Visa Lottery Repeal Act
Bill: S.859 | Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, John (R-LA)
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Visa Lottery Repeal Act
This bill eliminates the diversity immigrant visa program, which makes available a limited number of visas for aliens from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States.

To terminate the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Visa Lottery Repeal Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1153) is amended by striking subsection (c).
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Title II of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 201--
                    (A) in subsection (a)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by adding ``and'' at 
                        the end;
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting a period; and
                            (iii) by striking paragraph (3); and
                    (B) by striking subsection (e);
            (2) in section 203--
                    (A) by striking subsection (c);
                    (B) in subsection (d), by striking ``subsection 
                (a), (b), or (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (a) or 
                (b)'';
                    (C) in subsection (e)--
                            (i) by striking paragraph (2); and
                            (ii) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
                        paragraph (2);
                    (D) in subsection (f), by striking ``subsection 
                (a), (b), or (c) of this section'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (a) or (b)'';
                    (E) in subsection (g), by striking ``subsections 
                (a), (b), and (c)'' and inserting ``subsections (a) and 
                (b)''; and
                    (F) in subsection (h)(2)(B), by striking 
                ``subsection (a), (b), or (c)'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (a) or (b)''; and
            (3) in section 204--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(1), by striking subparagraph 
                (I);
                    (B) in subsection (e), by striking ``subsection 
                (a), (b), or (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (a) or 
                (b)''; and
                    (C) in subsection (l)(2)(B), by striking ``section 
                203 (a) or (d)'' and inserting ``subsection (a) or (d) 
                of section 203''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
amendments made by section 2 shall take effect on the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
    (b) Selectees.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), any alien who 
registered for the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program and received 
notification before the date of the enactment of this Act that he or 
she has been selected to apply for a diversity immigrant visa under 
section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1153(c)) may submit an application for such visa under the applicable 
provisions of law in effect on the day before such date of enactment.
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