[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2662 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2662

     To provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of 
 intracompany transferees, if the United States has an agreement with 
 the country of which the transferee is a national under which United 
        States nationals will be afforded reciprocal treatment.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 1999

   Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. Rush, Mr. Evans, Mrs. 
Morella, Mr. Kolbe, Mr. Frost, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Pastor, 
 Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Dreier, Mr. Boehner, Mrs. Christensen, 
 and Mr. Snyder) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for work authorization for nonimmigrant spouses of 
 intracompany transferees, if the United States has an agreement with 
 the country of which the transferee is a national under which United 
        States nationals will be afforded reciprocal treatment.

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

SECTION 1. WORK AUTHORIZATION FOR SPOUSES OF INTRACOMPANY TRANSFEREES.

    Section 214(c)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(c)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(E) In the case of an alien spouse admitted under section 
101(a)(15)(L), who is accompanying or following to join a principal 
alien admitted under such section, the Attorney General shall authorize 
the alien spouse to engage in employment in the United States and 
provide the spouse with an `employment authorized' endorsement or other 
appropriate work permit, if the foreign state of which the principal 
alien is a citizen or national has entered into an agreement with the 
United States under which it agrees to extend reciprocal treatment to 
citizens and nationals of the United States.''.
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