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[H.R. 429 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 429


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 25, 1998

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for special 
immigrant status for NATO civilian employees in the same manner as for 
               employees of international organizations.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``NATO Special Immigrant Amendments of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL IMMIGRANT STATUS FOR CERTAIN NATO CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 101(a)(27) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of subparagraph (J),
            (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (K) 
        and inserting ``; or'', and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
            ``(L) an immigrant who would be described in clause (i), 
        (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (I) if any reference in 
        such a clause--
                    ``(i) to an international organization described in 
                paragraph (15)(G)(i) were treated as a reference to the 
                North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO);
                    ``(ii) to a nonimmigrant under paragraph 
                (15)(G)(iv) were treated as a reference to a 
                nonimmigrant classifiable under NATO-6 (as a member of 
                a civilian component accompanying a force entering in 
                accordance with the provisions of the NATO Status-of-
                Forces Agreement, a member of a civilian component 
                attached to or employed by an Allied Headquarters under 
                the `Protocol on the Status of International Military 
                Headquarters' set up pursuant to the North Atlantic 
                Treaty, or as a dependent); and
                    ``(iii) to the Immigration Technical Corrections 
                Act of 1988 or to the Immigration and Nationality 
                Technical Corrections Act of 1994 were a reference to 
                the NATO Special Immigrant Amendments of 1997.''.
    (b) Conforming Nonimmigrant Status for Certain Parents of Special 
Immigrant Children.--Section 101(a)(15)(N) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(15)(N)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(or under analogous authority under 
        paragraph (27)(L))'' after ``(27)(I)(i)'', and
            (2) by inserting ``(or under analogous authority under 
        paragraph (27)(L))'' after ``(27)(I)''.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 24, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.