A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve the administration of the immigration and nationality laws, and for other purposes.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant special immigrant status to religious functionaries who have been solely employed for the previous two years in a religious occupation by a nonprofit religious organization and who will be so employed in the United States by the same organization or denomination. Requires labor certification.
Establishes a ten-year waiting period for admittance into the United States for any alien excludable on grounds of moral turpitude, prostitution, immigration fraud, or conviction of two or more crimes totaling five years or more of imprisonment.
Held at the desk by unanimous consent. Pending further disposition.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Hearings Held Prior To Introduction on H.R.4823.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on The Judiciary. Report No: 99-904.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on The Judiciary. Report No: 99-904.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 546.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: Failed to Receive 2/3's Vote to Suspend and Pass by Yea-Nay Vote: 81 - 308 (Record Vote No: 421).
Roll Call #421 (House)Failed to Receive 2/3's Vote to Suspend and Pass by Yea-Nay Vote: 81 - 308 (Record Vote No: 421).
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