Northern Marianas Population Stabilization Act

Bill: 118-hr-560
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-01-26
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Foreign labor

Immigration status and procedures

Northern Mariana Islands
Latest action: action_date: 2023-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs .

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Northern Marianas Population Stabilization Act </b></p> <p>This bill provides Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Resident status to certain otherwise qualifying non-U.S. nationals (<i>aliens</i> under federal law) who do not meet a current requirement of having resided continuously and lawfully in the Northern Mariana Islands from November 28, 2009, through June 25, 2019. </p> <p>Specifically, an individual shall be exempt from this residency requirement if the individual was admitted as a Commonwealth Only Transitional Worker during FY2015 and every subsequent fiscal year before July 24, 2018.</p> <p>To qualify for CNMI Resident status, the individual must meet other existing requirements related to such status.</p> <p>An individual who has resided in the Northern Mariana Islands as an investor and is currently residing as a Northern Mariana Islands-only nonimmigrant&nbsp;may receive CNMI Resident status upon meeting other requirements.&nbsp;</p> <ul></ul>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 560 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 26, 2023 Mr. Sablan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources , and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary , and the Budget , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 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 .

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Northern Marianas Population Stabilization Act . 2. Long-term legal residents of the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands 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 Political 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 subclause (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: (VI) was admitted to the Commonwealth as a Commonwealth Only Transitional Worker during fiscal year 2015, and during every subsequent fiscal 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 section 101(a)(15)(E)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)(ii) ). . 3. Determination of budgetary effects The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.