SEC. 2. NUMERICAL LIMITATION TO ANY SINGLE FOREIGN 
STATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 202(a)(2) of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1152(a)(2)) is 
amended— 
(1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ‘‘AND 
EMPLOYMENT-BASED’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘(3), (4), and (5),’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘(3) and (4),’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘subsections (a) and (b) of sec-
tion 203’’ and inserting ‘‘section 203(a)’’; 
(4) by striking ‘‘7’’ and inserting ‘‘15’’; and 
(5) by striking ‘‘such subsections’’ and inserting 
‘‘such section’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 202 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1152) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ‘‘both sub-
sections (a) and (b) of section 203’’ and inserting 
‘‘section 203(a)’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (a)(5); and 
(3) by amending subsection (e) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(e) SPECIAL RULES FOR COUNTRIES AT CEILING.— 
If it is determined that the total number of immigrant 
visas made available under section 203(a) to natives of 
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any single foreign state or dependent area will exceed the 
numerical limitation specified in subsection (a)(2) in any 
fiscal year, in determining the allotment of immigrant visa 
numbers to natives under section 203(a), visa numbers 
with respect to natives of that state or area shall be allo-
cated (to the extent practicable and otherwise consistent 
with this section and section 203) in a manner so that, 
except as provided in subsection (a)(4), the proportion of 
the visa numbers made available under each of paragraphs 
(1) through (4) of section 203(a) is equal to the ratio of 
the total number of visas made available under the respec-
tive paragraph to the total number of visas made available 
under section 203(a).’’. 
(c) COUNTRY-SPECIFIC OFFSET.—Section 2 of the 
Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992 (8 U.S.C. 1255 
note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘subsection 
(e))’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (d))’’; and 
(2) by striking subsection (d) and redesignating 
subsection (e) as subsection (d). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect as if enacted on September 
30, 2011, and shall apply to fiscal years beginning with 
fiscal year 2012. 
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(e) TRANSITION RULES FOR EMPLOYMENT-BASED 
IMMIGRANTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to the succeeding 
paragraphs of this subsection and notwithstanding 
title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1151 et seq.), the following rules shall apply: 
(A) For fiscal year 2012, 15 percent of the 
total number of immigrant visas made available 
under section 203(b) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1153(b)) shall be allotted to immigrants who 
are natives of a foreign state or dependent area 
that was not one of the two states with the 
largest numbers of natives obtaining lawful per-
manent resident status during fiscal year 2010 
under such section 203(b). 
(B) For fiscal year 2013, 10 percent of the 
total number of immigrant visas made available 
under such section 203(b) shall be allotted to 
immigrants who are natives of a foreign state 
or dependent area that was not one of the two 
states with the largest numbers of natives ob-
taining lawful permanent resident status during 
fiscal year 2011 under such section 203(b). 
(C) For fiscal year 2014, 10 percent of the 
total number of immigrant visas made available 
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under such section 203(b) shall be allotted to 
immigrants who are natives of a foreign state 
or dependent area that was not one of the two 
states with the largest numbers of natives ob-
taining lawful permanent resident status during 
fiscal year 2012 under such section 203(b). 
(2) PER-COUNTRY LEVELS.— 
(A) RESERVED
VISAS.—With respect to 
the visas reserved under each of subparagraphs 
(A) through (C) of paragraph (1), the number 
of such visas made available to natives of any 
single foreign state or dependent area in the ap-
propriate fiscal year may not exceed 25 percent 
(in the case of a single foreign state) or 2 per-
cent (in the case of a dependent area) of the 
total number of such visas. 
(B) UNRESERVED VISAS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—With respect to the 
immigrant visas made available under such 
section 203(b) and not reserved under 
paragraph (1), for each of fiscal years 
2012, 2013, and 2014, not more than the 
number of such visas calculated under 
clause (ii) shall be allotted to immigrants 
who are natives of any single foreign state. 
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(ii) CALCULATION OF NUMBER.—The 
numbers of visas calculated under this 
clause for a fiscal year is the number that 
is equal to 70 percent of the total number 
of immigrant visas made available under 
such section 203(b) for such fiscal year. 
(3) 
RULES
FOR
CHARGEABILITY.—Section 
202(b) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1152(b)) shall apply 
in determining the foreign state to which an alien is 
chargeable for purposes of this subsection. 
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