‘‘ ‘(2) circumstances exist that the Attorney General
determines would justify such reduction, refund, or waiv-
er.’.
‘‘(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this
subsection shall apply with respect to aliens brought to the
United States more than 60 days after the date of enactment
of this Act.
‘‘SEC. 210. EXTENSION OF VISA WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM.
‘‘Section 217(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1187(f)) is amended by striking ‘ending’ and all
that follows through the period and inserting ‘ending on Sep-
tember 30, 1996’.
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‘‘SEC. 211. CREATION OF PROBATIONARY STATUS FOR PARTICI-
PANT COUNTRIES IN THE VISA WAIVER PROGRAM.
‘‘Section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. 1187) is amended—
‘‘(1) in subsection (a)(2)(B) by inserting before the
period ‘or is designated as a pilot program country with
probationary status under subsection (g)’;
‘‘(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘ ‘(g) PILOT PROGRAM COUNTRY WITH PROBATIONARY
STATUS.—
‘‘ ‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the
Secretary of State acting jointly may designate any
country as a pilot program country with probationary
status if it meets the requirements of paragraph (2).
‘‘ ‘(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—A country may not be
designated as a pilot program country with probationary
status unless the following requirements are met:
‘‘ ‘(A) NONIMMIGRANT
VISA
REFUSAL
RATE
FOR PREVIOUS 2-YEAR PERIOD.—The average num-
ber of refusals of nonimmigrant visitor visas for na-
tionals of the country during the two previous full
fiscal years was less than 3.5 percent of the total
number of nonimmigrant visitor visas for nationals
of that country which were granted or refused dur-
ing those years.
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‘‘ ‘(B) NONIMMIGRANT
VISA
REFUSAL
RATE
FOR PREVIOUS YEAR.—The number of refusals of
nonimmigrant visitor visas for nationals of the
country during the previous full fiscal year was less
than 3 percent of the total number of nonimmigrant
visitor visas for nationals of that country which
were granted or refused during that year.
‘‘ ‘(C) LOW
EXCLUSIONS
AND
VIOLATIONS
RATE FOR PREVIOUS YEAR.—The sum of—
‘‘ ‘(i) the total number of nationals of that
country who were excluded from admission or
withdrew their application for admission during
the preceding fiscal year as a nonimmigrant
visitor, and
‘‘ ‘(ii) the total number of nationals of
that country who were admitted as non-
immigrant visitors during the preceding fiscal
year and who violated the terms of such admis-
sion,
was less than 1.5 percent of the total number of na-
tionals of that country who applied for admission as
nonimmigrant visitors during the preceding fiscal
year.
‘‘ ‘(D) MACHINE
READABLE
PASSPORT
PRO-
GRAM.—The government of the country certifies
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that it has or is in the process of developing a pro-
gram to issue machine-readable passports to its citi-
zens.
‘‘ ‘(3) CONTINUING AND SUBSEQUENT QUALIFICA-
TIONS FOR PILOT PROGRAM COUNTRIES WITH PROBA-
TIONARY STATUS.—The designation of a country as a
pilot program country with probationary status shall ter-
minate if either of the following occurs:
‘‘ ‘(A) The sum of—
‘‘ ‘(i) the total number of nationals of that
country who were excluded from admission or
withdrew their application for admission during
the preceding fiscal year as a nonimmigrant
visitor, and
‘‘ ‘(ii) the total number of nationals of
that country who were admitted as visitors
during the preceding fiscal year and who vio-
lated the terms of such admission,
is more than 2.0 percent of the total number of na-
tionals of that country who applied for admission as
nonimmigrant visitors during the preceding fiscal
year.
‘‘ ‘(B) The country is not designated as a pilot
program country under subsection (c) within 3 fis-
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cal years of its designation as a pilot program coun-
try with probationary status under this subsection.
‘‘ ‘(4) DESIGNATION OF PILOT PROGRAM COUNTRIES
WITH PROBATIONARY STATUS AS PILOT PROGRAM COUN-
TRIES.—In the case of a country which was a pilot pro-
gram country with probationary status in the preceding
fiscal year, a country may be designated by the Attorney
General and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, as a
pilot program country under subsection (c) if—
‘‘ ‘(A) the total of the number of nationals of
that country who were excluded from admission or
withdrew their application for admission during the
preceding fiscal year as a nonimmigrant visitor, and
‘‘ ‘(B) the total number of nationals of that
country who were admitted as nonimmigrant visi-
tors during the preceding fiscal year and who vio-
lated the terms of such admission,
was less than 2 percent of the total number of nationals
of that country who applied for admission as non-
immigrant visitors during such preceding fiscal year.’;
and
‘‘(3) in subsection (c)(2) by striking ‘A country’ and
inserting ‘Except as provided in subsection (g)(4), a
country’.
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‘‘SEC. 212. TECHNICAL CHANGES TO NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS
CONCERNING CERTAIN SPECIAL IMMIGRANTS.
‘‘(a) PANAMA CANAL SPECIAL IMMIGRANTS.—Section
3201 of the Panama Canal Act of 1979 (Public Law 96–70)
is amended by striking subsection (c).
‘‘(b) ARMED FORCES SPECIAL IMMIGRANTS.—Section
203(b)(6) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1153(b)(6)) is amended by striking subparagraph (C).
‘‘SEC. 213. EXTENSION OF TELEPHONE EMPLOYMENT VERIFICA-
TION SYSTEM.
‘‘Section 274A(d)(4)(A) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(d)(4)(A)) is amended in the second
sentence by striking ‘three’ and inserting ‘five’.
‘‘SEC. 214. EXTENSION OF EXPANDED DEFINITION OF SPECIAL
IMMIGRANT FOR RELIGIOUS WORKERS.
‘‘Section 101(a)(27)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(C)(ii)) is amended—
‘‘(1) in subclause (II) by striking ‘1994,’ and insert-
ing ‘1997,’; and
‘‘(2) in subclause (III) by striking ‘1994,’ and in-
serting ‘1997,’.
‘‘SEC. 215. EXTENSION OF OFF-CAMPUS WORK AUTHORIZATION
FOR STUDENTS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 221 of the Immigration Act
of 1990 (Pub. Law 101–649; 104 Stat. 4978) as amended
by section 303(b)(1) of the Miscellaneous and Technical Im-
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migration and Naturalization Amendments of 1991 (Pub.
Law 102–232; 105 Stat. 1747) is amended—
‘‘(1) in the heading for subsection (a) by striking
‘3-YEAR’ and inserting ‘5-YEAR’;
‘‘(2) in subsection (a) by striking ‘3-year’ and in-
serting ‘5-year’; and
‘‘(3) in subsection (b) by striking ‘1994,’ and in-
serting ‘1996,’.
‘‘SEC. 216. ELIMINATING OBLIGATION OF CARRIERS TO DETAIN
STOWAWAYS.
‘‘The first sentence of section 273(d) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1323(d)) is amended to read
as follows: ‘The owner, charterer, agent, consignee, command-
ing officer, or master of any vessel or aircraft arriving at the
United States from any place outside the United States who
fails to deport any alien stowaway on the vessel or aircraft
on which such stowaway arrived or on another vessel or air-
craft at the expense of the vessel or aircraft on which such
stowaway arrived when required to do so by an immigration
officer, shall pay to the Commissioner the sum of $3,000 for
each alien stowaway, in respect of whom any such failure oc-
curs.’.
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‘‘SEC. 217. COMPLETING USE OF VISAS PROVIDED UNDER DI-
VERSITY TRANSITION PROGRAM.
‘‘(a) EXTENSION
OF
DIVERSITY
TRANSITION
PRO-
GRAM.—Section 132 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Public
Law 101–649) is amended—
‘‘(1) in subsection (a), by inserting before the pe-
riod at the end of the first sentence the following: ‘and
in fiscal year 1995 a number of immigrant visas equal
to the number of such visas provided (but not made
available) under this section in previous fiscal years’;
and
‘‘(2) in the next to last sentence of subsection (c),
by striking ‘or 1993’ and inserting ‘, 1993, or 1994’.
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION OF 1995 DIVERSITY TRANSITION
PROGRAM.—
‘‘(1) ELIGIBILITY.—For the purpose of carrying out
the extension of the diversity transition program under
the amendments made by subsection (a), applications for
natives of diversity transition countries submitted for fis-
cal year 1995 for diversity immigrants under section
203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be
considered applications for visas made available for fiscal
year 1995 for the diversity transition program under
section 132 of the Immigration Act of 1990. No applica-
tion period for the fiscal year 1995 diversity transition
program shall be established and no new applications
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may be accepted for visas made available under such
program for fiscal year 1995. Applications for visas in
excess of the minimum available to natives of the coun-
try specified in section 132(c) of the Immigration Act of
1990 shall be selected for qualified applicants within the
several regions defined in section 203(c)(1)(F) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act in proportion to the re-
gion’s share of visas issued in the diversity transition
program during fiscal years 1992 and 1993.
‘‘(2) NOTIFICATION.—Not later than 180 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, notification of the ex-
tension of the diversity transition program for fiscal year
1995 and the provision of visa numbers shall be made
to each eligible applicant under paragraph (1).
‘‘(3) REQUIREMENTS.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, for the purpose of carrying out the
extention of the diversity transition program under the
amendments made by subsection (a), the requirement of
section 132(b)(2) of the Immigration Act of 1990 shall
not apply to applicants under such extension and the re-
quirement of section 203(c)(2) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act shall apply to such applicants.
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‘‘SEC. 218. EFFECT ON PREFERENCE DATE OF APPLICATION
FOR LABOR CERTIFICATION.
‘‘Section 161(c)(1) of the Immigration Act of 1990
(Public Law 101–649) is amended—
‘‘(1) by striking ‘or an application for labor certifi-
cation before such date under section 212(a)(14)’; and
‘‘(2) in subparagraph (A)—
‘‘(A) by striking ‘or application’; and
‘‘(B) by striking ‘, or 60 days after the date
of certification in the case of labor certifications
filed in support of the petition under section
212(a)(14) of such Act before October 1, 1991, but
not certified until after October 1, 1993’.
‘‘SEC. 219. OTHER MISCELLANEOUS AND TECHNICAL CORREC-
TIONS TO IMMIGRATION-RELATED PROVISIONS.
‘‘(a) Section 101(a)(27)(J)(i) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)(i)) is amended by
striking ‘and has’ and inserting ‘or whom such a court has
legally committed to, or placed under the custody of, an agen-
cy or department of a State and who has’.
‘‘(b)(1) The second sentence of section 201(b)(2)(A)(i)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
1151(b)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by inserting ‘(and each child of
the alien)’ after ‘the alien’.
‘‘(2) The second sentence of section 204(a)(1)(A) of
such Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)) is amended—
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‘‘(A) by inserting ‘spouse’ after ‘alien’, and
‘‘(B) by inserting ‘of the alien (and the alien’s chil-
dren)’ after ‘for classification’.
‘‘(c) Section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration and National-
ity Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(5)) is amended by striking
‘TARGETTED’, ‘TARGETTED’, and ‘targetted’ each place each
appears and inserting ‘TARGETED’, ‘TARGETED’, and ‘tar-
geted’, respectively.
‘‘(d) Section 210(d)(3) of the Immigration and National-
ity Act (8 U.S.C. 1160(d)(3)) is amended by inserting ‘the’
before ‘Service’ the first place it appears.
‘‘(e) Section 212(d)(11) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(11)) is amended by striking ‘vol-
untary’ and inserting ‘voluntarily’.
‘‘(f) Section 258 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
(8 U.S.C. 1288) is amended in subsection (d)(3)(B) by strik-
ing ‘subparagraph (A)’ and inserting ‘subparagraph (A)(iii)’.
‘‘(g) Section 241(c) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1251(c)) is amended by striking ‘or (3)(A) of
subsection 241(a)’ and inserting ‘and (3)(A) of subsection
(a)’.
‘‘(h) Section 242(h) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1252(h)) is amended by striking ‘Parole,,’ and
inserting ‘Parole,’.
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‘‘(i) Section 242B(c)(1) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1252b(c)(1)) is amended by striking the
comma after ‘that’.
‘‘(j) Section 244A(c)(2)(A)(iii)(III) of the Immigration
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(c)(2)(A)(iii)(III)) is
amended—
‘‘(1) by striking ‘Paragraphs’ and inserting ‘para-
graphs’, and
‘‘(2) by striking ‘or (3)(E)’ and inserting ‘and
(3)(E)’.
‘‘(k) Section 245(h)(2)(B) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255(h)(2)(B)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘or (3)(E)’ and inserting ‘and (3)(E)’.
‘‘(l)(1) Subparagraph (C) of section 245A(c)(7) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255a(c)(7)), as
added by Public Law 102–140, is amended—
‘‘(A) by indenting it 2 additional ems to the right;
and
‘‘(B) by striking ‘subsection (B)’ and inserting ‘sub-
paragraph (B)’.
‘‘(2) Section 610(b) of Public Law 102–140 is amended
by striking ‘404(b)(2)(ii)’ and ‘404(b)(2)(iii)’ and inserting
‘404(b)(2)(A)(ii)’ and ‘404(b)(2)(A)(iii)’, respectively.
‘‘(m) Effective as of the date of the enactment of this
Act, section 246(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act