[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2694 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2694

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney 
 General to continue to treat certain petitions approved under section 
 204 of such Act as valid notwithstanding the death of the beneficiary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 1997

  Mr. Gilman 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 authorize the Attorney 
 General to continue to treat certain petitions approved under section 
 204 of such Act as valid notwithstanding the death of the beneficiary.

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

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF CLASSIFICATION PETITIONS UPON DEATH OF 
              BENEFICIARY.

    Section 205 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1155) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The Attorney General'' and inserting 
        ``(a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Attorney 
        General''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Effect of Death of Beneficiary on Certain Petitions.--In any 
case in which a beneficiary of a petition filed under section 204 dies 
after the approval of the petition, the Attorney General may, for 
humanitarian reasons, disregard such death in applying the provisions 
of this Act to any spouse or child of the beneficiary.''.
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