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[S. 1178 Engrossed Amendment House (EAH)]


  2d Session

                                S. 1178

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                               AMENDMENTS
                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                        March 25, 1998.

    Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1178) entitled ``An Act to amend 
the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the visa waiver pilot program, and 
for other purposes'', do pass with the following

                              AMENDMENTS:

            Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF VISA WAIVER PILOT PROGRAM.

    Section 217(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is amended by 
striking ``1998.'' and inserting ``2000.''.

SEC. 2. DATA ON NONIMMIGRANT OVERSTAY RATES.

    (a) Collection of Data.--Not later than the date that is 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 
implement a program to collect data, for each fiscal year, regarding 
the total number of aliens within each of the classes of nonimmigrant 
aliens described in section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) whose authorized period of stay 
in the United States terminated during the previous fiscal year, but 
who remained in the United States notwithstanding such termination.
    (b) Annual Report.--Not later than June 30, 1999, and not later 
than June 30 of each year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit 
an annual report to the Congress providing numerical estimates, for 
each country for the preceding fiscal year, of the number of aliens 
from the country who are described in subsection (a).

SEC. 3. QUALIFICATIONS FOR DESIGNATION AS PILOT PROGRAM COUNTRY.

    Section 217(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1187(c)(2)), is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) Qualifications.--Except as provided in subsection 
        (g), a country may not be designated as a pilot program country 
        unless the following requirements are met:
                    ``(A) Low nonimmigrant visa refusal rate.--Either--
                            ``(i) the average number of refusals of 
                        nonimmigrant visitor visas for nationals of 
                        that country during--
                                    ``(I) the two previous full fiscal 
                                years was less than 2.0 percent of the 
                                total number of nonimmigrant visitor 
                                visas for nationals of that country 
                                which were granted or refused during 
                                those years; and
                                    ``(II) either of such two previous 
                                full fiscal years was less than 2.5 
                                percent of the total number of 
                                nonimmigrant visitor visas for 
                                nationals of that country which were 
                                granted or refused during that year; or
                            ``(ii) such refusal rate for nationals of 
                        that country during the previous full fiscal 
                        year was less than 3.0 percent.
                    ``(B) Machine readable passport program.--The 
                government of the country certifies that it has or is 
                in the process of developing a program to issue 
                machine-readable passports to its citizens.
                    ``(C) Law enforcement interests.--The Attorney 
                General determines that the United States law 
                enforcement interests would not be compromised by the 
                designation of the country.''.

            Amend the title so as to read ``An Act to amend the 
        Immigration and Nationality Act to modify and extend the visa 
        waiver pilot program, and to provide for the collection of data 
        with respect to the number of nonimmigrants who remain in the 
        United States after the expiration of the period of stay 
        authorized by the Attorney General.''.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.