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105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3553
To amend the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act
to provide to nationals of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti
an opportunity to apply for adjustment of status under that Act, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 25, 1998
Mr. GUTIERREZ (for himself, Mr. BECERRA, Mrs. MEEK of Florida, Ms. WA-
TERS, Ms. SANCHEZ, and Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American
Relief Act to provide to nationals of El Salvador, Guate-
mala, Honduras, and Haiti an opportunity to apply for
adjustment of status under that Act, and for other pur-
poses.
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 ‘‘Central American and
Caribbean Refugee Adjustment Act of 1998’’.
SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN NATIONALS
FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, CUBA, AND THE
CARIBBEAN.
Section 202 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Cen-
tral American Relief Act (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) is amend-
ed—
(1) in the section heading, by striking ‘‘NICA-
RAGUANS AND CUBANS.’’ and inserting ‘‘NATIONALS
FROM CENTRAL AMERICA, CUBA, AND THE CARIB-
BEAN.’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ‘‘Nicaragua
or Cuba’’ and inserting ‘‘Nicaragua, Cuba, El Sal-
vador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Haiti’’; and
(3) in subsection (d)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘Nica-
ragua or Cuba;’’ and inserting ‘‘Nicaragua, Cuba, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Haiti;’’.
SEC. 
3. 
CONFORMING 
AMENDMENTS 
TO 
TRANSITION
RULES.
(a) SPECIAL RULE FOR CERTAIN ALIENS GRANTED
TEMPORARY PROTECTION FROM DEPORTATION.—Section
309(c)(5)(C)(i) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Im-
migrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1101 note),
as amended by section 203 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment
and Central American Relief Act, is amended by striking
subclauses (I) through (V) and inserting the following:
‘‘(I) is an alien who entered the
United States on or before December
31, 1990, who filed an application for
asylum on or before December 31,
1991, and who, at the time of filing
such application, was a national of the
Soviet Union, Russia, any republic of
the former Soviet Union, Latvia, Es-
tonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czecho-
slovakia, Rumania, Hungary, Bul-
garia, Albania, East Germany, Yugo-
slavia, or any state of the former
Yugoslavia;
‘‘(II) is the spouse or child (as
defined in section 101(b)(1) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act) of
an individual, at the time a decision is
rendered to suspend the deportation,
or cancel the removal, of such individ-
ual, if the individual has been deter-
mined to be described in subclause
(I); or
‘‘(III) is the unmarried son or
daughter of an alien parent, at the
time a decision is rendered to suspend
the deportation, or cancel the removal,
of such alien parent, if—
‘‘(aa) the alien parent has
been determined to be described
in this subclause (I); and
‘‘(bb) in the case of a son or
daughter who is 21 years of age
or older at the time such decision
is rendered, the son or daughter
entered the United States on or
before October 1, 1990.’’.
(b) TEMPORARY REDUCTION IN DIVERSITY VISAS.—
Section 203(d) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central
American Relief Act (8 U.S.C. 1151 note) is amended by
striking ‘‘subclauses (I), (II), (III), and (IV)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘subclauses (II) and (III)’’.
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