[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1304 Referred in House (RFH)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1304


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 1997

               Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
                  For the relief of Belinda McGregor.

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

SECTION 1. PERMANENT RESIDENCE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), Belinda 
McGregor shall be held and considered to have been selected for a 
diversity immigrant visa for fiscal year 1998 as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act upon payment of the required visa fee.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF NUMBER OF AVAILABLE VISAS.

    Upon the granting of permanent residence to Belinda McGregor as 
provided in this Act, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper 
officer to reduce by one number during the current fiscal year the 
total number of immigrant visas available to natives of the country of 
the alien's birth under section 203(c) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153 (c)).

            Passed the Senate November 8, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                    GARY SISCO,

                                                             Secretary.