To provide that the Secretary of Homeland Security may not admit to the United States as a nonimmigrant under certain categories aliens who are nationals of noncompliant countries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-5461
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10]
Introduced: 2019-12-17
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-12-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Department of Homeland Security from admitting into the United States an alien as a nonimmigrant under certain visa categories, if the alien is a national of a country that is noncompliant as to repatriating its nationals who have been ordered removed from the United States.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5461 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 17, 2019 Mr. Perry introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To provide that the Secretary of Homeland Security may not admit to the United States as a nonimmigrant under certain categories aliens who are nationals of noncompliant countries, and for other purposes.

1. Limitation on the admission of nonimmigrants from noncompliant countries (a) In general The Secretary of Homeland Security may not admit to the United States as a nonimmigrant under any category listed in subsection (b) any national of a country that the Secretary has designated as noncompliant with respect to accepting the repatriation of nationals of that country who have been ordered removed from the United States under the immigration laws (as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 )). (b) Categories of nonimmigrant visas The categories listed in this subsection are subparagraphs (B), (F), (H), (I), (J), (L), (M), (O), (P), and (Q) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15) ).