[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4619 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4619

 To modify the requirements under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program 
 in order to permit an alien who joins a limited partnership after the 
    partnership's creation to qualify for a visa under such program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 24, 1998

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify the requirements under the Immigrant Investor Pilot Program 
 in order to permit an alien who joins a limited partnership after the 
    partnership's creation to qualify for a visa under such program.

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

SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF PILOT IMMIGRATION PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN 
              LIMITED PARTNERS.

    Section 610 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (8 U.S.C. 1153 
note; Public Law 102-395) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(d) For purposes of the pilot program established under 
subsection (a), the Attorney General shall consider an alien 
entrepreneur to have satisfied the requirements of section 
203(b)(5)(A)(i) or 216A(d)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
with respect to the establishment of a new commercial enterprise (and 
shall not terminate the permanent resident status of the alien under 
section 216A(b)(1)(B)(i) of such Act), if the alien's petition under 
section 204(a)(1)(F) or 216A(c)(1)(A) of such Act, respectively, 
contains facts and information demonstrating that--
            ``(1) the alien joined a limited partnership on or after 
        the date the partnership was established; and
            ``(2) the limited partnership is organized after October 1, 
        1992, for the purpose of conducting business within a 
        geographic area served by a regional center described in 
        subsection (a).''.
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