Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1983

Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Control of Illegal Immigration - Part A: Employment - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make it unlawful to knowingly hire an unauthorized alien and to fail to comply with health or wage requirements regarding such employment.

Makes it unlawful to engage in a pattern or practice of such hiring activities. Provides civil and equitable administrative penalties for such violations.

Requires an employer to verify a potential employee's work status. Grants an individual administrative relief against an employer who fails to accept tendered employment documentation in good faith.

Directs the Attorney General to establish a task force to monitor such employment provisions.

Part B: Proper Enforcement and Services - Requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress an Immigration and Nationality Service operations (personnel and funding) plan for FY 1984 through FY 1986.

Requires the Secretary of Labor to submit to Congress an operations plan for enforcing the employment provisions of this Act for FY 1984 through FY 1986.

Authorizes supplemental appropriations through FY 1986.

Requires the Attorney General to take due and deliberate actions to safequard constitutional and civil rights.

Part C: Adjudication Procedures and Asylum - Establishes a United States Immigration Board (within the Department of Justice) to hear appeals from final decisions of immigration judges. Limits judicial review.

Revises asylum provisions. Replaces the special inquiry officers with a system of administrative law judges.

Authorizes FY 1984 appropriations.

Part D: Adjustment of Status - Prohibits adjustment of status to permanent resident for violators of nonimmigrant visa terms.

Part E: Commission on Immigration and International Development - Establishes a National Commission on Immigration and International Development to analyze social and economic conditions in the United States and abroad with regard to U.S. immigration problems and polices.

Directs the Commission to consult with the Mexican Government and advise the Attorney General regarding the temporary worker program.

Requires reports to the President and to the Congress. Terminates the Commission 30 days after submission of the final report (4 years).

Authorizes appropriations.

Title II: Reform of Legal Immigration and Naturalization - Part A: Immigrants - Revises numerical limitations. Permits 40,000 annual entrants each from Mexico and Canada. Sets forth "family reunification" and "independent" preference allocations, and an interpreference allocation guide.

Revises labor certification provisions.

Grants special immigrant status to certain family members of employees of international organizations.

Permits certain aliens in the United States whose immigrant visas will become available before October 1, 1984, to work.

Part B: Nonimmigrants - Separates temporary agricultural labor from other labor for purposes of nonimmigrant worker provisions.

Limits (H-2 visa) temporary workers to a miximum eight-month stay per year, except for agricultural workers who may stay for more than one year if previously so allowed.

Requires an employer H-2 visa petition to certify that: (1) there are not enough local U.S. workers for the job; and (2) similarly employed U.S. workers' wages will not be adversely affected.

Sets forth application and certification provisions.

Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of Agriculture, to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1984 to recruit domestic workers and monitor the nonimmigrant worker program.

Authorizes the Attorney General to waive the two-year foreign residence requirement for status adjustment to immigrant (or for nonimmigrant trainees) for specified numbers of students with certain high technology degrees. Prohibits other foreign students (except those who are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens) and visitors admitted under the visa waiver program from adjusting to immigrant status.

Authorizes a three-year pilot visa program.

Part C: Naturalization - Waives the English language requirement for persons over 50 years old. Revises naturalization-through-military service residency requirements.

Title III: Legalization - Provides for the legalization (permanent or temporary resident status) of certain aliens who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and who have continuously resided illegally in this country since entry. Authorizes FY 1984 appropriations for such program. Requires the President to report to Congress within 18 months regarding such program.