[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1638 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1638

     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that 
 petitioners for immigration classification on the basis of immediate 
relative status to a citizen shall be required to pay only one fee when 
              such petitioners are filed at the same time.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 1995

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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that 
 petitioners for immigration classification on the basis of immediate 
relative status to a citizen shall be required to pay only one fee when 
              such petitioners are filed at the same time.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON FEES FOR IMMEDIATE RELATIVE PETITIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 204(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new clause:
    ``(v) If an individual files one or more petitions under this 
subparagraph on behalf of more than one alien at the same time, the fee 
for filing all such petitions or aliens shall be the same as the fee 
for filing such one petition on behalf of one alien.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to petitions filed on or after the first day of the first month 
beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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