[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5063 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5063

  To amend the Immigration Act of 1990 to provide for complete use of 
      visas made available under the diversity transition program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 1994

 Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Immigration Act of 1990 to provide for complete use of 
      visas made available under the diversity transition program.

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

SECTION 1. COMPLETING USE OF VISAS PROVIDED UNDER DIVERSITY TRANSITION 
              PROGRAM.

    (a) Extension of Diversity Transition Program.--Section 132 of the 
Immigration Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-649) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting before the period at 
        the end of the first sentence the following: ``and in fiscal 
        year 1995 a number of immigrant visas equal to the number of 
        such visas provided (but not made available) under this section 
        in previous fiscal years''; and
            (2) in the next to last sentence of subsection (c), by 
        striking ``or 1993'' and inserting ``, 1993, or 1994''.
    (b) Administration of 1995 Diversity Transition Program.--
            (1) Eligibility.--For the purpose of carrying out the 
        extension of the diversity transition program under the 
        amendments made by subsection (a), applications for natives of 
        diversity transition countries submitted for fiscal year 1995 
        for diversity immigrants under section 203(c) of the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act shall be considered 
        applications for visas made available for fiscal year 1995 for 
        the diversity transition program under section 132 of the 
        Immigration Act of 1990. No application period for the fiscal 
        year 1995 diversity transition program shall be established and 
        no new applications may be accepted for visas made available 
        under such program for fiscal year 1995. Applications for visas 
        in excess of the minimum available to natives of the country 
        specified in section 132(c) of the Immigration Act of 1990 
        shall be selected for qualified applicants within the several 
        regions defined in section 203(c)(1)(F) of the Immigration and 
        Nationality Act in proportion to the region's share of visas 
        issued in the diversity transition program during fiscal years 
        1992 and 1993.
            (2) Notification.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of enactment of this Act, notification of the extension of the 
        diversity transition program for fiscal year 1995 and the 
        provision of visa numbers shall be made to each eligible 
        applicant under paragraph (1).
            (3) Requirements.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        law, for the purpose of carrying out the extention of the 
        diversity transition program under the amendments made by 
        subsection (a), the requirement of section 132(b)(2) of the 
        Immigration Act of 1990 shall not apply to applicants under 
        such extension and the requirement of section 203(c)(2) of the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act shall apply to such applicants.
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