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Union Calendar No. 296 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 560 
[Report No. 116–373, Part I] 
To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A Joint Resolution 
to approve the Covenant To Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, 
and for other purposes’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2019 
Mr. SABLAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
JANUARY 10, 2020 
Additional sponsors: Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CORREA, Mr. VARGAS, Mrs. 
RADEWAGEN, and Mr. BISHOP of Utah 
JANUARY 10, 2020 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
JANUARY 10, 2020 
Committee on the Judiciary discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 15, 2019] 
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A BILL 
To amend section 6 of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A 
Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish 
a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 
Political Union with the United States of America, and 
for other purposes’’. 
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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 ‘‘Northern Mariana Is-
lands Residents Relief Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LONG-TERM LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE COMMON-
WEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA IS-
LANDS. 
Section 6(e)(6)(B) of the Joint Resolution entitled ‘‘A 
Joint Resolution to approve the Covenant To Establish a 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Polit-
ical Union with the United States of America, and for other 
purposes’’, approved March 24, 1976 (48 U.S.C. 1806), is 
amended— 
(1) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘except in the 
case of an alien who meets the requirements of sub-
clause (VI) of clause (v),’’ before ‘‘resided continuously 
and lawfully’’; and 
(2) in clause (v)— 
(A) in subclause (IV), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 
and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in subclause (V), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘;’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(VI) was admitted to the Com-
monwealth as a Commonwealth Only 
Transitional Worker during fiscal year 
2015, and during every subsequent fis-
cal year beginning before the date of 
the enactment of the Northern Mariana 
Islands U.S. Workforce Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–218); or 
‘‘(VII) resided in the Northern 
Mariana Islands as an investor under 
Commonwealth immigration law, and 
is presently a resident classified as a 
CNMI-only nonimmigrant under sec-
tion 101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(15)(E)(ii)).’’. 
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