[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3348 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3348

Authorizing the designation of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece under the 
             visa waiver program under certain conditions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 1993

 Mr. Machtley (for himself, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Pombo, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Schumer, Mr. King, Mr. Blute, Mr. Dellums, and 
Mr. Lipinski) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
Authorizing the designation of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece under the 
             visa waiver program under certain conditions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZING THE DESIGNATION OF PORTUGAL, IRELAND, AND GREECE 
              UNDER THE VISA WAIVER PROGRAM UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

    The Attorney General and the Secretary of State may jointly 
designate Portugal, Ireland, and Greece as a pilot program country 
under section 217(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for a 
fiscal year, notwithstanding that its nonimmigrant visa refusal rates 
do not meet the requirements specified in such section, if the rate of 
refusals of nonimmigrant visitor visas for nationals of Portugal, 
Ireland, and Greece during the previous fiscal year was at least 1 
percentage point less than such rate in the second previous fiscal 
year.

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