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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2041
To provide that members of terrorist organizations are ineligible to receive
visas for admission to the United States, to improve the State Depart-
ment Visa Lookout System procedures, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 6, 1993
Ms. SNOWE (for herself, Mr. GILMAN, and Mr. MCCOLLUM) introduced the
following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on the Judici-
ary and Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To provide that members of terrorist organizations are ineli-
gible to receive visas for admission to the United States,
to improve the State Department Visa Lookout System
procedures, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Terrorist Interdiction
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. AUTOMATED VISA LOOKOUT SYSTEM.
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall implement
an upgrade of all overseas visa lookout operations to com-
puterized systems with automated multiple-name search
capabilities.
SEC. 3. NATIONAL CRIME INFORMATION CENTER.
For the purpose of access to the National Crime In-
formation Center and other Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion criminal records, with respect to functions involving
the processing of visas and passports and for other immi-
gration-related purposes the Department of State shall be
considered a law enforcement agency.
SEC. 4. MEMBERSHIP IN A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AS A
BASIS FOR EXCLUSION FROM THE UNITED
STATES UNDER THE IMMIGRATION AND NA-
TIONALITY ACT.
Section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(3)(B)) is amended—
(1) in clause (i)(II) by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the
end;
(2) by adding after clause (i)(II) the following:
‘‘(III) is a member of an organization
that engages in terrorist activity or who
actively supports or advocates terrorist ac-
tivity,’’;
(3) by adding after clause (iii) the following:
‘‘(iv) 
TERRORIST
ORGANIZATION
DE-
FINED.—As used in this Act, the term ‘terrorist
organization’ means an organization which com-
mits terrorist activity as determined by the At-
torney General, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of State.’’.
SEC. 5. PROCESSING OF VISAS FOR ADMISSION TO THE
UNITED STATES.
(a) VISA LOOKOUT SYSTEM CHECK.—
(1) Whenever a United States consular official
issues a visa for admission to the United States,
that official shall certify, in writing, that a check of
the Automated Visa Lookout System, or any other
system or list which maintains information about the
excludability of aliens under the Immigration and
Nationality Act, has been made and that there is no
basis under such system for the exclusion of such
alien.
(2) If a consular official issues a visa to an
alien for admission to the United States and the
alien was named on the Automated Visa Lookout
System as excludable from the United States at the
time of the consular officer’s review and issuance of
such visa, a notation shall be entered into the per-
sonnel file of such consular officer and such infor-
mation shall be considered as a serious negative fac-
tor in the officer’s annual performance evaluation.
(b) ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW BOARD.—In any case
where a serious loss of life or property in the United
States involves the issuance of a visa to an alien listed
on the Automated Visa Lookout System, or any other sys-
tem or list which maintains information about the exclud-
ability of aliens under the Immigration and Nationality
Act, the Secretary of State shall convene an Accountability
Review Board under the authority of title III of the Omni-
bus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986.
SEC. 6. CONGRESSIONAL REPORT.
The Secretary of State shall submit to the Congress
a report for each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 which
details the number and circumstances of each visa denial
due to the amendment made by section 4.
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