Title: Landing Pass Extension Act of 2020
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Landing Pass Extension Act of 2020
This bill allows a qualified alien crew member of a vessel to obtain a permit to land temporarily in the United States for up to 180 days, where currently such permits generally do not allow for stays exceeding 29 days.
Specifically, an immigration officer may grant a crew member a 180-day landing permit if the officer is satisfied that the crew member (1) intends to depart within the prescribed period on a vessel other than the vessel the crew member arrived on, and (2) will perform ship-to-ship cargo transfer operations to or from a vessel engaged in foreign trade.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6558 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6558

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by extending the period of 
time for which a conditional permit to land temporarily may be granted 
to an alien seafarer engaged in ship-to-ship cargo transfer operations, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2020

Mr. Weber of Texas (for himself, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Young, and 
  Mr. Cloud) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by extending the period of 
time for which a conditional permit to land temporarily may be granted 
to an alien seafarer engaged in ship-to-ship cargo transfer operations, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Landing Pass Extension Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF TIME FOR A CONDITIONAL PERMIT TO LAND TEMPORARILY.

    Section 252 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1282(a)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``(a) No alien crewman'' 
                        and inserting ``(a)(1) No alien crewman'';
                            (ii) by striking ``he may'' and inserting 
                        ``the immigration officer may''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``his discretion'' and 
                        inserting ``the immigration officer's 
                        discretion'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) 
                as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively;
                    (C) in subparagraph (A), as redesignated--
                            (i) by striking ``twenty-nine'' and 
                        inserting ``29'';
                            (ii) by striking ``he'' each place such 
                        term appears and inserting ``the crewman''; and
                            (iii) by striking ``or'' at the end;
                    (D) in subparagraph (B), as redesignated--
                            (i) by striking ``twenty-nine'' and 
                        inserting ``29'';
                            (ii) by striking ``he'' each place such 
                        term appears and inserting ``the crewman'';
                            (iii) by striking ``one'' and inserting 
                        ``vessel or aircraft''; and
                            (iv) by striking the period at the end and 
                        inserting ``; or''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) 180 days, if the immigration officer is 
                satisfied that the crewman intends to depart, within 
                the period for which the crewman is permitted to land, 
                on a vessel other than the vessel on which the crewman 
                arrived and that the crewman will perform ship-to-ship 
                cargo transfer operations to or from any other vessel 
                engaged in foreign trade.
            ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
        period of admission for an alien who is a nonimmigrant under 
        section 101(a)(15)(C) in immediate and continuous transit 
        through the United States to a vessel performing ship-to-ship 
        cargo transfer operations shall be up to, but shall not exceed, 
        180 days.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (a)(1)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (a)(1)(A)''.
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