109 HR 688 IH: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar the admission, and facilitate the removal, of alien terrorists and their supporters and fundraisers, to secure our borders against terrorists, drug traffickers, and other illegal aliens, to facilitate the removal of illegal aliens and aliens who are criminals or human rights abusers, to reduce visa, document, and employment fraud, to temporarily suspend processing of certain visas and immigration benefits, to reform the legal immigration system, and for other purposes.
U.S. House of Representatives
2005-02-09
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1.Short title; references; table of contents; severability
(a)This Act may be cited as—
(1)the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005
; or
(2)the SAFER Act
.
(b)References to Immigration and Nationality ActExcept as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
(c)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; references; table of contents; severability
Sec. 2. Congressional findings
Title I—Securing the border
Subtitle A—Prevention and Punishment of Criminal Smuggling, Transporting, and Harboring of Aliens
Sec. 101. Increased personnel for investigating alien smuggling
Sec. 102. Increased criminal sentences and fines for alien smuggling
Sec. 103. Change to sentencing guidelines
Sec. 104. Enhanced penalties for persons committing offenses while armed
Sec. 105. Discontinuing grant of visas to nationals of countries not cooperating in combatting alien smuggling
Subtitle B—Border Personnel and Strategy
Sec. 111. Report on number of border patrol agents needed to secure northern border
Sec. 112. Use of Army and Air Force to secure the border
Sec. 113. Use of border property to secure the border
Sec. 114. Report on border strategy
Title II—Screening aliens seeking admission
Sec. 201. Increase in full-time inspectors
Sec. 202. Visa waiver program
Sec. 203. Consular officer interviews of all visa applicants
Sec. 204. Recodification and reform of grounds of inadmissibility
Sec. 205. Protection of U.S. specialty workers
Sec. 206. Antifraud fee
Title III—Tracking aliens present in the United States
Sec. 301. Entry-exit system
Sec. 302. Collection of information regarding foreign students
Sec. 303. Alien registration
Sec. 304. Visa term compliance bonds
Sec. 305. Release of aliens in removal proceedings
Sec. 306. Detention of aliens delivered by bondsmen
Title IV—Removing alien terrorists, criminals, and human rights violators
Subtitle A—Removing Alien Terrorists
Sec. 401. Deportability of terrorists, national security threats, and serious foreign crimes
Sec. 402. Administrative removal of alien terrorists
Sec. 403. Asylum petitions by members of terrorist organizations
Sec. 404. Expatriation of terrorists
Subtitle B—Removing Alien Criminals
Sec. 411. Definition of criminal conviction
Sec. 412. Removing murderers, rapists, sexual abusers of children, and drunk drivers
Sec. 413. Detention and release of criminal aliens pending removal decision
Subtitle C—Removing Alien Human Rights Violators
Sec. 421. Serious human rights violator defined
Sec. 422. Deportability of serious human rights violators
Sec. 423. Arrest and detention of serious human rights violators pending removal and criminal prosecution decisions
Sec. 424. Exception to restriction on removal for serious human rights violators and terrorists
Sec. 425. Initiation of removal proceedings against serious human rights violators by complaint
Sec. 426. Bars to refugee status and asylum for serious human rights violators
Sec. 427. Bar to adjustment of status for serious human rights violators
Sec. 428. Bar to finding of good moral character for serious human rights violators
Sec. 429. Bar to cancellation of removal for serious human rights violators
Sec. 430. Bar to adjustment of status with respect to certain special immigrants
Sec. 431. Criminal penalties for reentry of removed serious human rights violators
Sec. 432. Aiding or assisting serious human rights violators to enter the United States
Sec. 433. Revision of regulations with respect to the involuntary return of persons in danger of subjection to torture
Sec. 434. Funding for detention and removal assistance provided by State and local law enforcement agencies
Sec. 435. Effective date
Title V—Enhancing enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act in the interior
Subtitle A—Document Security
Sec. 501. Secure travel documents
Sec. 502. Social security cards
Sec. 503. Consular identification documents
Subtitle B—Employment Eligibility Verification
Sec. 511. Employment eligibility verification process and elimination of examination of documentation requirement
Sec. 512. Employment eligibility verification system
Sec. 513. Notification by Commissioner of failure to correct social security information
Sec. 514. Protection for individuals reporting immigration law violations
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous
Sec. 521. Expedited exclusion
Sec. 522. Adjustment of status for certain aliens
Sec. 523. Termination of continuous presence for purposes of cancellation of removal upon commission of offense rendering alien inadmissible or deportable
Sec. 524. Reentry of removed aliens
Sec. 525. Criminal and civil penalties for entry of aliens at improper time or place, avoidance of examination or inspection, unlawful presence, and misrepresentation or concealment of facts
Sec. 526. Communication between government agencies and the Department of Homeland Security
Sec. 527. Exception to removal for certain aliens
Sec. 528. Voluntary departure
Sec. 529. Cancellation of removal
Sec. 530. Expedited removal of criminal aliens
Sec. 531. Subject to the jurisdiction defined
Sec. 532. Claims for services performed by unauthorized aliens
Sec. 533. Restriction on warrantless entry
Title VI—Eliminating excessive review and dilatory and abusive tactics by aliens in removal proceedings
Sec. 601. Frivolous applications
Sec. 602. Continuances; change of venue
Sec. 603. Burden of proof in asylum proceedings
Sec. 604. Review of Convention Against Torture grants and denials
Sec. 605. Time limit for decisions in administrative appeals
Sec. 606. Review of asylum claims
Sec. 607. Judicial review
Title VII—Emergency immigration workload reduction
Sec. 701. Congressional findings
Sec. 702. Temporary suspension of visa waiver program
Sec. 703. Temporary suspension of adjustment of status applications
Sec. 704. Temporary suspension of renewals of temporary protected status
Sec. 705. Curtailment of visas for countries denying or delaying repatriation of nationals
Sec. 706. Waiver of suspensions
Sec. 707. Termination of temporary suspensions
Sec. 708. Effective date
Title VIII—Reforming legal immigration
Subtitle A—Promotion of Citizenship
Sec. 801. Changes in naturalization requirements
Sec. 802. Oath of renunciation and allegiance
Subtitle B—Treatment of Nationals of State Sponsors of Terrorism
Sec. 811. Treatment of nationals of State sponsors of terrorism
Subtitle C—Legal Immigration Reform
Sec. 821. Extended family preference categories
Sec. 822. Employment third preference category
Sec. 823. Elimination of diversity immigrant program
Sec. 824. Refugee admissions
Sec. 825. Aliens subject to direct numerical limitations
Sec. 826. Education of family-sponsored immigrants
Sec. 827. Sponsorship levels
Sec. 828. Repeal of section 245(i)
Title IX—Miscellaneous provisions
Sec. 901. Temporary protected status
Sec. 902. Good moral character
Sec. 903. Removal for aliens who make misrepresentations to procure benefits
Sec. 904. Designations of foreign terrorist organizations
Sec. 905. Foreign students
Sec. 906. Pay grade GS–15 available for trial attorneys
Sec. 907. Proof of identity of aliens seeking relief
Sec. 908. Following to join defined
Sec. 909. Information on foreign crimes
(d)If any provision of this Act, or the application of such a provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act, and the application of the provisions of this Act to any other person or circumstance, shall not be affected by such holding.
2.The Congress finds as follows:
(1)Alien terrorists are not a distinct national security problem that is somehow separable from the interrelated problems of alien trafficking, alien criminality, and illegal immigration driven by economic factors.
(2)An effective counter-terrorism effort must assume that terrorists will take advantage of our permeable borders and the ability of illegal aliens to operate in the United States without any systematic effort to locate and remove them.
(3)The capability to routinely and reliably detect and locate non-citizens present in the United States, and accurately identify their immigration status, is the first essential line of defense against alien terrorist operations on United States territory.
(4)A comprehensive strategy of interior enforcement that includes an automated work authorization verification system, penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, and prompt removal of aliens found working without authorization is the only effective way to identify and control the large illegal alien population in the United States.
(5)Suppression of illegal immigration through effective alien registration and document security programs is the most practical and effective means to protect the civic freedoms treasured by U.S. citizens during periods of terrorist-related national security threats.
<enum>I</enum><header>Securing the border</header>
<subtitle id="H37A08ABA942A4BB4A765131B7FAA8100"><enum>A</enum><header>Prevention and Punishment of criminal smuggling, transporting, and harboring of aliens</header>
<section id="HA23FFCDF4C1A473AAE3D75A3A797EA0"><enum>101.</enum><header>Increased personnel for investigating alien smuggling</header>
<subsection id="HFCE4B6FD9FE54D58BF419705CD917E71"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2013, shall increase the number of positions for full-time, active-duty investigators or other enforcement personnel within the Department of Homeland Security who are assigned to combat alien smuggling by not less than 50 positions above the number of such positions for which funds were allotted for the preceding fiscal year.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H04489EE12BAF4D48B2BB17C488DAAB7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header>
<paragraph id="HA2027A00EC7842F1A7A23CFFB8109E6B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In addition to funds otherwise available for such purpose, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security such sums as may be necessary in each of the fiscal years 2006 through 2013 to carry out subsection (a), and to cover the operating expenses of the department in conducting undercover investigations of alien smuggling activities and in prosecuting violations of section 274(a)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324">8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)</external-xref>) (relating to alien smuggling), resulting from the increase in personnel under subsection (a).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE010C0DEB96840CF00F00B3FECB2061"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability of funds</header><text>Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) are authorized to remain available until expended.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H47693848B7AB4576AD64F93DA322AE3B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Alien smuggling defined</header><text>In this section, the term <term>alien smuggling</term> means any act prohibited by section 274(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324">8 U.S.C. 1324(a)</external-xref>) or section 274A(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324a">8 U.S.C. 1324a(a)</external-xref>).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HDA10F7BCC4A3463093C573CD6829C6BA"><enum>102.</enum><header>Increased criminal sentences and fines for alien smuggling</header>
<subsection id="HD29196C70E26427200BCABEA83112FD3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subsection (b), pursuant to its authority under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/994">section 994(p)</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall promulgate sentencing guidelines or amend existing sentencing guidelines for smuggling, transporting, harboring, or inducing aliens under sections 274(a)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324">8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)</external-xref>) so as to—</text>
<paragraph id="HF5E96DCA5F0544B78219FF50F2354EE9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>triple the minimum term of imprisonment under that section for offenses involving the smuggling, transporting, harboring, or inducing of—</text>
<subparagraph id="H25151428A35C4BF48F96A6D8B3556CE7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>1 to 5 aliens from 10 months to 30 months;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D134AD6CBD94538BC018692464DE100"><enum>(B)</enum><text>6 to 24 aliens from 18 months to 54 months;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H16E937354B7C465289607FB1F8B3B24D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>25 to 100 aliens from 27 months to 81 months; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3928CF32A61644209570E69E572B193C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>101 aliens or more from 37 months to 111 months;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H00CA1A7D75F14C2DB7C537A05D186793"><enum>(2)</enum><text>increase the minimum level of fines for each of the offenses described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1) to the greater of $25,000 per alien or 3 times the amount the defendant received or expected to receive as compensation for the illegal activity;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCF9E0A533828406482A96BD50072128B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>increase by at least 2 offense levels above the applicable enhancement in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act the sentencing enhancements for intentionally or recklessly creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury or causing bodily injury, serious injury, or permanent or life threatening injury;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF54AEBFBD0134A53A02F039009BBCEC0"><enum>(4)</enum><text>for actions causing death, increase the offense level to be equivalent to that for involuntary manslaughter under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1112">section 1112</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H96DC8DAED1A3457FAEF5EFD77E62E78F"><enum>(5)</enum><text>for corporations or other business entities that knowingly benefit from such offenses, increase the minimum level of fines for each of the offenses described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1) to $50,000 per alien employed directly, or indirectly through contract, by the corporation or entity.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA778773DFBEC4260AD62870077B8002D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to an offense that involved the smuggling, transporting, or harboring only of the defendant’s spouse or child (or both the defendant’s spouse and child).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H35EC9E8BDD444ACFB804BD08506567F9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>The United States Sentencing Commission shall carry out subsection (a) not later than the date that is 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H3B2E46A0F515438AA6822F29A11D5500"><enum>103.</enum><header>Change to sentencing guidelines</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the exercise of its authority under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/994">section 994</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, the United States Sentencing Commission shall amend the Federal sentencing guidelines to provide that plea bargaining and other prosecutorial policies, and differences in those policies among different districts, are not a ground for imposing a sentence outside the applicable guidelines range for a violation of immigration law.</text></section>
<section id="HB06FE976BB8645A491DA124E4626D3C"><enum>104.</enum><header>Enhanced penalties for persons committing offenses while armed</header>
<subsection id="HD10FC49FD7F040719695DCD7DF013ECC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/924">Section 924(c)(1)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H727BBF8A7F0C4DDC90ADCDFFFC6714E9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H6E15B0D267D043299D0076B8B402003C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>device)</quote> the following: <quote>or any violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name></quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF18E5A71527B4972953D7B033781A017"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or drug trafficking crime—</quote> and inserting <quote>, drug trafficking crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>—</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6C425E3888474A318167C67762AD9236"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D)(ii), by striking <quote>or drug trafficking crime</quote> and inserting <quote>, drug trafficking crime, or violation of section 274(a)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name></quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H25A8AB0E923E4188B4BEDDD565215579"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall apply to offenses committed after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H2534920145E6417EA869E9F29DEF9440"><enum>105.</enum><header>Discontinuing grant of visas to nationals of countries not cooperating in combatting alien smuggling</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that the government of a foreign country has not cooperated fully with the United States, or has not taken adequate steps on its own, to combat the smuggling of aliens into the United States from territory controlled by the state, the Secretary shall order consular officers in the country to discontinue granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas, or both, to citizens, subjects, nationals, and residents of the country until the Secretary determines that the country has begun to cooperate fully, or has taken adequate steps, to combat such smuggling.</text></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H1A77BEB82D4846B18DCBAC23F9D045D1"><enum>B</enum><header>Border personnel and strategy</header>
<section id="H95C3ACD2CBEC43D3BAD09733B6E08959"><enum>111.</enum><header>Report on number of border patrol agents needed to secure northern border</header>
<subsection id="HF488D45AD9214962B884E1CF23CC59E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the number of border patrol agents needed to secure the northern border of the United States.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H70A5EE044F164A67AB5673EB589543D8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Cooperation</header><text>The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall cooperate with the Comptroller General of the United States in carrying out this section.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HDB28B312B23B4CFBBCC662BDE59A0ED"><enum>112.</enum><header>Use of Army and Air Force to secure the border</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1385">Section 1385</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after <quote>execute the laws</quote> the following: <quote>other than at or near a border of the United States in order to prevent aliens, terrorists, and drug smugglers from entering the United States</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H363054F317C54E0AAAEC479044CA20D1"><enum>113.</enum><header>Use of border property to secure the border</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1103">8 U.S.C. 1103</external-xref> note) is amended by striking <quote>this section.</quote> and inserting <quote>this section and to secure the borders of the United States against aliens, terrorists, and drug smugglers.</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HD83141FE37214D11AB150899349F181F"><enum>114.</enum><header>Report on border strategy</header>
<subsection id="HB24395CE3A0C42D0866503E7B9AA6CD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Evaluation of strategy</header><text>The Comptroller General of the United States shall track, monitor, and evaluate the Secretary of Homeland Security’s strategy to deter illegal entry in the United States to determine the efficacy of such strategy.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFAC717D1FB1F40008DC617ACF3B50278"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Cooperation</header><text>The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall cooperate with the Comptroller General of the United States in carrying out subsection (a).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2759FD0CA02548E2A92C64A4AF3CBDC6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter for the succeeding 5 years, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and of the Senate on the results of the activities undertaken under subsection (a) during the previous year. Each such report shall include an analysis of the degree to which the Secretary of Homeland Security’s strategy has been effective in reducing illegal entry. Each such report shall include a collection and systematic analysis of data, including workload indicators, related to activities to deter illegal entry and recommendations to improve and increase border security at the border and ports of entry.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>II</enum><header>Screening aliens seeking admission</header>
<section id="H4F3CDCEA87384C1F8E63A5BBE2DA667C"><enum>201.</enum><header>Increase in full-time inspectors</header>
<subsection id="H66A23CFE8E1642DD8967DB84705E8E19"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in each of fiscal years 2006 through 2013, shall increase by not less than 250 the number of positions for full-time inspectors within the Department of Homeland Security above the number of positions for which funds were allotted for the preceding fiscal year.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFC40074492414A0FA4F7A4B6ACE3AE25"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section 101(a)(1) of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>) is repealed.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HF03186EBB77C41ACB94FE289711F50CB"><enum>202.</enum><header>Visa waiver program</header>
<subsection id="H3312739B55694213997D4B9177CF2371"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Passport requirements</header><text>Section 217(a)(3) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1187">8 U.S.C. 1187(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HF03EC553D26F48B2A69642185D5DB420">
<paragraph id="H79A0A0E3DDDA4CA99E77FED2153C5D9E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Machine-readable, tamper-resistant passport with biometric identifiers</header><text>On and after October 1, 2005, the alien at the time of application for admission is in possession of a valid unexpired machine-readable passport that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H99B741C57F494A68A39B4781A3710083"><enum>(A)</enum><text>satisfies the internationally accepted standard for machine readability;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6155CA289A6144AB90B0A6E5505E5635"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is tamper-resistant; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H47E0A57AC56C4B32AEADE2004BB8D5E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>incorporates biometric and document authentification identifiers that comply with applicable biometric and document identifying standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HA2BC636F10E94446B7867B7329D7BD9C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section 303(c) of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>) is repealed.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H44DE3F9D174A42279C3F102363A8572C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on October 1, 2007.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HAE2ADB1DA1F749F5A65E910206D82777"><enum>203.</enum><header>Consular officer interviews of all visa applicants</header>
<subsection id="H829F94FA04124EE5A491EF01B2D39750"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 221 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1201">8 U.S.C. 1201</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H129F4D89BD9442959D598F389DF0C43B">
<subsection id="HF92B970577B043C8A90610ACCD5F8EFA"><enum>(j)</enum><text>Prior to the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa to any alien, the consular officer shall require such alien to submit to an in-person interview in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H32753355420146DA82E6203903B501EB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the amendment made by subsection (a) such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2006 through 2013.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFB10EF678CE24663B49FDE7BE2214597"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to visas issued after October 1, 2005.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HCD8BED56CC954A86A8F9D02772C35927"><enum>204.</enum><header>Recodification and reform of grounds of inadmissibility</header>
<subsection id="HC90C30863F0140F08B4F1C94A04F7616"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Transfer and redesignation</header><text>Section 212 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDC5C9447A9D0480BAB977C2B57004BD3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by transferring subsection (e) to the end of section 222 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1202">8 U.S.C. 1202</external-xref>), as amended by section 5301(a) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/108/458">Public Law 108–458</external-xref>) and redesignating it as subsection (i);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25CB7934401A4E9187D1FE008ECDCBB7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by transferring subsections (j), (m), (n), and (q) to the end of section 214 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1202">8 U.S.C. 1202</external-xref>) and redesignating them as subsections (s), (t), (u), and (v), respectively; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H80F763111FD24BF88E0059DF2269CEB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending the remainder of such section to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block style="traditional" id="HF626E3CBAC794DE8860444D2E697D53B">
<section id="HC3F752DF6C38474D99C6FF8E7320B5C0"><enum>212.</enum><header>General classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible for admission; waivers of inadmissibility</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA3DAC561CFBF4B41BD78877BA30D6BA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in this Act, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:</text>
<paragraph id="H7C395BCAB5234B4A9BA66FCD38005024"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Health-related grounds</header>
<subparagraph id="H150AF08A917D4FCCB4DA960044DFE9F6"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien—</text>
<clause id="HF20C86BC753343FAA6C1ACD5FED289C2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance, which shall include infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome;</text></clause>
<clause id="H19D458BD359742EA8EA4270547DB7E9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>except as provided in subparagraph (C), who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices;</text></clause>
<clause id="H41233C2F041C4FFA9F29926650BD5BD5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security)—</text>
<subclause id="H19FEC6D21D1641F9BCE1095286D2B18F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>to have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HBA86D54FD40A43DC9315CA51F5EA00F7"><enum>(II)</enum><text>to have had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder, which behavior has posed a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others and which behavior is likely to recur or to lead to other harmful behavior; or</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HAFE92EE6AF134DCA83305163EE4D56D"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFB7595D492BF452396CB4173F0CF3B03"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>For provision authorizing waiver of certain clauses of subparagraph (A), see subsection (e).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H52E7E7CD9B594F0AA9B8BC7437833F32"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Exception from immunization requirement for adopted children 10 years of age or younger</header><text>Clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a child who—</text>
<clause id="H22A7517FC4C44FA7B600FCE9A9D2C62F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is 10 years of age or younger;</text></clause>
<clause id="HDAAD021AADAF4E03B5619104D7003F36"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is described in section 101(b)(1)(F); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H5EE8CE2EFE1D4711B78FBA00F1280009"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is seeking an immigrant visa as an immediate relative under section 201(b),</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">if, prior to the admission of the child, an adoptive parent or prospective adoptive parent of the child, who has sponsored the child for admission as an immediate relative, has executed an affidavit stating that the parent is aware of the provisions of subparagraph (A)(ii) and will ensure that, within 30 days of the child’s admission, or at the earliest time that is medically appropriate, the child will receive the vaccinations identified in such subparagraph.</continuation-text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC235043BB3AC4CBEAAE86DD872C2CC17"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Criminal and related grounds</header>
<subparagraph id="H433C344AF74E40578F6F75226B05F9ED"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Conviction of certain crimes</header>
<clause id="H0896F08EC3594C92AAF45F57888E07DE"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in clause (ii), any alien convicted of, or who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of—</text>
<subclause id="H8C31E1A035D648F4A2AB2703B17046F0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a crime involving moral turpitude (other than a purely political offense) or an attempt or conspiracy to commit such a crime; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H53EDFA5EC5354167881CF0BEE62571BF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a violation of (or a conspiracy or attempt to violate) any law or regulation of a State, the United States, or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the <act-name parsable-cite="CSA">Controlled Substances Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/802">21 U.S.C. 802</external-xref>)),</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H593E4FAFC26E43F8AE2B36B4DC6B7D38"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Clause (i)(I) shall not apply to an alien who committed only one crime if—</text>
<subclause id="H510692AAC6C049CD9C59AEBEBF5BF85E"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the crime was committed when the alien was under 18 years of age, and the crime was committed (and the alien released from any confinement to a prison or correctional institution imposed for the crime) more than 5 years before the date of application for a visa or other documentation and the date of application for admission to the United States; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6443AB936F4445208D6B3653CBE832C0"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the maximum penalty possible for the crime of which the alien was convicted (or which the alien admits having committed or of which the acts that the alien admits having committed constituted the essential elements) did not exceed imprisonment for one year and, if the alien was convicted of such crime, the alien was not sentenced to a term of imprisonment in excess of 6 months (regardless of the extent to which the sentence was ultimately executed).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE1050AE1461644B39BA32CDFF3253984"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Multiple criminal convictions</header><text>Any alien convicted of 2 or more offenses (other than purely political offenses), regardless of whether the conviction was in a single trial or whether the offenses arose from a single scheme of misconduct and regardless of whether the offenses involved moral turpitude, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement were 5 years or more is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB15F52AEDAC6415EA8A053107D74A13D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Controlled substance traffickers</header><text>Any alien who the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows or has reason to believe—</text>
<clause id="H2CCD0B1C85DF4C2EAE67F6F474695BF9"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is or has been an illicit trafficker in any controlled substance or in any listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the <act-name parsable-cite="CSA">Controlled Substances Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/21/802">21 U.S.C. 802</external-xref>)), or is or has been a knowing aider, abettor, assistant, conspirator, or colluder with others in the illicit trafficking in any such controlled or listed substance or chemical, or endeavored to do so; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HCA931F05BF6F40DAAC6740FFE061A737"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>is the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien inadmissible under clause (i), has, within the previous 5 years, obtained any financial or other benefit from the illicit activity of that alien, and knew or reasonably should have known that the financial or other benefit was the product of such illicit activity,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H21872C7ACB2C4A5D8461ABC92A4A2E4"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Prostitution and commercialized vice</header><text>Any alien who—</text>
<clause id="H14ED003E5C4B479CA5F92360957C0028"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is coming to the United States solely, principally, or incidentally to engage in prostitution, or has engaged in prostitution within 10 years of the date of application for a visa, admission, or adjustment of status;</text></clause>
<clause id="H845522AC6A0D45D7B1732515EB001000"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>directly or indirectly procures or attempts to procure, or (within 10 years of the date of application for a visa, entry, or adjustment of status) procured or attempted to procure or to import, prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution, or receives or (within such 10-year period) received, in whole or in part, the proceeds of prostitution; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H0EDA232F76024D269481972E46475E28"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>is coming to the United States to engage in any other unlawful commercialized vice, whether or not related to prostitution,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H017D47A5070E4D0291F257FF0137579F"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Certain aliens involved in serious criminal activity who have asserted immunity from prosecution</header><text>Any alien—</text>
<clause id="H3817D107A000407BA61EC75C9C8771CE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who has committed in the United States at any time a serious criminal offense (as defined in section 101(h));</text></clause>
<clause id="H6FB8689A7AB44E519193A4C1BA1CFD6D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for whom immunity from criminal jurisdiction was exercised with respect to that offense;</text></clause>
<clause id="H8A3454B229D647E18C85F7C698A8C402"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>who as a consequence of the offense and exercise of immunity has departed from the United States; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H30B1AFBEEE3C47999300C2F7EA514D3C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>who has not subsequently submitted fully to the jurisdiction of the court in the United States having jurisdiction with respect to that offense,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAB9DBFED9BCF4B96B79F76EF22CC8683"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>For provision authorizing waiver of certain subparagraphs of this paragraph, see subsection (f).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDD2F85079C044F9AAD3EE81979A2303"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Serious human rights abusers</header><text>Any serious human rights violator (as defined in section 101(a)(51)) is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5E00A9A12464444DAE0511BED11F692F"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Significant traffickers in persons</header>
<clause id="H6974EE2C88ED4E4DA400001E7E67C77B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who is listed in a report submitted pursuant to section 111(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, or who the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows or has reason to believe is or has been a knowing aider, abettor, assistant, conspirator, or colluder with such a trafficker in severe forms of trafficking in persons, as defined in section 103 of such Act, is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H30D3DBB694FA4EABBD73D0A0ADD8E17E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Beneficiaries of trafficking</header><text>Except as provided in clause (iii), any alien who the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows or has reason to believe is the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien inadmissible under clause (i), has, within the previous 5 years, obtained any financial or other benefit from the illicit activity of that alien, and knew or reasonably should have known that the financial or other benefit was the product of such illicit activity, is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="HA2D4A0A715B944E3A700CB00511DDE4B"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Exception for certain sons and daughters</header><text>Clause (ii) shall not apply to a son or daughter who was a child at the time he or she received the benefit described in such clause.</text>
<subclause indent="up2" id="HCB8AC5EB51FB42A5BB1E7B00D0360014"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Money laundering</header><text>Any alien—</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HC21EF910B49E4B85A801A58F77CB9E1C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reason to believe, has engaged, is engaging, or seeks to enter the United States to engage, in an offense which is described in section <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1956">1956</external-xref> or <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1957">1957</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code (relating to laundering of monetary instruments); or</text></clause>
<clause id="HC8403A47EB674E17982CBDA54C41DE05"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>who a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows is, or has been, a knowing aider, abettor, assistant, conspirator, or colluder with others in an offense which is described in such section,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC8E324B4268345049EA775B900530005"><enum>(J)</enum><header>Aggravated felony</header>
<clause id="H760215F5BC7945B98061EF5FBACD85D"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien convicted of an aggravated felony is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H9D1BC2A2548E4DEB88E97B285868DDAC"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply in the case of an alien with respect to a criminal conviction if the alien subsequent to the criminal conviction has been granted a full and unconditional pardon by the President of the United States or by the Governor of any State.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H207381B4CFC54D50A5F6EA61A3DFAFB"><enum>(K)</enum><header>Certain firearm offenses</header><text>Any alien who is convicted under any law of purchasing, selling, offering for sale, exchanging, using, owning, possessing, or carrying, or of attempting or conspiring to purchase, sell, offer for sale, exchange, use, own, possess, or carry, any weapon, part, or accessory which is a firearm or destructive device (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/921">section 921(a)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code) in violation of any law is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6B3BD742C45647729B36472DC571DDE8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Security and related grounds</header>
<subparagraph id="H3FFE20C588954EE48E1D2C00C479A4D1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, seeks to enter the United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in—</text>
<clause id="H5C282A848A124F07A1E9F0E5673B8D98"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any activity—</text>
<subclause id="HD375F6552182470CBD543478D86D5BC9"><enum>(I)</enum><text>to violate any law of the United States relating to espionage or sabotage; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6D7ADFAC2DBF4724BCD926C0826B4FA5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>to violate or evade any law prohibiting the export from the United States of goods, technology, or sensitive information;</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H83E3B617B5BE4EBE99F54B068848EE9B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any other unlawful activity, including participation in a criminal enterprise, conspiracy, or scheme; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H441FB95EA07248C28B5374F8EA8DA3D6"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>any activity a purpose of which is the opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the Government of the United States by force, violence, or other unlawful means,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H76619221EA9E426BA3C728DB6EEFE446"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Terrorist activities</header>
<clause id="HB313F7A7C32F409581E5FF7669790749"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who—</text>
<subclause id="H12760E53261F4742B4BBDB1E6B8FD6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>has engaged in a terrorist activity;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H805BFDFC4CA04A63A63CBF5905EAC0C2"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security knows, or has reasonable ground to believe, is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry in any terrorist activity (as defined in clause (iv));</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HAF907F604F7840C3AAEC1348546775BC"><enum>(III)</enum><text>has, under circumstances indicating an intention to cause death or serious bodily harm, incited terrorist activity;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H22AC2E5267394C5DBA00452F7C664EF4"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>is a representative (as defined in clause (v)) of—</text>
<item id="H7AA48F6F8FA54659ADB165009D962CF1"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>a terrorist organization; or</text></item>
<item id="HE288854256BC4333989C17371864EF85"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>a political, social, or other group that endorses or espouses terrorist activity;</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H9EA1C5CCA5AD4626AAAFCEA56D6328B9"><enum>(V)</enum><text>is a member of a terrorist organization;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HBE4F102847F04B1B9F4CBEC7DCB9C179"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HB4106CEEC1C840169357BFC112DAF1B"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>had information about an activity that the alien knew, or should have known, was a terrorist activity (before or after such activity occurred or while it was ongoing), knew, or should have known, that such information was not public information, and failed to report such information to a governmental authority; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HFA4635F5D22741FD8FF11FD5A4F4EA40"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text>is the spouse or child of an alien who is inadmissible under this subparagraph, if the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible occurred within the last 5 years,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">is inadmissible. An alien who is an officer, official, representative, or spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization is considered, for purposes of this Act, to be engaged in a terrorist activity.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H1F3E596F60BE4F92A26B02F700CCCC23"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subclause (VII) of clause (i) does not apply to a spouse or child—</text>
<subclause id="H532EACDF6BBC4289B8A941AB8EAE115"><enum>(I)</enum><text>who did not know or should not reasonably have known of the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible under this subparagraph; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H4C5685C8D1C449A9B750030058FB6B4C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>whom the consular officer, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security has reasonable grounds to believe has renounced the activity causing the alien to be found inadmissible under this subparagraph.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H7C630211E3024B4E9E7EA9C097AF006E"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Terrorist activity defined</header><text>As used in this subparagraph, the term <term>terrorist activity</term> means any activity which is unlawful under the laws of the place where it is committed (or which, if it had been or were to be committed in the United States, would be unlawful under the laws of the United States or any State) and which involves any of the following:</text>
<subclause id="H22DC028F0E4D49A1B5101FB65BDBA44B"><enum>(I)</enum><text>The hijacking or sabotage of any conveyance (including an aircraft, vessel, or vehicle).</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H35E22CC7401C4F35B1DC376AE2CFC00"><enum>(II)</enum><text>The seizing or detaining, and threatening to kill, injure, or continue to detain, another individual in order to compel a third person (including a governmental organization) to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the individual seized or detained.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H462B0BC9195F44B4B687CDEDCCBD0943"><enum>(III)</enum><text>A violent attack upon an internationally protected person (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1116">section 1116(b)(4)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code) or upon the liberty of such a person.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H0347AB3703824E3EB360FC88B09603F0"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>An assassination.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8A6EEBEC547942DD9B593981FE7D5E6E"><enum>(V)</enum><text>The use of any—</text>
<item id="H5E809B80C40F47679B00D9C096B8009F"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>biological agent, chemical agent, or nuclear weapon or device; or</text></item>
<item id="H00E0E7F78FB140B389991F83CEB88BD7"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>explosive, firearm, or other weapon or dangerous device (other than for mere personal monetary gain),</text></item><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subclause">with intent to endanger, directly or indirectly, the safety of one or more individuals or to cause substantial damage to property.</continuation-text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD7682927CEE849B3A4EB02EB86B66CCD"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>A threat, attempt, or conspiracy to do any of the foregoing.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H847FBD64E4D242E990C0F231E37B09"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Engage in terrorist activity defined</header><text>As used in this subparagraph, the term <term>engage in terrorist activity</term> means, in an individual capacity or as a member of an organization—</text>
<subclause id="H0E2D923FD22B49B586031E2311D88EC3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>to commit or to incite to commit, under circumstances indicating an intention to cause death or serious bodily injury, a terrorist activity;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HCF326B58D3C84BF59CBB39B304CC10CD"><enum>(II)</enum><text>to prepare or plan a terrorist activity;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HB9EBCA23BCB041B18C52CCBD4F166784"><enum>(III)</enum><text>to gather information on potential targets for terrorist activity;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HC01653A0B1284D30B567B9F4F7F75869"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>to solicit funds or other things of value for—</text>
<item id="H8236783F55E14B2E9B4573E69C768134"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>a terrorist activity;</text></item>
<item id="H7F6A645134CA464C89FE006CABAC2C"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(I) or (vi)(II); or</text></item>
<item id="H87D21303826E4382BEE9B2CDA112C4A1"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(III), unless the solicitor can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he did not know, and should not reasonably have known, that the organization was a terrorist organization;</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H9CC4428B2C2D4A668600D6F5B477BF00"><enum>(V)</enum><text>to solicit any individual—</text>
<item id="HA6C63E5DC3664D0485B04971D6ADB1A3"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>to engage in conduct otherwise described in this clause;</text></item>
<item id="HF41B8B8CF7F34B5098B6ACF7E4A73F26"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>for membership in a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(I) or (vi)(II); or</text></item>
<item id="H69CD2477BF304C3A9C4016D4D040C3FB"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>for membership in a terrorist organization described in clause (vi)(III), unless the solicitor can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that he did not know, and should not reasonably have known, that the organization was a terrorist organization; or</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H2C48FED06A1A4EE495C323F1F1DF3679"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>to commit an act that the actor knows, or reasonably should know, affords material support, including a safe house, transportation, communications, funds, transfer of funds or other material financial benefit, false documentation or identification, weapons (including chemical, biological, or radiological weapons), explosives, or training—</text>
<item id="H9FCA897B4F2341EE8C8EC5EB42F1F585"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>for the commission of a terrorist activity;</text></item>
<item id="H2721129CD1B64AE48FBC616ED223F361"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>to any individual who the actor knows, or reasonably should know, has committed or plans to commit a terrorist activity; or</text></item>
<item id="H03130506E5B7459D928909057C1C14FB"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>to a terrorist organization described in subclauses (I) through (III) of clause (vi).</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H4E1ED49280934DDE8556CDE9597B6000"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Representative defined</header><text>As used in this subparagraph, the term <term>representative</term> includes an officer, official, or spokesman of an organization, and any person who directs, counsels, commands, or induces an organization or its members to engage in terrorist activity.</text></clause>
<clause id="H5F3F6E383F9C4CC4B06DB006618C001E"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Terrorist organization defined</header><text>As used in this section, the term <term>terrorist organization</term> means an organization—</text>
<subclause id="H1496B49FE11543788B2439C0CB01C4C9"><enum>(I)</enum><text>designated under section 219;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H1F62E3C2543243D4B68B36BF072EE24C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>otherwise designated, upon publication in the Federal Register, by the Secretary of State in consultation with or upon the request of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as a terrorist organization, after finding that the organization engages in the activities described in subclauses (I) through (VI) of clause (iv), or that the organization provides material support to further terrorist activity; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H717A0AE8FF3D4015AC876EFEC2AEA89F"><enum>(III)</enum><text>that is a group of two or more individuals, whether organized or not, which engages in, or has a subgroup which engages in, the activities described in subclauses (I) through (VI) of clause (iv).</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H565EE1537B4D47FA003E6786F9C6F81D"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Foreign policy</header><text>An alien whose entry or proposed activities in the United States the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF8803C7BAA7B43FCB9E6F650EFB635E3"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Immigrant membership in totalitarian party</header>
<clause id="HE0411D3C51D846B98D9E01AA26DF1C17"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H45044DB89BD34C0F9E2FAA4143E26B86"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception for involuntary membership</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to an alien because of membership or affiliation if the alien establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer when applying for a visa (or to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Security when applying for admission) that the membership or affiliation is or was involuntary, or is or was solely when under 16 years of age, by operation of law, or for purposes of obtaining employment, food rations, or other essentials of living and necessary for such purposes.</text></clause>
<clause id="HB827D8EEA29548C8BD79073F251B6988"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Exception for past membership</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to an alien because of membership or affiliation if the alien establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer when applying for a visa (or to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Security when applying for admission) that—</text>
<subclause id="H0810C708DCFD4280B71DB85709A3BE27"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the membership or affiliation terminated at least—</text>
<item id="H6FFA190B987F4DF59DDB20B302745FAE"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>2 years before the date of such application; or</text></item>
<item id="H0B94BC687F2347F48C542FB9B05FA22E"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>5 years before the date of such application, in the case of an alien whose membership or affiliation was with the party controlling the government of a foreign state that is a totalitarian dictatorship as of such date; and</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="HDCBB3470EF514E31B425C266A8F19869"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the alien is not a threat to the security of the United States.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1B25AFD979F5401E00C0342CDA350897"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Participants in Nazi persecutions</header><text>Any alien who, during the period beginning on March 23, 1933, and ending on May 8, 1945, under the direction of, or in association with—</text>
<clause id="H3752157BAEFD4C21A85BBB3500ACF3E0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Nazi government of Germany;</text></clause>
<clause id="H58C061903B4E4525981C3E111B3CA800"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any government in any area occupied by the military forces of the Nazi government of Germany;</text></clause>
<clause id="H3890ECA877CC447C96269EE047B087D9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>any government established with the assistance or cooperation of the Nazi government of Germany; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H9B3FF9E024E246AAAF98D2EEB6FE3F76"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>any government which was an ally of the Nazi government of Germany,</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion, is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3EB529E63E354222B8D25C3668059C57"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Association with terrorist organizations</header><text>Any alien who the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General determines has been associated with a terrorist organization and intends while in the United States to engage solely, principally, or incidentally in activities that could endanger the welfare, safety, or security of the United States is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9F693A12B58E44A698CD40CE00691FE2"><enum>(G)</enum><header>National security consequences</header><text>An alien whose entry or proposed activities in the United States the Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security has reasonable grounds to believe would have potentially serious adverse consequences for the national security of the United States is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9B4B8807696F471CA2581643B3C67DE7"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Serious foreign crimes</header><text>An alien whom the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General has reason to believe is charged with or has committed a serious criminal offense (other than a purely political offense) in a country other than the United States is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC7E71E6B473D4364AC674C5FA4AFAAB8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Public charge</header>
<subparagraph id="HFBEFB513A5BD4EAF9C82CF824ED00010"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who, in the opinion of the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security at the time of application for a visa, or in the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security at the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA2CA4EDFF60D4B428800F134A32757C1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Factors to be taken into account</header>
<clause id="H71D6F6BD619E4517BB8E3294B506841"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In determining whether an alien is inadmissible under this paragraph, the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security shall at a minimum consider the alien’s—</text>
<subclause id="H6986F40092014ED58FD2EC61CCB2DA"><enum>(I)</enum><text>age;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H40323B3628AB4DCFB0712F7F236EFB71"><enum>(II)</enum><text>health;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H3CE5F5CF6A2148FEAC00E500DA8F442E"><enum>(III)</enum><text>family status;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H1C7B41B78A5D46E882E37797E4C7264C"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>assets, resources, and financial status; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HCBA8732C285549BABBDB4E40D93027BB"><enum>(V)</enum><text>education and skills.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H2711001B35BB4C9483A0F59F788850D9"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Affidavit of support</header><text>In addition to the factors under clause (i), the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security may also consider any affidavit of support under section 213A for purposes of exclusion under this paragraph.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB65F87E1900041FB9249007BF200C5DA"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Family-sponsored immigrants</header><text>Any alien who seeks admission or adjustment of status under a visa number issued under section 201(b)(2) or 203(a) is inadmissible under this paragraph unless—</text>
<clause id="H8DE4703C24D84CEEA7C429D9916AFF7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien has obtained—</text>
<subclause id="HAF10AEAF63674B759F66F7827CD484C2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>status as a spouse or a child of a United States citizen pursuant to clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A); or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF84DF62346D64D408E9C9D97F400C980"><enum>(II)</enum><text>classification pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B); or</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HA0C6DCC86B13497080D8A70477BFFAC9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the person petitioning for the alien’s admission (including any additional sponsor required under section 213A(f)) has executed an affidavit of support described in section 213A with respect to such alien.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA0FC27FA2D45436BA9BBE2571B4114BB"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Certain employment-based immigrants</header><text>Any alien who seeks admission or adjustment of status under a visa number issued under section 203(b) by virtue of a classification petition filed by a relative of the alien (or by an entity in which such relative has a significant ownership interest) is inadmissible under this paragraph unless such relative has executed an affidavit of support described in section 213A with respect to such alien.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEB6018732B1345E0B670EB292E62D1C"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Labor certification and qualifications for certain immigrants</header>
<subparagraph id="HF68D968790924909B8AE05C68505CC7F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Labor certification</header>
<clause id="H41F6C7EAD6FC4A65AEB5B4B1874D4628"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing skilled or unskilled labor is inadmissible, unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security that—</text>
<subclause id="HA0A4A3E837EA474B958CF3AC3BD224FA"><enum>(I)</enum><text>there are not sufficient workers who are able, willing, qualified (or equally qualified in the case of an alien described in clause (ii)) and available at the time of application for a visa and admission to the United States and at the place where the alien is to perform such skilled or unskilled labor; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HFDBA948829814658BBF3D4C18BA87903"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the employment of such alien will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of workers in the United States similarly employed, nor displace a United States citizen currently employed by the entity requesting labor certification.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HD92BC43C31284EB78231CC3B21B15773"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Certain aliens Subject to special rule</header><text>For purposes of clause (i)(I), an alien described in this clause is an alien who—</text>
<subclause id="H3ACEC3D8EBE24E188633F254FCB64EE5"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is a member of the teaching profession; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H7DCE960808B44DBA90F16B009B9349B5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>has exceptional ability in the sciences or the arts.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H60F207128D4148FAB1E8D470AA8E74FD"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Professional athletes</header>
<subclause id="H5E2C54A1F1B8419E917DEA48791800C7"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A certification made under clause (i) with respect to a professional athlete shall remain valid with respect to the athlete after the athlete changes employer, if the new employer is a team in the same sport as the team which employed the athlete when the athlete first applied for the certification.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HBB87D9FBC78F4AF7BF8440D41D0504D6"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>For purposes of subclause (I), the term <term>professional athlete</term> means an individual who is employed as an athlete by—</text>
<item id="H1DA20BFF465041148323F2BBF0B8E739"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>a team that is a member of an association of 6 or more professional sports teams whose total combined revenues exceed $10,000,000 per year, if the association governs the conduct of its members and regulates the contests and exhibitions in which its member teams regularly engage; or</text></item>
<item id="HE54C95A7C26E4683A2033D16E5F6C546"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>any minor league team that is affiliated with such an association.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H488AA3BDC1FD4EA692481B5E2B0800D8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Unqualified physicians</header><text>An alien who is a graduate of a medical school not accredited by a body or bodies approved for the purpose by the Secretary of Education (regardless of whether such school of medicine is in the United States) and who is coming to the United States principally to perform services as a member of the medical profession is inadmissible, unless the alien (i) has passed parts I and II of the National Board of Medical Examiners Examination (or an equivalent examination as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) and (ii) is competent in oral and written English. For purposes of the previous sentence, an alien who is a graduate of a medical school shall be considered to have passed parts I and II of the National Board of Medical Examiners if the alien was fully and permanently licensed to practice medicine in a State on January 9, 1978, and was practicing medicine in a State on that date.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD4A22AE5BFA447A2ACFAEE21B5AA2663"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Uncertified foreign health-care workers</header><text>Subject to subsection (j), any alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing labor as a health-care worker, other than a physician, is inadmissible unless the alien presents to the consular officer, or, in the case of an adjustment of status, the Secretary of Homeland Security, a certificate from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools, or a certificate from an equivalent independent credentialing organization approved by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, verifying that—</text>
<clause id="H3F0028FA0FC242B7BCB36061E24546AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien’s education, training, license, and experience—</text>
<subclause id="H36E3143529D04DE2AA04EDD7518DC8BF"><enum>(I)</enum><text>meet all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for entry into the United States under the classification specified in the application;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF63C6E599C15495C8B2C44A856FD8914"><enum>(II)</enum><text>are comparable with that required for an American health-care worker of the same type; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HFB693E2C7F084C8FAF6732362D8D1C3C"><enum>(III)</enum><text>are authentic and, in the case of a license, unencumbered;</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H957730573A2A4CF0BC41D407E814B2FF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the alien has the level of competence in oral and written English considered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to be appropriate for health care work of the kind in which the alien will be engaged, as shown by an appropriate score on one or more nationally recognized, commercially available, standardized assessments of the applicant’s ability to speak and write; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H1BA58A60FC654B418035FEAED9606FFA"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>if a majority of States licensing the profession in which the alien intends to work recognize a test predicting the success on the profession’s licensing or certification examination, the alien has passed such a test or has passed such an examination.</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">For purposes of clause (ii), determination of the standardized tests required and of the minimum scores that are appropriate are within the sole discretion of the Secretary of Health and Human Services and are not subject to further administrative or judicial review.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7E619603A7B94C518E9EA2F6FE93F78B"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Application of grounds</header><text>The grounds for inadmissibility of aliens under subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall apply to immigrants seeking admission or adjustment of status under paragraph (2) or (3) of section 203(b).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDB004FAB10414DEF9CC485AE538422C6"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Illegal entrants and immigration violators</header>
<subparagraph id="HC2AFD0674A4F41FEA49645C95477A0F7"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Aliens present without admission or parole</header>
<clause id="H5D20512DD61F42A896E5028F7EDBFB72"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An alien present in the United States without being admitted or paroled, or who arrives in the United States at any time or place other than as designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H2909F85F160B4C70B700E1D656C24F6D"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception for certain battered women and children</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to an alien who demonstrates that—</text>
<subclause id="HD253D8AA88AD4EF386CCA0869DE4819"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the alien qualifies for immigrant status under subparagraph (A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), or (B)(iii) of section 204(a)(1);</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HB363B8F3890141D79CBA2EC201B15B8C"><enum>(II)</enum>
<item display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H74BC4468388B4FFEA18FAD9B9EC1662F"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>the alien has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a spouse or parent, or by a member of the spouse’s or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced in such battery or cruelty, or</text></item>
<item indent="up1" id="HEDB084C87A644E87886F42C52739224B"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>the alien’s child has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or cruelty) or by a member of the spouse’s or parent’s family residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse or parent consented to or acquiesced in such battery or cruelty and the alien did not actively participate in such battery or cruelty; and</text></item></subclause>
<subclause id="H4544BCDA609149FA80A92125584719DC"><enum>(III)</enum><text>there was a substantial connection between the battery or cruelty described in subclause (I) or (II) and the alien’s unlawful entry into the United States.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB21C97D31D91423FB9000027DFA5F900"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Failure to attend Removal proceeding</header><text>Any alien who without reasonable cause fails or refuses to attend or remain in attendance at a proceeding to determine the alien’s inadmissibility or deportability and who seeks admission to the United States within 5 years of such alien’s subsequent departure or removal is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEE844396311E4392A8E51E19D9EC6231"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Misrepresentation</header>
<clause id="H56CEA70BCF2945EE88BF5DD9FC8E4B99"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who, by fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact, seeks to procure (or has sought to procure or has procured) a visa, other documentation, or admission into the United States or other benefit provided under this Act for himself, herself, or any other alien, is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H1EC1D36299004F71B7868DF4BD8C3909"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Falsely claiming citizenship</header>
<subclause id="HFD917DA28DA842E1AB9F74A303142FD5"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who falsely represents, or has falsely represented, himself or herself to be a citizen of the United States for any purpose or benefit under this Act (including section 274A) or any other Federal or State law is inadmissible.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H0694E4A2D33746B5A89444488EE95D84"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>In the case of an alien making a representation described in subclause (I), if each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization), the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16, and the alien reasonably believed at the time of making such representation that he or she was a citizen, the alien shall not be considered to be inadmissible under any provision of this subsection based on such representation.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0FB55627238F491E0076BDF91EA2E000"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Stowaways</header><text>Any alien who is a stowaway is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H83001099B4FC46FCB31F836BD7AF8B01"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Smugglers</header>
<clause id="H2B6559452A6949E1B6D7BD279872F995"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who at any time knowingly has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter or to try to enter the United States in violation of law is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H039983664C1D4F09BB2554CD8ED68D05"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Special rule in the case of family reunification</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply in the case of an alien who is an eligible immigrant (as defined in section 301(b)(1) of the Immigration Act of 1990), was physically present in the United States on May 5, 1988, and is seeking admission as an immediate relative or under section 203(a)(2) (including under section 112 of the Immigration Act of 1990) or benefits under section 301(a) of the Immigration Act of 1990 if the alien, before May 5, 1988, has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided only the alien’s spouse, parent, son, or daughter (and no other individual) to enter the United States in violation of law.</text></clause>
<clause id="H89F9557D6E41493483D91D255DDA1362"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>For provision authorizing waiver of clause (i), see subsection (c)(6).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDA1189B54ABF49BA8CDC6D66DFA903A0"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Subject of civil penalty</header><text>An alien who is the subject of a final order for violation of section 274C is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEF68317A5A424EB5A6F6E74441091133"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Student visa abusers</header><text>An alien who obtains the status of a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) and who violates a term or condition of such status under section 214(l) is inadmissible until the alien has been outside the United States for a continuous period of 5 years after the date of the violation.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8ED7A4980E6542CD85BA20588FC18EE7"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Change of address</header><text>An alien who has failed to comply with section 262 is inadmissible, unless the alien establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Security that such failure was reasonably excusable or was not willful.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5CE17F0C6197448391CDA6C391A9B02"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Documentation requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H75E8CC0523BF44BCBCE71FD05CB759C2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Immigrants</header>
<clause id="H2C3D2B963CDA4946B529BB35B8E76786"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, any immigrant at the time of application for admission—</text>
<subclause id="H212C1019E1FF4A2200456EEFA626E785"><enum>(I)</enum><text>who is not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, reentry permit, border crossing identification card, or other valid entry document required by this Act, and a valid unexpired passport, or other suitable travel document, or document of identity and nationality if such document is required under the regulations issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security under section 211(a); or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6B2E125E81684DECBA17EFD866145800"><enum>(II)</enum><text>whose visa has been issued without compliance with the provisions of section 203,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H87AEB2E4D7B645459C2151B0F090C161"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>For provision authorizing waiver of clause (i), see subsection (g).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0081D288F3484512B7B0FF7FC772EAE2"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Nonimmigrants</header>
<clause id="H78F63AB06FC44F6CAC17D05D0092328B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any nonimmigrant who—</text>
<subclause id="H13760B581CAF42F3A14D47E1B01801FC"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is not in possession of a passport valid for a minimum of six months from the date of the expiration of the initial period of the alien’s admission or contemplated initial period of stay authorizing the alien to return to the country from which the alien came or to proceed to and enter some other country during such period; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H63DAD6FEFEB647F09F02F7E4F0DD46D9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is not in possession of a valid nonimmigrant visa or border crossing identification card at the time of application for admission,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H9F1719D409D64600B047EA363E934FB5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>General waiver authorized</header><text>For provision authorizing waiver of clause (i), see subsection (c)(2).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H55627235CAF844FFBB52DCF5A8D20083"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Ineligible for citizenship</header>
<subparagraph id="HD03C5255D36449E58C87BA20611007E0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any immigrant who is permanently ineligible to citizenship is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H15B236E26BE34B1200600011FECDE3F3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Draft evaders</header><text>Any person who has departed from or who has remained outside the United States to avoid or evade training or service in the armed forces in time of war or a period declared by the President to be a national emergency is inadmissible, except that this subparagraph shall not apply to an alien who at the time of such departure was a nonimmigrant and who is seeking to reenter the United States as a nonimmigrant.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCBCBCA8F863E4660B30961154D8166F8"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Aliens previously removed</header>
<subparagraph id="HEBC05410655849D4B26F1BBF9DEB0741"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Certain aliens previously removed</header>
<clause id="H2F42EA0403A14370A74D8500D3BACCE"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Arriving aliens</header><text>Any alien who has been ordered removed under section 235(b)(1) or at the end of proceedings under section 240 initiated upon the alien’s arrival in the United States and who again seeks admission within 5 years of the date of such removal (or within 20 years in the case of a second or subsequent removal or at any time in the case of an alien convicted of an aggravated felony) is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H4B1487F6BD174A479E432BD395DCCC59"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Other aliens</header><text>Any alien not described in clause (i) who—</text>
<subclause id="H19FFD0F171944DBD8073D361B70477D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>has been ordered removed under section 240 or any other provision of law; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H2C25036B8CA245B7B738DA818BB99536"><enum>(II)</enum><text>departed the United States while an order of removal was outstanding,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">and who seeks admission within 10 years of the date of such alien’s departure or removal (or within 20 years of such date in the case of a second or subsequent removal or at any time in the case of an alien convicted of an aggravated felony) is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7AC14AB0C84E4688AA64F6DE535DC01B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Aliens unlawfully present</header>
<clause id="H037602FFA3664E250091704CB88C6782"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien (other than an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence) who—</text>
<subclause id="H9AAD46C19B49481500657B49D5AA16CF"><enum>(I)</enum><text>was unlawfully present in the United States for a period of more than 180 days but less than 1 year, voluntarily departed the United States (whether or not pursuant to section 244(e)) prior to the commencement of proceedings under section 235(b)(1) or section 240, and again seeks admission within 3 years of the date of such alien’s departure or removal; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD245E3DE168340E8A373D10813423B3C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>has been unlawfully present in the United States for one year or more, and who again seeks admission within 10 years of the date of such alien’s departure or removal from the United States,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H770988F02D4F42CEB09938EC13BD54A8"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Construction of unlawful presence</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, an alien is deemed to be unlawfully present in the United States if the alien is present in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Secretary of Homeland Security or is present in the United States without being admitted or paroled.</text></clause>
<clause id="H836D9ABE209B4AD1868B0932B3879623"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Exceptions</header>
<subclause id="H48472CF8D39C4CFF9B901C27BF7E75C"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Minors</header><text>No period of time in which an alien is under 18 years of age shall be taken into account in determining the period of unlawful presence in the United States under clause (i).</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H73140F9D216B4E65AD3BF3BCB2B338D"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Asylees</header><text>No period of time in which an alien has a bona fide application for asylum pending under section 208 shall be taken into account in determining the period of unlawful presence in the United States under clause (i) unless the alien during such period was employed without authorization in the United States.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H40D56E9164284BCA9C0042AC4C2EFC40"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Family unity</header><text>No period of time in which the alien is a beneficiary of family unity protection pursuant to section 301 of the Immigration Act of 1990 shall be taken into account in determining the period of unlawful presence in the United States under clause (i).</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H4A101B19DDBE4CF8A2A50100AFE6AF67"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Battered women and children</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to an alien who would be described in paragraph (6)(A)(ii) if <quote>violation of the terms of the alien’s nonimmigrant visa</quote> were substituted for <quote>unlawful entry into the United States</quote> in subclause (III) of that paragraph.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H71CC0FFEFCBB4ABDAF85F5CBE93E2BED"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Tolling for good cause</header><text>In the case of an alien who—</text>
<subclause id="H329AEC80F3574B5582F7A9EBF9FCA09F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>has been lawfully admitted or paroled into the United States;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8EE8F369A64E414C9EE47FDA90C0905E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>has filed a nonfrivolous application for a change or extension of status before the date of expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Secretary of Homeland Security; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H480342E06F4049C2B76D07FC1CE413B"><enum>(III)</enum><text>has not been employed without authorization in the United States before or during the pendency of such application,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">the calculation of the period of time specified in clause (i)(I) shall be tolled during the pendency of such application, but not to exceed 120 days.</continuation-text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0AFF679CE09246C3B37BFB5C1872FD0"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Aliens unlawfully present after previous immigration violations</header>
<clause id="HFB4E7807D84E4FA6A68B0809484C2C57"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who—</text>
<subclause id="H5D909814C8A0455DACBE740859D1AB5D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>has been unlawfully present in the United States for an aggregate period of more than 1 year; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HB09D066F672A48AD90F3C2663D11EA4F"><enum>(II)</enum><text>has been ordered removed under section 235(b)(1), section 240, or any other provision of law,</text></subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">and who enters or attempts to reenter the United States without being admitted is inadmissible.</continuation-text></clause>
<clause id="H9B24F255160D4A44BF6CF159E00CDA2"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Clause (i) shall not apply to an alien seeking admission more than 10 years after the date of the alien’s last departure from the United States if, prior to the alien’s reembarkation at a place outside the United States or attempt to be readmitted from a foreign contiguous territory, the Secretary of Homeland Security has consented to the alien’s reapplying for admission. The Secretary of Homeland Security in the Secretary’s discretion may waive the provisions of section 212(a)(9)(C)(i) in the case of an alien to whom the Secretary has granted classification under clause (iii), (iv), or (v) of section 204(a)(1)(A), or classification under clause (ii), (iii), or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(B), in any case in which there is a direct connection between—</text>
<subclause id="H9B96DAF711894749BB653FAB7912F2B1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the alien’s having been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF7CBFB44C650475B8D037E22C9001ECD"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the alien’s—</text>
<item id="H57851750BCB448459C63D5CEB1EDBCDE"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>removal;</text></item>
<item id="H02C21EEB111D45ADB5F2009C624285B9"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>departure from the United States;</text></item>
<item id="HE457E949089446F698ED06AB44242E19"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>reentry or reentries into the United States; or</text></item>
<item id="HE7516D204E17497BBAA8F5B3EF009FD1"><enum>(dd)</enum><text>attempted reentry into the United States.</text></item></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAB7AA49B7B2C4D8AB8F8143B302CF52B"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<subparagraph id="H50D7F210734647F4BCC6CC2200EB675E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Practicing polygamists</header><text>Any immigrant who is coming to the United States to practice polygamy is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA225D67311C545969E223BE05944F2ED"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Guardian required to accompany helpless alien</header><text>Any alien—</text>
<clause id="H3048216275A04F13A182D6ADA183F52C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who is accompanying another alien who is inadmissible and who is certified to be helpless from sickness, mental or physical disability, or infancy pursuant to section 232(c); and</text></clause>
<clause id="HDF62042C85DD426F93CFC26CCADFA475"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>whose protection or guardianship is determined to be required by the alien described in clause (i),</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">is inadmissible.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H97B4CF658B50487C883CABD8424BBE00"><enum>(C)</enum><header>International child abduction</header>
<clause id="H8016B8D35E8F4C80BCA3E209D274B05"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in clause (ii), any alien who, after entry of an order by a court in the United States granting custody to a person of a United States citizen child who detains or retains the child, or withholds custody of the child, outside the United States from the person granted custody by that order, is inadmissible until the child is surrendered to the person granted custody by that order.</text></clause>
<clause id="HE409C8CD54A8402800B1E00881E69A9"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Aliens supporting abductors and relatives of abductors</header><text>Any alien who—</text>
<subclause id="H688B32B61F5F4F408EFB58DCD04B8C6D"><enum>(I)</enum><text>is known by the Secretary of State to have intentionally assisted an alien in the conduct described in clause (i);</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8D23C64C386F4CE4BB49DABC068DC8E4"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is known by the Secretary of State to be intentionally providing material support or safe haven to an alien described in clause (i); or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HEDE8F1C6CB034CF38EB999DA99A20069"><enum>(III)</enum><text>is a spouse (other than the spouse who is the parent of the abducted child), child (other than the abducted child), parent, sibling, or agent of an alien described in clause (i), if such person has been designated by the Secretary of State at the Secretary’s sole and unreviewable discretion, is inadmissible until the child described in clause (i) is surrendered to the person granted custody by the order described in that clause, and such person and child are permitted to return to the United States or such person’s place of residence.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H38239C0DBE6746CE9871F0D0564FF4E8"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Clauses (i) and (ii) shall not apply—</text>
<subclause id="HC9E20F2813B6492BA700AAF03BD2D302"><enum>(I)</enum><text>to a government official of the United States who is acting within the scope of his or her official duties;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H72CB09EEFDEA4EB0ABE52340EE00E4EF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>to a government official of any foreign government if the official has been designated by the Secretary of State at the Secretary’s sole and unreviewable discretion; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H332E998CCCD8443698003350FA68AEF6"><enum>(III)</enum><text>so long as the child is located in a foreign state that is a party to the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague on October 25, 1980.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1DC76127AA264367AD0039EB00850368"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Unlawful voters</header>
<clause id="H34487F3AB8AB4E10822BEEA113F6EBB3"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any alien who has voted in violation of any Federal, State, or local constitutional provision, statute, ordinance, or regulation is inadmissible.</text></clause>
<clause id="H36BE943A37CA4DB1BD35D6F7A72F59EE"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>In the case of an alien who voted in a Federal, State, or local election (including an initiative, recall, or referendum) in violation of a lawful restriction of voting to citizens, if each natural parent of the alien (or, in the case of an adopted alien, each adoptive parent of the alien) is or was a citizen (whether by birth or naturalization), the alien permanently resided in the United States prior to attaining the age of 16, and the alien reasonably believed at the time of such violation that he or she was a citizen, the alien shall not be considered to be inadmissible under any provision of this subsection based on such violation.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC316AC5778F0483EB9AE71DBA96BE3C2"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Former citizens who renounced citizenship</header><text>Any alien who is a former citizen of the United States who officially renounced United States citizenship is inadmissible.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H60F8BB20C37E4B72857C3FDD33F85B4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notices of denials</header>
<paragraph id="H731C56AF520B4279832235507F7CE5C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), if an alien’s application for a visa, for admission to the United States, or for adjustment of status is denied by an immigration or consular officer because the officer determines the alien to be inadmissible under subsection (a), the officer shall provide the alien with a timely written notice that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC7DA8488CF024EFCBCACEC48401410D1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>states the determination; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H692FE436519B4B7500776BDED9244D29"><enum>(B)</enum><text>lists the specific provision or provisions of law under which the alien is excludable or ineligible for entry or adjustment of status.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF548BF2FF1724C90B1FD5FBEFBDEFA29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the requirements of paragraph (1) with respect to a particular alien or any class or classes of inadmissible aliens.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H28C1C41124664473A5E2CBDCDD21CC94"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Inapplicability</header><text>Paragraph (1) does not apply to any alien inadmissible under paragraph (2) or (3) of subsection (a).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD01C0861082C464AB1F6B8D900E4C116"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Special rules</header>
<paragraph id="HDF84D7B2BEEA4E0A9F4F222C545E0172"><enum>(1)</enum><header><quote>s</quote> nonimmigrants</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine whether a ground for inadmissibility exists with respect to a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(S). The Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may waive the application of subsection (a) (other than paragraph (3)(E)) in the case of a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(S), if the Attorney General considers it to be in the national interest to do so. Nothing in this section shall be regarded as prohibiting the Secretary from instituting removal proceedings against an alien admitted as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(S) for conduct committed after the alien’s admission into the United States, or for conduct or a condition that was not disclosed to the Secretary prior to the alien’s admission as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(S).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77FE0012D77E4E03A47524C01FA5AA30"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Documentary requirements for nonimmigrants</header><text>Either or both of the requirements of subsection (a)(7)(B)(i) may be waived by the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State acting jointly—</text>
<subparagraph id="H047F19089B15494FBC03D4094BB85695"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on the basis of unforeseen emergency in individual cases; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H557A1300A86A4ED99B176100FC8C784E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of aliens proceeding in immediate and continuous transit through the United States under contracts authorized in section 238(c).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8C870343952E4CD3968B25F842C9EDBA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Parole</header>
<subparagraph id="H202AF46DB1134E46A4AA5669F8FF0010"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may, except as provided in subparagraph (B) or in section 214(f), in the discretion of the Secretary, parole into the United States a Cuban or Iraqi national or, in the case of nationals of other countries, temporarily under such conditions as the Secretary may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant law enforcement reasons any alien applying for admission to the United States, but such parole shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the Secretary, have been served the alien shall forthwith return or be returned to the custody from which the alien was paroled and thereafter the case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as that of any other applicant for admission to the United States. Parole on a temporary basis cannot exceed 120 days, unless for a significant law enforcement reason. The Secretary may not parole into the United States an alien for urgent humanitarian reasons if the alien is inadmissible under paragraph (2), (3), or (9) of subsection (a).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDBB60E845C854A2D8EE8F39600ABC414"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Refugees</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may not parole into the United States an alien who is a refugee unless the Secretary determines that compelling reasons in the public interest with respect to that particular alien require that the alien be paroled into the United States rather than be admitted as a refugee under section 207.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77025B0329FA40AFAEC2EAB100D65635"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Aliens entering from Guam, Puerto Rico, or the virgin islands</header><text>The provisions of subsection (a) (other than paragraph (7)) shall be applicable to any alien who shall leave Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States, and who seeks to enter the continental United States or any other place under the jurisdiction of the United States. Any alien described in this paragraph, who is denied admission to the United States, shall be immediately removed in the manner provided by section 241(c) of this Act.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB8E4FDB94F484581A174A467002E47FC"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Foreign government officials</header><text>Upon a basis of reciprocity accredited officials of foreign governments, their immediate families, attendants, servants, and personal employees may be admitted in immediate and continuous transit through the United States without regard to the provisions of this section except paragraphs (3)(A), (3)(B), (3)(C), and (7)(B) of subsection (a) of this section.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFDE000D30BA34EB6BC32DE6EBC930628"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Smugglers</header><text>The Secretary may, in the discretion of the Secretary for urgent humanitarian reasons, waive application of subsection (a)(6)(E)(i) in the case of any alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of removal, and who is otherwise admissible to the United States as a returning resident under section 211(b) if the alien has encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided only an individual who at the time of such action was the alien’s spouse, parent, son, or daughter (and no other individual) to enter the United States in violation of law.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H79E5EA1BD272403689876B9B57795752"><enum>(7)</enum><header><quote>t</quote> nonimmigrants</header>
<subparagraph id="HB3FED3E922F24D71BB002FF9447BF2F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Determination</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine whether a ground for inadmissibility exists with respect to a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(T).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H57511106C4404AB79943C0DE16497EEE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>In addition to any other waiver that may be available under this section, in the case of a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(T), if the Secretary of Homeland Security considers it to be in the national interest to do so, the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may waive the application of—</text>
<clause id="H37F521C4DC1A460C81A3FA9BF0081FC7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>paragraphs (1) and (4) of subsection (a); and</text></clause>
<clause id="HD5B516DBA0A04CEF84101FF5FED79055"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any other provision of such subsection (excluding paragraphs (2), (3), (8), (9)(A), (10)(C), (10)(D), and (10)(E)) if the activities rendering the alien inadmissible under the provision were caused by the victimization described in section 101(a)(15)(T)(i)(I).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEDDCC462FFE7480EAAEF58CF56FFA2B0"><enum>(8)</enum><header><quote>u</quote> nonimmigrants</header>
<subparagraph id="H3CC3C1E298BD4FA5BE7E45B7804459D8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Determination</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall determine whether a ground for inadmissibility exists with respect to a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(U).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB04940533520407EAA63FDE81D9301FD"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>In addition to any other waiver that may be available under this section, in the case of a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(U), if the Secretary of Homeland Security considers it to be in the national interest to do so, the Secretary, in the Secretary’s discretion, may waive the application of—</text>
<clause id="H140C6A5A235548A4B7F2258C771E8B03"><enum>(i)</enum><text>paragraphs (1) and (4) of subsection (a); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H291FFB4677AF4AF1A48E5D82C289A3A4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any other provision of such subsection (excluding paragraphs (2), (3), (8), (9)(A), (10)(C), (10)(D), and (10)(E)) if the activities rendering the alien inadmissible under the provision were caused by the criminal activity described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HCAA262E788D94801A7469D3839C5928E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Suspension of entry</header><text>Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, the President may by proclamation, and for such period as the President shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions the President may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Secretary of Homeland Security finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Secretary relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Secretary may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE3E637735DBC48108633975F84BB8DC"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Waivers of health-related grounds</header>
<paragraph id="HBF0DF238F128417EB4E9CE8628AF3938"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the application of—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB01809ED942B4E1AACC769433112CD54"><enum>(A)</enum><text>subsection (a)(1)(A)(i) in the case of any alien who—</text>
<clause id="H659ACE5CB4EA433790D731FBC0A23127"><enum>(i)</enum><text>is the spouse or the unmarried son or daughter, or the minor unmarried lawfully adopted child, of a United States citizen, or of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or of an alien who has been issued an immigrant visa;</text></clause>
<clause id="HDF7806421AF744E0BEC89246E488AB45"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>has a son or daughter who is a United States citizen, or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien who has been issued an immigrant visa; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HA77E10025A1B474A89A700CB0270ABFD"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>qualifies for classification under clause (iii) or (iv) of section 204(a)(1)(A) or classification under clause (ii) or (iii) of section 204(a)(1)(B);</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">in accordance with such terms, conditions, and controls, if any, including the giving of bond, as the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the discretion of such Secretary after consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may by regulation prescribe;</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H92EE17D0F1FA4F6894BA7BD00AD4091"><enum>(B)</enum><text>subsection (a)(1)(A)(ii) in the case of any alien—</text>
<clause id="H6CE02733BE334E729DB861A2643EE5E8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>who receives vaccination against the vaccine-preventable disease or diseases for which the alien has failed to present documentation of previous vaccination;</text></clause>
<clause id="H69C6D076E0CF442295E24DB8F5BB9E39"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for whom a civil surgeon, medical officer, or panel physician (as those terms are defined by <external-xref legal-doc="regulation" parsable-cite="cfr/42/34.2">section 34.2</external-xref> of title 42, Code of Federal Regulations) certifies, according to such regulations as the Secretary of Health and Human Services may prescribe, that such vaccination would not be medically appropriate; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H88083A9D66304D6DB25522C2FC661564"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>under such circumstances as the Secretary of Homeland Security provides by regulation, with respect to whom the requirement of such a vaccination would be contrary to the alien’s religious beliefs or moral convictions; or</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2FC33DDBAA084104AA35AD7BB32D83B8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>subsection (a)(1)(A)(iii) in the case of any alien, in accordance with such terms, conditions, and controls, if any, including the giving of bond, as the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the discretion of such Secretary after consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may by regulation prescribe.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7EDDFF2486C243919B7B77F2F8AF66D9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Certificate of insurance</header><text>A waiver shall not be granted under this subsection unless the applicant has presented to the Secretary of Homeland Security a valid certificate of insurance covering all medical and hospital expenses that might be incurred during the period such alien has been admitted to the United States.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H32C01FA76DCA46779DB574392654695"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Waivers of criminal and related grounds</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may, in the discretion of the Secretary, waive the application of subparagraphs (A)(i)(I), (B), (D), and (E) of subsection (a)(2) and subparagraph (A)(i)(II) of such subsection insofar as it relates to a single offense of simple possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana if—</text>
<paragraph id="H0309F7E27809452A95E29997CCE8F29"><enum>(1)</enum>
<subparagraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6275436462114745B5CDCE9565B798A6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of any immigrant, it is established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Homeland Security that—</text>
<clause indent="up1" id="H1536CD7423DC4856917800F1B8DC918E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien is inadmissible only under subparagraph (D)(i) or (D)(ii) of such subsection or the activities for which the alien is inadmissible occurred more than 15 years before the date of the alien’s application for a visa, admission, or adjustment of status;</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H250B1E57A5484068AFEBD7E8BB261C50"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the admission to the United States of such alien would not be contrary to the national welfare, safety, or security of the United States; and</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H6238FACFE92641AB842C11F4E2B2ACF9"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the alien has been rehabilitated; or</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="H1E5A56CAD67E4A62B094F4007500D73B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of an immigrant who is the spouse, parent, son, or daughter of a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, if it is established to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the alien’s denial of admission would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to the United States citizen or lawfully resident spouse, parent, son, or daughter of such alien; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7210124CDA0C44679E6FC99D60412CE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Secretary, in the discretion of the Secretary, and pursuant to such terms, conditions, and procedures as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe, has consented to the alien’s applying or reapplying for a visa, for admission to the United States, or adjustment of status.</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">No waiver shall be provided under this subsection in the case of an alien who has been convicted of (or who has admitted committing acts that constitute) murder or criminal acts involving torture, or an attempt or conspiracy to commit murder or a criminal act involving torture. No waiver shall be granted under this subsection in the case of an alien who has previously been admitted to the United States as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence if either since the date of such admission the alien has been convicted of an aggravated felony or the alien has not lawfully resided continuously in the United States for a period of not less than 7 years immediately preceding the date of initiation of proceedings to remove the alien from the United States. No waiver shall be granted under this subsection in the case of any alien who is present in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Secretary of Homeland Security or is present in the United States without being admitted or paroled if either the alien has been convicted of an aggravated felony committed in the United States or the alien has not resided continuously in the United States for a period of not less than 7 years immediately preceding the date of initiation of proceedings to remove the alien from the United States. No court shall have jurisdiction to review a decision of the Secretary of Homeland Security to grant or deny a waiver under this subsection.</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA367D2EE4CC34C7387CA8CE76927ED00"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Aliens having immigrant visas</header><text>Any alien, inadmissible to the United States under paragraph (5)(A) or (7)(A)(i) of subsection (a), who is in possession of an immigrant visa may, if otherwise admissible, be admitted in the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland if the Secretary is satisfied that inadmissibility was not known to, and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence by, the immigrant before the time of departure of the vessel or aircraft from the last port outside the United States and outside foreign contiguous territory or, in the case of an immigrant coming from foreign contiguous territory, before the time of the immigrant’s application for admission.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H4CDA7C895EBE4592A4CB009BE0DBFF6F"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Waiver of documentation requirements for nonimmigrants</header>
<paragraph id="HF8C968C6A8314403B2C27638B7D18F5F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The requirement of subsection (a)(7)(B)(i) may be waived by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting jointly, in the case of an alien applying for admission as a nonimmigrant visitor for business or pleasure and solely for entry into and stay on Guam for a period not to exceed fifteen days, if the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, after consultation with the Governor of Guam, jointly determine that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HEE5C22CF456B4142B2C3EB00F03C62D1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an adequate arrival and departure control system has been developed on Guam; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF3561CAA90B746F4AC71B4FFAB48B709"><enum>(B)</enum><text>such a waiver does not represent a threat to the welfare, safety, or security of the United States or its territories and commonwealths.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H788C47208DF345C7B46797357F45EDF8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>An alien may not be provided a waiver under this subsection unless the alien has waived any right—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC64920829574488DB900E3C5049B2BD7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to review or appeal under this Act of an immigration officer’s determination as to the admissibility of the alien at the port of entry into Guam; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDC21ED370CAC4DE4A94DB2995579DF76"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to contest, other than on the basis of an application for asylum, any action for removal of the alien.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HD3A4A8B29481437FA1008F37BD8DE12C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Conditions on receipt of immigrant visas following departure</header><text>An alien who has been physically present in the United States shall not be eligible to receive an immigrant visa within ninety days following departure therefrom unless—</text>
<paragraph id="H0F26674FF298427E836CA4E985FB9C72"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the alien was maintaining a lawful nonimmigrant status at the time of such departure; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8AA41B84825541D4B6DEBE3B0051A9B2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the alien is the spouse or unmarried child of an individual who obtained temporary or permanent resident status under section 210 or 245A of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> or section 202 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 at any date, who—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8CE5BB4F468D43F281BADE6D94050009"><enum>(A)</enum><text>as of May 5, 1988, was the unmarried child or spouse of the individual who obtained temporary or permanent resident status under section 210 or 245A of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> or section 202 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9395BD64763344888E17BBB719702589"><enum>(B)</enum><text>entered the United States before May 5, 1988, resided in the United States on May 5, 1988, and is not a lawful permanent resident; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H973C6E249C1C4FB2003763EF2BF2C801"><enum>(C)</enum><text>applied for benefits under section 301(a) of the Immigration Act of 1990.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4BA80C9ED771483B8E66C883B58EE0"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Uncertified foreign health-care workers</header><text>Subsection (a)(5)(C) shall not apply to an alien who seeks to enter the United States for the purpose of performing labor as a nurse who presents to the consular officer (or in the case of an adjustment of status, the Secretary of Homeland Security) a certified statement from the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools (or an equivalent independent credentialing organization approved for the certification of nurses under subsection (a)(5)(C) by the Secretary of Homeland Security in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services) that—</text>
<paragraph id="H2D5AF8D6CFB647C6008D75D78354179D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the alien has a valid and unrestricted license as a nurse in a State where the alien intends to be employed and such State verifies that the foreign licenses of alien nurses are authentic and unencumbered;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7B3C37965F90470494604B4999A14404"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the alien has passed the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF6128A9EB9CA4B73ADF6B65241003903"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the alien is a graduate of a nursing program—</text>
<subparagraph id="H46BD69335A534D8E83847807BC1C0452"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in which the language of instruction was English;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H936EE2336693475FBBDEAC1EFB8C183C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>located in a country—</text>
<clause id="H71F2E2BA192748D88B618DF8DDDC1932"><enum>(i)</enum><text>designated by such commission not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999, based on such Commission’s assessment that the quality of nursing education in that country, and the English language proficiency of those who complete such programs in that country, justify the country’s designation; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H0F15FE27869C468D939E0573D4F44100"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>designated on the basis of such an assessment by unanimous agreement of such commission and any equivalent credentialing organizations which have been approved under subsection (a)(5)(C) for the certification of nurses under this subsection; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBB9F17D4598F45D8BA478BB97B32CCF6"><enum>(C)</enum>
<clause display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H1605DF5C09324350A939D1F2ED00DDB1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>which was in operation on or before the date of the enactment of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999; or</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H724822DCF3A74EEAB17D19F9EC1E47C2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>has been approved by unanimous agreement of such commission and any equivalent credentialing organizations which have been approved under subsection (a)(5)(C) for the certification of nurses under this subsection.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8C36C9B5D10C43F3B517E0A3C70120DF"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Public charge ground for family-sponsored immigrants</header><text>In determining whether an alien described in subsection (a)(4)(C)(i) is inadmissible under subsection (a)(4) or ineligible to receive an immigrant visa or otherwise to adjust to the status of permanent resident by reason of subsection (a)(4), the consular officer or the Secretary of Homeland Security shall not consider any benefits the alien may have received that were authorized under section 501 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1641">8 U.S.C. 1641(c)</external-xref>).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA5F4668FCA524DBEA1927105023ED763"><enum>(l)</enum><header>Special rules for certain cultural exchange participants</header>
<paragraph id="H6BCAC0CD762242C0BA2B2FD47E319500" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person admitted under section 101(a)(15)(Q)(ii)(I), or acquiring such status after admission, shall be eligible to apply for nonimmigrant status, an immigrant visa, or permanent residence under this Act until it is established that such person has resided and been physically present in the person's country of nationality or last residence for an aggregate of at least 2 years following departure from the United States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H77687F8C56DF4181918F99364404A3F9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the requirement of such 2-year foreign residence abroad if the Secretary determines that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H88F6A27522C34EB5861BC1D6E6BDFEA6" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">departure from the United States would impose exceptional hardship upon the alien's spouse or child (if such spouse or child is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence); or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCBD6341318AC4DACB82625334E00C5D1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the admission of the alien is in the public interest or the national interest of the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H5E9C3A705849480EBC91B38CA3EBB423"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H3D8DDAF3847546799BA20068CDB8FCC1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The following provisions of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> are amended by striking <quote>212(e)</quote> and inserting <quote>222(h)</quote>:</text>
<subparagraph id="HF0C6E4E145B24E249BAAB3056EB0CBE8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Paragraphs (1), (2)(A), and (3) of section 214(l) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(l)</external-xref>) .</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H971D363067804063A12D9FA9C100CCB8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Paragraphs (2) and (3)(B) of section 240A(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(c)</external-xref>).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H21EF2F428EE8466F985455BA0000D09"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 245A(a)(2)(C) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255a">8 U.S.C. 1255a(a)(2)(C)</external-xref>) .</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBFCF4DE227A94AA899043B2B96BE10C8"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Section 248(3) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1258">8 U.S.C. 1258(3)</external-xref>) .</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF92940CBD7AA4C2296C5AE32BF941E3B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 214 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1202">8 U.S.C. 1202</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBA1B1B09DD004E0C92E2941E4D141E84"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (p) (as added by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, as enacted into law by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/553">Public Law 106–553</external-xref>) as subsection (r);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9B6D9D6987F34DFBA922C2EC2DBF98FA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating the second subsection (o) (as added by the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, as enacted into law by <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/553">Public Law 106–553</external-xref>) as subsection (q);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3A0CF9E17CC94F8FA30593D8EF510DA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating the first subsection (o) as subsection (p);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFFD4A4F180FA4075B4F3EDA6024F22AD"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (n) as subsection (o); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H59F6B0F392934BB7A9019BF33733BF5"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by redesignating the second subsection (m) as subsection (n).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H96C0B80BB1EF4F5C901C3C01F76FA791"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 101(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4AFE51AEFA0D4DA79F16AA11B91282E5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (13)(B), by striking <quote>212(d)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H935D11BBFA274F0299C11E70CE03FB66"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (13)(C)(v), by striking <quote>212(h)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(f)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9787FCF0610B40B4BB9D33A72E47845"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(H)—</text>
<clause id="H75D9D5BAA1624F56A1ACBB189C4EFC33"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(j)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(s)(2)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H8200B795584442C9B1B235791000F6E6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(n)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(u)(1)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H044862A616A34B2C8CCF53E2D19891F7"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(m)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(t)(1)</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H11DCFE677117486BA8F92D03100F954"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(m)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(t)(2)</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H4259021C059147098507EA56206DAE16"><enum>(v)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(m)(6)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(t)(6)</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD81896AB23A04F2BB360AFD8B960D164"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(J), by striking <quote>212(j)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(s)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5EC5FFA8B465419C874629654FFEACFA"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(K), by striking <quote>(p) of section 214</quote> and inserting <quote>(r) of section 214</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD0A8C13520BF42AEBAF13DE974BD17D4"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(T)(i), by striking <quote>214(n)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(o)</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE2BC64B28CB0475DA7F87DE1D8480184"><enum>(G)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(U)(i), by striking <quote>214(o)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(p)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8213F4E919654142B18737A384A56616"><enum>(H)</enum><text>in paragraph (15)(V), by striking <quote>214(o)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(q)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4D5F17D668A6454CB5B536FB29D198DF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 201(c)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1151">8 U.S.C. 1151(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(d)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H95A3CC767BCB4E2384FE12C2DAB7DF73"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 214(a)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(l)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(h)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H26C27B8A297C45E1A7736200793E13A"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 214(e)(5) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(e)(5)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1D660B3345FA4C8B9DCCAA1DC3F02B9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(m)</quote> both places it appears and inserting <quote>214(t)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1A99B1CCA5F948A2B92C9DFAD927D974"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(n)</quote> and inserting <quote>214(u)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2662EF331C7248B2A2187F004881D126"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Section 214(f)(2)(A) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(f)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(d)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9493A6F4EA14413791671DCE77CA4C00"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Section 216(f) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1186a">8 U.S.C. 1186a(f)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>subsection (h) or (i) of section 212</quote> and inserting <quote>section 212(f)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4BA9BA6B09854060002475443545BBF"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Section 237(a)(1)(C)(ii) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(C)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(g)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(e)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H86EFC233D63344A300020000024DD087"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Section 240A(b)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(d)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24A5024AFE954318A297B9B1DD21D804"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Section 242(a)(2)(B)(i) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1252">8 U.S.C. 1252(a)(2)(B)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(h), 212(i),</quote> and inserting <quote>212(f),</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF3FB95E099614129A71D12D0D5F43B52"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Section 245(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2BEA6B8899274A75854959A515B69033"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(d)(4)(C)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(2)(C)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0FB4FE45B49F410396AB69F6C20505FB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(l)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(h)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01334B2F0B7048DFAA2C61FD76C70923"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Section 248 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1258">8 U.S.C. 1258</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>(or whose inadmissibility under such section is waived under section 212(a)(9)(B)(v))</quote> in the matter preceding paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5DBABC4BF2914A118C97C93057010015"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Section 248(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1258">8 U.S.C. 1258(4)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(l)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(h)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H746FE85CDF63409999142B04E26512F5"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Section 252(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1282">8 U.S.C. 1282(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>212(d)(3), section 212(d)(5),</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3),</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2977C9DC4F77407992D450F0975B7C33"><enum>(16)</enum><text>Paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 254(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1284">8 U.S.C. 1284(a)</external-xref>) are each amended by striking <quote>212(d)(5)</quote> and inserting <quote>212(c)(3)</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE120CFAF56C8414D912940BB4758D5D"><enum>(17)</enum><text>Section 286(s)(6) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1356">8 U.S.C. 1356(s)(6)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H24E3B401C2784352BFC3C9B7DAE8851"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(n)(1)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>214(u)(1)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE18449DEC0C74A87B54B70A09BF73012"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>212(n)(2)</quote> both places it appears and inserting <quote>214(u)(2)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H385BAC2CDC224B7DA04CE2BEEC9595D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect of the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to acts undertaken, and conditions existing, before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H50DACA2F092F4C3582E18FBDCD04BA00"><enum>205.</enum><header>Protection of U.S. specialty workers</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 214(u) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(u)</external-xref>), as so redesignated by this Act, is further amended as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H2E70F4E0B9CC4AB79642DA6494311C4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Paragraph (1)(E) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H706E88A6DC2D44D9B9C95BD37C86327C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(E)(i) In the case of an application described in clause (ii),</quote> and inserting <quote>(E)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC9986F09145A41ABA6C308003235A158"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking clause (ii).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H12153C3EE79742BEB5C708A5B565EF70"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Paragraph (1)(F) is amended by striking <quote>In the case of an application described in subparagraph (E)(ii), the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5AF92C2C4B334931B700FE82EDB148CB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Paragraph (1)(G) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H06EBFB9E48FA40D8BF1D9E67C5535FF0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(G)(i) In the case of an application described in subparagraph (E)(ii), subject to clause (ii),</quote> and inserting <quote>(G)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBA54FA3DC5904281AA4F1D4849B100DF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking clause (ii);</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H42889ECF1C9E41A18C110822B5CBBEC4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Paragraph (1) is amended in the matter following subparagraph (G)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBD0928FF41FF4D3188EE41FB03BF6F6F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending the 5th sentence to read as follows: <quote>The Secretary of Labor shall review such an application for completeness and accuracy.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H14EFBAA44A444A0795969433F782D6EC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the 6th sentence, by striking <quote>obviously</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6EADE8502AD64E9FA7FCD5AC48B3F974"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Paragraph (2)(C)(i) is amended by striking <quote>paragraph (1)(B), (1)(E), or (1)(F), a substantial failure to meet a condition of paragraph (1)(C), (1)(D), or (1)(G)(i)(I),</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (1),</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2D43ACF7AD3547A385F3564F555BD856"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Paragraph (2)(E) is amended to read as follows: <quote>If an employer places an H–1B nonimmigrant with a second employer whom the employer knows or had reason to know has ever displaced a United States worker during a period described in paragraph (1)(F), such displacement shall be considered to be a failure to meet a condition specified in an application submitted under paragraph (1).</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H04CD9EFD1B924C2EAAC7BD212DB5C45"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Paragraphs (3) and (5) are repealed.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="HD15E7989697C4B84A4899635CF32DC64"><enum>206.</enum><header>Antifraud fee</header>
<subsection id="H2A6FF7E256744727BAB88EFC59DAD878"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Imposition of fee</header>
<paragraph id="HE18FB0E460CA47B0AFE5DFA478E9D8E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Chapter 9 of title II of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1351">8 U.S.C. 1351 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after section 281 the following:</text>
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<section id="HF6CED94F7EE843D1BBA0E48216C0A44C"><enum>281A.</enum><header>Antifraud fee</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6AF74340692D4C10B694B860038C4FB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In addition to any other fees authorized by law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall impose an antifraud fee on a petitioner filing a petition for classification under section 204, or a petition for an alien’s status as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15) (excluding status under subparagraph (A), (B), (G), or (S) of such section).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFA718DAF00F6410C9FB50095008F3C46"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amount</header><text>The amount of the fee shall be $100 for each such petition.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9721DDBECE2648F782E859BC185545A9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Disposition</header><text>Fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the Treasury in accordance with section 286(w).</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC8B9348BE9F3427685B42E8DD672030"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 281 the following:</text>
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<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">281A. Antifraud fee</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC5A18AB2481B4D7D90A7B248F530439"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Establishment of account; use of fees</header><text>Section 286 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1356">8 U.S.C. 1356</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H7B75D32136AE4A9CBCBCCC86440087AB"><enum>(w)</enum><header>Antifraud Account</header>
<paragraph id="H39A839F82F9E4EF086F69FE17658A0BC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>There is established in the general fund of the Treasury a separate account which shall be known as the <quote>Antifraud Account</quote>. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be deposited as offsetting receipts into the account all fees collected under section 281A.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H64E0B9325D354284BDE6EAE992585400"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use of fees to combat fraud</header>
<subparagraph id="HB2BA0729D943407EAF6ED4B221AA5990"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Secretary of Homeland Security</header>
<clause id="HC3860DAD5EA44960B748A397213F9187"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Programs to eliminate fraud</header><text>20 percent of amounts deposited into the Antifraud Account shall remain available to the Secretary of Homeland Security until expended for programs and activities to eliminate fraud by petitioners and beneficiaries with respect to immigrant visa petitions under section 204 or status under section 101(a)(15) (excluding status under subparagraph (A), (B), (G), or (S) of such section).</text></clause>
<clause id="H1C0E878232F84D908BFA9EB525521CCD"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Removal of aliens</header><text>20 percent of amounts deposited into the Antifraud Account shall remain available to the Secretary of Homeland Security until expended for the removal of aliens who are deportable under section 237(a)(1)(A) by reason of having been found to be within the class of aliens inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(C).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H99401013F6234BE0A76D7502EF72105B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Secretary of State</header><text>40 percent of the amounts deposited into the Antifraud Account shall remain available to the Secretary of State until expended for programs and activities to eliminate fraud by petitioners and beneficiaries described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H76E3DB91571A4FEDBDA811B770546816"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Joint programs</header><text>20 percent of amounts deposited into the Antifraud Account shall remain available to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State until expended for programs and activities conducted by them jointly to eliminate fraud by petitioners and beneficiaries described in subparagraph (A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HC1DFA48E8B3F4314A67E10972E49DC9D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>III</enum><header>Tracking aliens present in the United States</header>
<section id="HA2FDE9A1542947F38D1387191EEAE637"><enum>301.</enum><header>Entry-exit system</header>
<subsection id="H5C44C113B9364000ADB3D0A7860925DB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Integrated entry and exit data system</header><text>Section 110(b)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1221">8 U.S.C. 1221</external-xref> note) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HAB01EDDE959141B6A9E258437D68F000"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provides access to, and integrates, arrival and departure data of all aliens who arrive and depart at ports of entry, in an electronic format and in a database of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of State (including those created or used at ports of entry and at consular offices);</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H540704D9BE704681AA38BD553E699E2F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Section 110(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1221">8 U.S.C. 1221</external-xref> note) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H1C261355CBE040F590F7DD7707DF86C2">
<subsection id="HFE18562B1E7C4C72007FE8008E0621C4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Nothing in this section shall be construed to reduce or curtail any authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary of State under any other provision of law.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H2115C05FEA2C4951B8D4B9BB8C249061"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deadlines</header><text>Section 110(d) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1221">8 U.S.C. 1221</external-xref> note) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB5F86AE351EE45B685B005F031397B9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>December 31</quote> and inserting <quote>October 26</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3D4CA1E4AC9D44CD9EBE3D9B496CFEFE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HF9A87F034BE7499381B469E94F1F9B53"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Land border ports of entry</header><text>Not later than October 26, 2005, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall implement the integrated entry and exit data system using the data described in paragraph (1) and available alien arrival and departure data described in subsection (b)(1) pertaining to aliens arriving in, or departing from, the United States at all land border ports of entry. Such implementation shall include ensuring that such data, when collected or created by an immigration officer at a port of entry, are entered into the system and can be accessed by immigration officers at airports, seaports, and other land border ports of entry.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCA95547A5B6F477892E0762F973EB8DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (3).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4EFE13C1B1D44C52BC578D41D2F345C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Authority to provide access to system</header><text>Section 110(f)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1221">8 U.S.C. 1221</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HE51E4F5663FE4A809FC32080E129F679"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that any officer or employee of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of State having need to access the data contained in the integrated entry and exit data system for any lawful purpose under the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> has such access, including access for purposes of representation of the Department of Homeland Security in removal proceedings under section 240 of such Act and adjudication of applications for benefits under such Act.</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HF637438A7DD84F0F94FD876EF8183CD5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Waiver available</header><text>If the President determines in writing, with respect to a fiscal or calendar year, that a waiver of one or more of the amendments made by this section is desirable and would not threaten the national security of the United States, the President may waive the effectiveness of such amendment or amendments with respect to such year.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H86531C8B1C6640D9934F418B5916A5FD"><enum>302.</enum><header>Collection of information regarding foreign students</header>
<subsection id="H2BF04E8BF9B44B718F65DE7FCEF7F14D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Course of study</header><text>Section 641(c)(1)(C) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1372">8 U.S.C. 1372(c)(1)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>including</quote> the following: <quote>each course of study the student has taken and is taking at the institution and</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HAF45EC3278524BEBA541C1A85C3CC681"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation of program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants</header><text>Section 641(d)(2) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1372">8 U.S.C. 1372(d)(2)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H819577C0B0724D97B69840E0CEA8BE9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effect of failure to provide information</header><text>During any period on or after the date of the enactment of the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005, if an approved institution of higher education or a designated exchange visitor program fails to provide the information described in subsection (c) through the program described in subsection (a), all approvals described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1), and all grants of authority described in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph, with respect to such institution or exchange visitor program shall be revoked.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="HD717C9A3AB3A4DC5AA789DC4B377C4B"><enum>303.</enum><header>Alien registration</header>
<subsection id="H20EAEFBFC7A843668665E2E00067BEF3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 262 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1302">8 U.S.C. 1302</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="H3FA2655D4BFE46DABE802BDCFDBC25AE"><enum>262.</enum><header>Registration of aliens in the United States</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H6E099C2724E9448098138BE75D92EDE1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Initial registration</header>
<paragraph id="H5110F1A1456643B4806F39C7136C10F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It shall be the duty of every alien now or hereafter in the United States, who (1) is fourteen years of age or older, (2) has not been registered and fingerprinted under section 221(b) of this Act or section 30 or 31 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, and (3) remains in the United States for thirty days or longer, to apply for registration and to be fingerprinted before the expiration of such thirty days.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC4813D8326E840C9878BDF7FFDD0F442"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Minors</header><text>It shall be the duty of every parent or legal guardian of any alien now or hereafter in the United States, who (1) is less than fourteen years of age, (2) has not been registered under section 221(b) of this Act or section 30 or 31 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, and (3) remains in the United States for thirty days or longer, to apply for the registration of such alien before the expiration of such thirty days. Whenever any alien attains his fourteenth birthday in the United States he shall, within thirty days thereafter, apply in person for registration and to be fingerprinted.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H712D7EBF10AD43829687F7A642E68C29"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subsequent registrations</header>
<paragraph id="HC0C1CA5838A94910B9CDF016DD08C239"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Permanent residents</header><text>In addition to any other registration otherwise required under this Act or any other Act, each alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence shall annually register with the Secretary of Homeland Security, regardless of whether there has been any change in the alien’s address. This requirement shall commence on the first anniversary of the date on which the alien acquired the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence that occurs after the enactment of the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB0142788E29F40CC802BED379016D500"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other aliens</header><text>In addition to any other registration otherwise required under this Act or any other Act, every alien in the United States, other than an alien described in paragraph (1), shall register with the Secretary of Homeland Security at the expiration of each 3-month period during which the alien remains in the United States, regardless of whether there has been any change in the alien’s address. This requirement shall commence on the 60th day after the alien enters the United States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H294DFFB2BF98413BAF4B01C8172752CA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Minors</header><text>In the case of an alien who is less than fourteen years of age, a parent or legal guardian of the alien may carry out this subsection on behalf of the alien.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1AAEF3E368F34F268DFCC850008331AC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Change of address</header>
<paragraph id="H0E2F3B4D442948669DD5FAC800F9CDD7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each alien required to be registered under this title who is within the United States shall notify the Secretary of Homeland Security in writing of each change of address and new address within ten days from the date of such change and furnish with such notice such additional information as the Secretary may require by regulation.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE4A2BB54FACA46B5AE48D93B7E32CF33"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Certain foreign States</header>
<subparagraph id="HACEDF02E943C4619A0799DAD754200A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may, in the discretion of the Secretary, upon ten days notice, require the natives of any one or more foreign states, or any class or group thereof, who are within the United States and who are required to be registered under this title, to notify the Secretary of their current addresses and furnish such additional information as the Secretary may require.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7A38830AAF68458B84CCD010D8DDFA9D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notice for minors</header><text>In the case of an alien for whom a parent or legal guardian is required to apply for registration, the notice required by this section shall be given to such parent or legal guardian.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCEC85C53E5F04DE9BC1DD0F6F7F1BC13"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Minors</header><text>In the case of an alien who is less than fourteen years of age, a parent or legal guardian of the alien may carry out this subsection on behalf of the alien.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFC05285DBF504D5C9114B9D00C78844"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and the alien’s spouse and children, if the alien is a member of the armed forces of the United States serving on active duty (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/10/101">section 101(d)</external-xref> of title 10, United States Code).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H737B97870F714CF2A9D5FA07E3CAB5B0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Forms</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall prepare forms for registrations and change of address notifications required under this section. Such forms shall contain inquiries to obtain the following information:</text>
<paragraph id="H9DF0AC79A7E34A5E8EDBA4EE142E9CD1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Full name and aliases.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEF896C3D7701432C937B84D772EAF5F2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Current address.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCFB2BC4A60474A3A8239982EB9FAA976"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Date of birth.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H44427D4BE30D483C8749D286147ED26D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Visa category.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H677F5655808744869CC12183C900AD3B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Date of entry into the United States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H43B11102098442A5BE18F200BB4E8D16"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Termination date of authorization to remain in the United Sates, if any.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB6F0BF7BBFF6458193ABCD04D8D640C0"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Signature.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7F5098A0A5904563A41E5C9C8E003748"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Biometric feature of the alien.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB6D9389A7AED48AB9F28249585373805"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Any additional information that the Secretary of Homeland Security determines to be necessary.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HED8A44B28755441FADEADD5E189C9526"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Information technology system</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish and operate an information technology system for the electronic collection, compilation, and maintenance of the information submitted under this section. Such system shall permit any alien address in the United States that has been registered with the Secretary, and the date of such registration, to be accessed by any officer or employee of the Department of Homeland Security having need for such access for any lawful purpose under the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H490601D997B5424FA49D11DF00528736"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section 265 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1305">8 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>) is repealed and the table of contents is amended by striking the item relating to such section.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC3D0403E8694ACFB5D44EDEDBB61D7D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HD0349D51B6B34CBBB3068F2554B200FD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Removal for failure to comply</header><text>Section 237(a)(3)(A) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(3)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>265</quote> and inserting <quote>262</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H34AD94905DE54F3D97E5642336CA5BD2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Registration of special groups</header><text>Section 263(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1303">8 U.S.C. 1303(b)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>(excluding subsection (c) of such section)</quote> after <quote>262</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFA0295ADF9AC4856A87D4DFEEF466D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Forms and procedure</header><text>Section 264(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1304">8 U.S.C. 1304(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>of this title, and the Attorney General is authorized and directed to prepare forms for the registration and fingerprinting of aliens under section 262 of this title.</quote> and inserting a period.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H520F8592D0BC450D81D1EA9D8D3F28A0"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Penalties</header><text>Section 266 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1306">8 U.S.C. 1306</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>265</quote> each place such term appears and inserting <quote>262</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H71D62679A47842F2006E829E4B6EE5A5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the implementation of section 262 of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>, as amended by this section, and the results of such implementation.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2EF94C181F0242A5952E713F56345F3D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H83199A47A5024780929400D217DABB09"><enum>304.</enum><header>Visa term compliance bonds</header>
<subsection id="H93650736F7164D79B75C23E254F05F25"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For purposes of this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H526FDB89732F4884B0BE8200CCD4C8BC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Visa term compliance bond</header><text>The term <term>visa term compliance bond</term> means a written suretyship undertaking entered into by an alien individual seeking admission to the United States of America on a nonimmigrant visa whose performance is guaranteed by a bail agent.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2075AB6272F742738F428DB6B5CE8BC9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Suretyship undertaking</header><text>The term <term>suretyship undertaking</term> means a written agreement, executed by a bail agent, which binds all parties to its certain terms and conditions and which provides obligations for the visa applicant while under the bond and penalties for forfeiture to ensure the obligations of the principal under the agreement.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE19D283145234099A65D32D603009931"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Bail agent</header><text>The term <term>bail agent</term> means any individual properly licensed, approved, and appointed by power of attorney to execute or countersign bail bonds in connection with judicial proceedings and who receives a premium.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2977645C3CFF4B849C75FF55AC7E4BE2"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Surety</header><text>The term <term>surety</term> means an entity, as defined by, and that is in compliance with, sections 9304 through 9308 of title 31, United States Code, that agrees—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3AB2A8A973994CC7B5C233F577212CBD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to guarantee the performance, where appropriate, of the principal under a visa term compliance bond;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7FDC3AB2DD554A9FB2D7AB0941077F83"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to perform as required in the event of a forfeiture; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9EC091AE97204F99BE535C6C93B3478F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to pay over the principal (penal) sum of the bond for failure to perform.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6729579BE0184DCB9E946F5F5453A637"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Issuance of bond</header><text>A consular officer may require an applicant for a nonimmigrant visa, as a condition for granting such application, to obtain a visa term compliance bond.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H18C82037CDD642BBBB13C1A5E4F0D0E8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Validity, expiration, renewal, and cancellation of bonds</header>
<paragraph id="HC71AF66474B547ABBBBF00B0947E4CCC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Validity</header><text>A visa term compliance bond undertaking is valid if it—</text>
<subparagraph id="H287FFF662F6248E7AE96E0D61150F7F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>states the full, correct, and proper name of the alien principal;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE6AE01F4CF5F4336964B7CF27F835881"><enum>(B)</enum><text>states the amount of the bond;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB04343C615564FCF9F97EAB1AB62F704"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is guaranteed by a surety and countersigned by an attorney-in-fact who is properly appointed;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBC72C88113414E099DA371DBDD64219"><enum>(D)</enum><text>is an original signed document;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H413B75F91BBC4B97B2C2FD69857B65"><enum>(E)</enum><text>is filed with the Secretary of Homeland Security along with the original application for a visa; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCF3F29B657004100B8C1D37D8670E75D"><enum>(F)</enum><text>is not executed by electronic means.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6425302EEA3045CEB6BAB0AA61B0007B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expiration</header><text>A visa term compliance bond undertaking shall expire at the earliest of—</text>
<subparagraph id="H52F46D1EEA1F4A98BDED434BAAFBCF9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>1 year from the date of issue;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCB25C92EB10744ABAC7B9519C5FC06D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>at the expiration, cancellation, or surrender of the visa; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9EDB628720EC46578FAE337BB8E14065"><enum>(C)</enum><text>immediately upon nonpayment of the premium.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H82857C6E30A2414DB965BB1176C39B5F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Renewal</header><text>The bond may be renewed—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA08E3CE9F8424A9B9D334CEE98EFC805"><enum>(A)</enum><text>annually with payment of proper premium at the option of the bail agent or surety; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H223DD6A6D6D64C26ACEF77E22896B51F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provided there has been no breech of conditions, default, claim, or forfeiture of the bond.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAD7F002025124220953F25EAB1CAEBC5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Cancellation</header><text>The bond shall be canceled and the surety and bail agent exonerated—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF4AD5465CF264A5E964B00002DCEEFDD"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for nonrenewal;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H2B59151BEAEC45C8AA1924EF6D67EE42"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the surety or bail agent provides reasonable evidence that there was misrepresentation or fraud in the application for the bond;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0DC46410AF284A628C2D00DD2F244E8F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>upon termination of the visa;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H825AA7A83571490AA2BF62484EB7E469"><enum>(D)</enum><text>upon death, incarceration of the principal, or the inability of the surety to produce the principal for medical reasons;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD28E5A14CAF34EEF9B53E584F4B41BD6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>if the principal is detained in any city, State, country, or political subdivision thereof;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD2AFC4D3614940E789D48552963D38EB"><enum>(F)</enum><text>if the principal departs from the United States of America for any reason without permission of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the surety or bail agent; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEA574B020D2240CBB15B7FB0507558F4"><enum>(G)</enum><text>if the principal is surrendered by the surety.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9AC677E36E3A461B8D623B00D65100F0"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Effect of expiration or cancellation</header><text>When a visa term compliance bond expires without being immediately renewed, or is canceled, the nonimmigrant status of the alien shall be revoked immediately.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H67EF576BFC3C40F5BA05E1B4A6FDF1F2"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Surrender of principal; forfeiture of bond premium</header>
<subparagraph id="H6560862A17C5422DAA6B61BF733C66FE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Surrender</header><text>At any time before a breach of any of the conditions of the bond, the surety or bail agent may surrender the principal, or the principal may surrender, to any office or facility of the Department of Homeland Security charged with immigration enforcement or border protection.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H41BCA8C5B9E3441DA8FDFA23522267FA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Forfeiture of bond premium</header><text>A principal may be surrendered without the return of any bond premium if the visa holder—</text>
<clause id="HF0CFEC1970984C2B8EB01432B5E8357F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>changes address without notifying the surety or bail agent and the Secretary of Homeland Security in writing at least 60 days prior to such change;</text></clause>
<clause id="H7EC45428EB214546B9927D44A87CCBC2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>changes schools, jobs, or occupations without written permission of the surety, bail agent, and the Secretary;</text></clause>
<clause id="H3AAF0AB6500F40AAB2B840E46BA5599"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>conceals himself or herself;</text></clause>
<clause id="H7B176C42BC574B76BAF25EBB00155E9F"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>fails to report to the Secretary as required at least annually; or</text></clause>
<clause id="HF03CFB8C1F7C44D497A0C85C3FCDE1F7"><enum>(v)</enum><text>violates the contract with the bail agent or surety, commits any act that may lead to a breech of the bond, or otherwise violates any other obligation or condition of the visa established by the Secretary.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBD8908EC6E8446FCB0503F20DD29498D"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Certified copy of undertaking or warrant to accompany surrender</header>
<subparagraph id="H9D72C9F1B664468AA0006CC7DAD950BE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A person desiring to make a surrender of the visa holder—</text>
<clause id="H2DCCF9BCD1904A1400A038DD21C136DE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall have the right to petition any Federal court for an arrest warrant for the arrest of the visa holder;</text></clause>
<clause id="H20B0474EBDA2462994DFA6A155F57C3C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>shall forthwith be provided a certified copy of the arrest warrant and the undertaking; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HB7D374390E824D7D8C1F9C1BE8C2905"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>shall have the right to pursue, apprehend, detain, and deliver the visa holder, together with the certified copy of the arrest warrant and the undertaking, to any official or facility of the Department of Homeland Security charged with immigration enforcement or border protection or any detention facility authorized to hold Federal detainees.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBE0B48428F5340E691F3F845D68E06D1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Effects of delivery</header><text>Upon delivery of a person under subparagraph (A)(iii)—</text>
<clause id="H5EBA97F9A25940CF9EE16F4BB0626DCD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the official to whom the delivery is made shall detain the visa holder in custody and issue a written certificate of surrender; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HDFAEA5C479204C82AFBC4B8ED9F6600"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the court issuing the warrant described in subparagraph (A)(i) and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall immediately exonerate the surety and bail agent from any further liability on the bond.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1895D1C8F3A446FA969FB8069073EF81"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Form of bond</header><text>A visa term compliance bond shall in all cases state the following and be secured by a surety:</text>
<subparagraph id="HBDD619B942994B028B77D7CB7985C869"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Breech of bond; procedure, forfeiture, notice</header>
<clause id="H0117F0BF9B8C4E92A0525112E8E67B17"><enum>(i)</enum><text>If a visa holder violates any conditions of the visa or the visa bond the Secretary of Homeland Security shall—</text>
<subclause id="HEC6BDE16D51741B592328FF89D9C0066"><enum>(I)</enum><text>order the visa canceled;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H66D69D7F805B45E38DAD659737119F38"><enum>(II)</enum><text>immediately obtain a warrant for the visa holder’s arrest;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6D80C1B4B23F41AF88E6BF9D611107F8"><enum>(III)</enum><text>order the bail agent and surety to take the visa holder into custody and surrender the visa holder to the Secretary; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6346D01D524442358DE07598071F888"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>mail notice to the bail agent and surety via certified mail return receipt at each of the addresses in the bond.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H8146E7AABC9443A3BE0292B414DA521F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>A bail agent or surety shall have full and complete access to any and all information, electronic or otherwise, in the care, custody, and control of the United States Government or any State or local government or any subsidiary or police agency thereof regarding the visa holder needed to comply with section 304 of the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005 that the court issuing the warrant believes is crucial in locating the visa holder.</text></clause>
<clause id="HE522048648354CABA66C8E4BDCD53C4E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>If the visa holder is later arrested, detained, or otherwise located outside the United States and the outlying possessions of the United States (as defined in section 101(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall—</text>
<subclause id="HE792A698AA1147C891790900E7D4166E"><enum>(I)</enum><text>order that the bail agent and surety are completely exonerated, and the bond canceled and terminated; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HF4F2187BF1B547AB00F8504C29EDEB00"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if the Secretary has issued an order under clause (i), the surety may request, by written, properly filed motion, reinstatement of the bond. This subclause may not be construed to prevent the Secretary from revoking or resetting a higher bond.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HDED294FEB7684A09AC05F0567E1CCB02"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The bail agent or surety must—</text>
<subclause id="H219323E13C874D9C9CDA004FDFE791F8"><enum>(I)</enum><text>produce the visa bond holder; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H7D59F75D00A34CBA006919A363E87087"><enum>(II)</enum>
<item display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H3DA67FA0FF784B0C8E934EC0007FF379"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>prove within 180 days that producing the bond holder was prevented—</text></item>
<item id="HC3E793EB590649C4BF03204C1E5D549D"><enum>(aaa)</enum><text>by the bond holder’s illness or death;</text></item>
<item id="H31FF989042E14E2392FC76829BD74EB9"><enum>(bbb)</enum><text>because the bond holder is detained in custody in any city, State, country, or political subdivision thereof;</text></item>
<item id="HF0C878B808964CD29B007F8E309999BF"><enum>(ccc)</enum><text>because the bond holder has left the United States or its outlying possessions (as defined in section 101(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>); or</text></item>
<item id="H11E089E3CF83417893167136CC872826"><enum>(ddd)</enum><text>because required notice was not given to the bail agent or surety; and</text></item>
<item indent="up1" id="HA2E310366D2741B293C699A7C04569C0"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>prove within 180 days that the inability to produce the bond holder was not with the consent or connivance of the bail agent or sureties.</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H3440BEB6EDAB4E948394B52C5E7FBF51"><enum>(v)</enum><text>If the bail agent or surety does not comply with the terms of this bond within 60 days after the mailing of the notice required under subparagraph (A)(i)(IV), a portion of the face value of the bond shall be assessed as a penalty against the surety.</text></clause>
<clause id="H5D45F54CA8214BAFB0A5ECA26C0FB5F"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>If compliance occurs more than 60 days but no more than 90 days after the mailing of the notice, the amount assessed shall be one-third of the face value of the bond.</text></clause>
<clause id="H8A2C79E92E5549D0B4A7D64DF7DE0AF"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>If compliance occurs more than 90 days, but no more than 180 days, after the mailing of the notice, the amount assessed shall be two-thirds of the face value of the bond.</text></clause>
<clause id="H2E43AD04767542B7B8C62928778B9685"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>If compliance does not occur within 180 days after the mailing of the notice, the amount assessed shall be 100 percent of the face value of the bond.</text></clause>
<clause id="H00708CA3E7C144B4A61C287223E62C30"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>All penalty fees shall be paid by the surety within 45 days after the end of such 180-day period.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HDE98E7CCC7EC43A492D5F1869543708"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may waive the penalty fees or extend the period for payment or both, if—</text>
<clause id="H86A2906C1DD04406BEAB556B52F5C236"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a written request is filed with the Secretary; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HF9D084A22A1A442EB3733FCE092BC43D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the bail agent or surety provides evidence satisfactory to the Secretary that diligent efforts were made to effect compliance of the visa holder.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1B48A0350E40497A99DE0B9446000C4"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Compliance; exoneration; limitation of liability</header>
<clause id="H2163B7A58E8F42A1BECE9734B213004B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Compliance</header><text>The bail agent or surety shall have the absolute right to locate, apprehend, arrest, detain, and surrender any visa holder, wherever he or she may be found, who violates any of the terms and conditions of the visa or bond.</text></clause>
<clause id="H3825EA7AEE9B4C8CA3929777C118F5A5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Exoneration</header><text>Upon satisfying any of the requirements of the bond, the surety shall be completely exonerated.</text></clause>
<clause id="HCF7D450610314488BCC8733B1EB0F943"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Limitation of liability</header><text>The total liability on any undertaking shall not exceed the face amount of the bond.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H44B4DB9AC2354955B48BC500E4E57F9B"><enum>305.</enum><header>Release of aliens in removal proceedings</header>
<subsection id="H27366978BD65454B92DF5C7B14DAD693"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 236(a)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H824DAB9B48774C45A5097491A0BBEC17">
<paragraph id="HB70298931E85456094C847D8214326EC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>subject to section 241(a)(8), may release the alien on bond of at least $10,000, with security approved by, and containing conditions prescribed by, the Secretary of Homeland Security, but the Secretary shall not release the alien on or to his own recognizance unless an order of an immigration judge expressly finds that the alien is not a flight risk and is not a threat to the United States; and</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H16D0714AE26E4118A57DA1ECE2BA009B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HDFC864C82C3345C496B278D798766C5"><enum>306.</enum><header>Detention of aliens delivered by bondsmen</header>
<subsection id="H950E7735B3C2490395341000FD99F9F5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 241(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1231">8 U.S.C. 1231(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H99A036EB1AD745318480B1925F997F09">
<paragraph id="H18241FE2DE8F4958BFE01F1FA2EA7716"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Effect of production of alien by bondsman</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into custody any alien subject to a final order of removal, and cancel any bond previously posted for the alien, if the alien is produced within the prescribed time limit by the obligor on the bond. The obligor on the bond shall be deemed to have substantially performed all conditions imposed by the terms of the bond, and shall be released from liability on the bond, if the alien is produced within such time limit.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H4A033FFAFE204B27A831449C98461F59"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to all immigration bonds posted before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<enum>IV</enum><header>Removing alien terrorists, criminals, and human rights violators</header>
<subtitle id="H261668D02A45432C84157875929E9B17"><enum>A</enum><header>Removing alien terrorists</header>
<section id="HAE8B043750AF4448A77C73E10003FB6"><enum>401.</enum><header>Deportability of terrorists, national security threats, and serious foreign crimes</header>
<subsection id="HC4E9E0D63E504845B4E050A1CCEDCF25"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 237(a)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H60D85CC1015147C79964A257C443A99C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H69EA591F5B854251B600CCBA8E589883">
<subparagraph id="HB0701F72A49F4A5F80AE422D4CAF65B4"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Terrorist activities</header><text>Any alien who would be considered inadmissible pursuant to section 212(a)(3)(B) is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0FF4D1125F60472C8F52628DD3978DEA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HAC9EAC11EEB746BC839484E6EEC07C4">
<subparagraph id="HAB5BA989DCA8462C8BE6BFA1904ED06D"><enum>(E)</enum><header>National security consequences</header><text>An alien described in section 212(a)(3)(G) is deportable.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF44546CEECD54067B0948926DEDB117B"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Serious foreign crimes</header><text>An alien described in section 212(a)(3)(H) is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F6AF7D85729465983DB3937F0F272BC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to conduct occurring before, on, or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HADE26118381249B8B1B17B2539644498"><enum>402.</enum><header>Administrative removal of alien terrorists</header>
<subsection id="H2F8758D886EE49BC93E9AA004F1B1D92"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 238 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1228">8 U.S.C. 1228</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8ED7DBF379FC466F00D78B1BCBD34DF0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading, by striking <quote>aliens convicted of committing aggravated felonies</quote> and inserting <quote>certain aliens</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H236409535B754F239EC5C0051D9092E0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the heading of subsection (a), by inserting <quote>Institutional</quote> before <quote>Removal</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC912B8977D954A50A34749B557F7A164"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1), by striking <quote>241</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>237</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D7432511D5B47B7AD9C80F86975D517"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by amending the heading of subsection (b) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H623304EC7F95489F812167917F25A566">
<subsection id="H5024460A99EA40FE9E4EE51D5833D79C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Proceedings for the administrative Removal of aliens</header></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1CB5C952D0A047068E49CB8F714E9D26"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by amending subsection (b)(1) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H2CC4C12C21E541169F2ED500013F192B">
<paragraph id="HCD7C6DCCEDA94368B838B4001C97ABF6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may—</text>
<subparagraph id="H58C3FB9454154657B03806E3E49F1BE3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the case of an alien described in paragraph (2), determine the deportability of such alien under section 237(a)(2)(A)(iii) (relating to conviction of an aggravated felony); or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H29FD3D3E388F4B01859406C3A0A6B0A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of an alien certified under paragraph (2)(C), determine the deportability of such alien under any provision of section 237,</text></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">and issue an order of removal pursuant to the procedures set forth in this subsection or section 240.</continuation-text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFAA592CA7AFC44FF94979151183460F6"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H9C2CE5FAEE6C466A0056CCD7F8AB48CC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF36BE3992126416DBDD9BC08D4E9FF30"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H67C950B6A10B4B879054DA7E8800D8F9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HAFD5F86F51F34437B9FB1B359F391B86">
<subparagraph id="HBF961D592C39408DA400510089601E34"><enum>(C)</enum><text>has been certified by the Secretary of Homeland Security, pursuant to paragraph (6), which certification is not reviewable except as provided in subsection (b)(7).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCB63FE03261B468EBC51D384DA6388E4"><enum>(7)</enum><text>by adding at the end of subsection (b) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD2B763C8313147489DFD9206A74BEC8C">
<paragraph id="H217EA5C26D7944CC91C21BD4EA702BAC"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may certify an alien under this paragraph if the Secretary has reasonable grounds to believe that the alien—</text>
<subparagraph id="H14ED35BC35884492B666FE36DF432F10"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is described in section 212(a)(3)(A)(i), 212(a)(3)(A)(iii), 212(a)(3)(B), 237(a)(4)(A)(i), 237(a)(4)(A)(iii), or 237(a)(4)(B); or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H62CF8B59BE754EDAB1DD79072E1D26C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is engaged in any other activity that endangers the national security of the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2E36896F888D49FC00CA7B031FB650"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Nondelegation</header><text>The Secretary may delegate the authority provided under paragraph (6) only to the Deputy Secretary. The Deputy Secretary may not delegate such authority.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB095608A27B148EC85712E5937A59FB8"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judicial review of an order under paragraph (2)(C) shall be available only by a filing in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H342D334EC97C477A944CAEEAC551DC4"><enum>(8)</enum><text>by striking the first subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H6A2DCB33B88A49B282CD288F56D679E4">
<subsection id="H0DB802A16DAE43A199DC34144D2F3177"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Presumption of removability</header><text>An alien convicted of an aggravated felony, or certified pursuant to section 238(b)(2)(C), shall be conclusively presumed to be removable from the United States.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H61D532FECE02407BA7F19C01B35D75A0"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by redesignating the second subsection (c) (redesignated as such by section 671(b)(13) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) as subsection (d).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBE418BB75E364524B0F200D8AA070068"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to aliens in removal proceedings on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H861F16AFCDB4447EAC730007B8E1C8F0"><enum>403.</enum><header>Asylum petitions by members of terrorist organizations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (1) of section 208(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>In any case in which there may be more than one motive for persecution, the alien bears the burden of showing that such persecution was or would be inflicted solely on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H188BF7902B1A452FABE4944BA300E2EB"><enum>404.</enum><header>Expatriation of terrorists</header>
<subsection id="H305A6816608F4A1198C43597387C7900"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 349 of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1481">8 U.S.C. 1481</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB7D0DB8728D1492B82C6B5A8A5044E86"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subsection (a)(3) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC51E3D90D3904581ABDD46B6A39693A">
<paragraph id="HF0FF0F1B76094F6AA15124D27C004CBC"><enum>(3)</enum>
<subparagraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0074D1C666914199B573000384FDA2F0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state if—</text>
<clause indent="up1" id="H55559D23D2EE4207ACDEF96C72001F4E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such armed forces are engaged in hostilities against the United States; or</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H3D800E4766194D3CA53B1C05D256EE00"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>such person serves as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer; or</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="H08A066DFE9904AB19DCDE3CFFCB0039"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of a naturalized American citizen, joining or serving in, or providing material support (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2339A">section 2339A</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code) to a terrorist organization designated under section 212(a)(3) or 219 or designated under the International Emergency Powers Act, if the organization is engaged in hostilities against the United States, its people, or its national security interests.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBE80C47594BF4F03A7E98C101CBEEA28"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end of subsection (b): <quote>The voluntary commission or performance of an act described in subsection (a)(3)(A)(i) or (B) shall be prima facie evidence that the act was done with the intention of relinquishing United States nationality.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC87A425181194C16B12F7C424656CEBA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to determinations pending on or after such date with respect to which a final administrative decision has not been rendered as of such date.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H98530EC4E124429CB760FF6B18C63A"><enum>B</enum><header>Removing alien criminals</header>
<section id="H2EC486E2E74441CBAC76401B24C82C13"><enum>411.</enum><header>Definition of criminal conviction</header>
<subsection id="H9610CF143ABB45D2832D752550E7AAF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subparagraph (B) of section 101(a)(48) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(48)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Any conviction entered by a court shall remain valid for immigration purposes notwithstanding a vacation of that conviction, unless the conviction is vacated on direct appeal wherein the court determines that vacation is warranted on the merits, or on grounds relating to a violation of a fundamental statutory or constitutional right in the underlying criminal proceedings.</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H3D11A66573194022AE00C0DF9BE0AFAF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to determinations pending on or after such date with respect to which a final administrative decision has not been rendered as of such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H16065F1EC7DC4AA0862D1DD722C9A5A4"><enum>412.</enum><header>Removing murderers, rapists, sexual abusers of children, and drunk drivers</header>
<subsection id="HC460E96334974F62BAECB09BD03DD36"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Removing murderers, rapists, and sexual abusers of children</header><text>Subparagraph (A) of section 101(a)(43) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end the following: <quote>, regardless of the term of imprisonment, and regardless of whether the offenses are deemed to be misdemeanors or felonies under State or Federal law,</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7D0C8CAAB62A4F1A903548ADAAA2A1A1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Removing drunk drivers</header><text>Section 101(a)(43)(F) is amended by inserting <quote>, including a third drunk driving conviction, regardless of the States in which the convictions occurred, and regardless of whether the offenses are deemed to be misdemeanors or felonies under State or Federal law,</quote> after <quote>offense)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0AF1E4F94CA3444FAC8E72815D4670FD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by the section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to convictions entered on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HA89D4EEC3D9E4448901C59B2AE5737EC"><enum>413.</enum><header>Detention and release of criminal aliens pending removal decision</header>
<subsection id="H5B5A77E4A28A428F97C2B690DFB25DD9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Arrest and detention</header>
<paragraph id="H659A1FD3AAFC47F7AC460877A9758216"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 236(c)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC9A5C586AD5C4F7B96557F679DA2FE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking the matter preceding subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HF426B64F05374AD6BD68A1F282D25299">
<paragraph id="HA2989A988563487E9363EAEB39F025ED"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Arrest and detention</header><text>On a warrant issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security, an alien shall be arrested and detained pending a decision on whether the alien is to be removed from the United States if the Secretary alleges that the alien—</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE16B39CC59E047E18FDFCD3C8DBE001B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking the comma at the end and inserting a period; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H15E83D6F1EB14518B05E02FB5FCE4BFE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking the matter following subparagraph (D) and adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H95E18511FD6E4C41ACFD859170D2579E"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as requiring the Secretary to arrest or detain an alien who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment until the alien is released from imprisonment, but parole, supervised release, probation, or possibility of arrest or further imprisonment is not a reason for the Secretary to defer arrest and detention under this paragraph.</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0C5350F57FBA4E8982510003D861BD3D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall apply to aliens who are in proceedings under the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> on or after the date of the enactment of this Act if those proceedings have not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4A2A246C9C834553878F26AC2E000010"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Release</header>
<paragraph id="H753171F9835844109CD7005C748C6DCD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 236(c)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0077168AAD1640E4BF024B25D154A2F7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting after the first sentence the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD811754B67E34CCFB74BDA007F8EFFE8"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To satisfy this burden, the alien is required to present documentary evidence or witness testimony from a third party, where such evidence is reasonably available. No finder of fact may determine that such evidence is not reasonably available solely because the alien is detained.</text><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE76547B1B48546F8878D3506E9321F7D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H87553841B09B43339771FA79F8BD3EE5"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security may release an alien under this paragraph only on bond of at least $5,000 with security approved by, and containing conditions prescribed by, the Secretary.</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4E353EBE283446FF82536744C334299E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Condition on release</header><text>Section 236(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HFE79334E84004C6691EFFA48835E2CA9"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In order to be released, the alien has the burden of proving that the alien is neither a danger to the community nor a flight risk. To satisfy this burden, the alien is required to present documentary evidence or witness testimony from a third party, where such evidence is reasonably available. No finder of fact may determine that such evidence is not reasonably available solely because the alien is detained.</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HBE9E0850923B456AB8C3225BD0393CD6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to releases occurring on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="HE5C09AEAAD904CEB005FD8D4B126DBE4"><enum>C</enum><header>Removing alien human rights violators</header>
<section id="H07F014B37288471AA0656ED63D08FA2E"><enum>421.</enum><header>Serious human rights violator defined</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H3CD2DDF0AA4D4CDC9546E80600FDC177">
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H10AF4368DD254FFF988600C612367C46"><enum>(51)</enum>
<subparagraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0F8B1E538F014CE2BE386DBF4012E7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The term <term>serious human rights violator</term> means any alien who—</text>
<clause indent="up1" id="HEAB27C7C34EE4AA4A9DC67D2B9C5D4AC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion;</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H455213CBB611458BA4E874335484C9A5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>while serving as a foreign government official, was responsible for, or directly carried out, particularly severe violations of religious freedom (as defined in section 3 of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/22/6402">22 U.S.C. 6402</external-xref>));</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="HC9715A40442C411D85707B4334357242"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>during an armed conflict, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in a war crime (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2441">section 2441(c)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code);</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="HFCD5E01A2DCD493EA5FFDE5B3CD75CBA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>ordered, incited, assisted, otherwise participated in, attempted to commit, or conspired to commit conduct that would constitute genocide (as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1091">section 1091(a)</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code), if the conduct were committed in the United States or by a United States national;</text></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H47532F31FE244037A589556E2C7EFC85"><enum>(v)</enum><text>ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the commission of—</text>
<subclause id="H0ECC1A8DB1A242468DA2002B3C6700CE"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any act of torture, as defined in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/2340">section 2340</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HE25056C6B2AC493785EF4045388F37A3"><enum>(II)</enum><text>under color of law of any foreign nation, any extrajudicial killing, as defined in section 3(a) of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/1350">28 U.S.C. 1350</external-xref> note); or</text></subclause></clause>
<clause indent="up1" id="H938037C796004BCCBB9B9F1B0664B8A5"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>committed, ordered, incited, assisted, otherwise participated in, or was responsible for any of the following acts, when undertaken in whole or in significant part for a political, religious, or discriminatory purpose:</text>
<subclause id="HB2DD3CE7D4B84A36A4F7222CBD66E5AF"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Murder or other homicide.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H6E750D30F0644121AAC035FDF9006E3E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Kidnapping.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8703E4A933B94FF88DD8A608CA6702A5"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Disappearance.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H918C0A4AC77E4073AEC800BA41E898EB"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>Rape.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HA06A90BFA7134D02A4F3AB403B08CD88"><enum>(V)</enum><text>Torture or mutilation.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H1279F3ACE9944CEC849DD0C40002006E"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>Prolonged, arbitrary detention.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HE99F3166ABD444E090FDD9CEB0D59DB"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>Enslavement.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H8DEC78B7B3204455AD14BFFAE0F590D6"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text>Forced prostitution, impregnation, sterilization, or abortion.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HA1EC4B19E56747A88B779B22E9D4043C"><enum>(IX)</enum><text>Genocide.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HC781D1D01DF04D318EF000E5B75C6B7"><enum>(X)</enum><text>Extermination.</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H4FAA0A1F53D44EE2B390C7C9C284EDBD"><enum>(XI)</enum><text>Recruitment of persons under the age of 15 for use in armed conflict.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="H8FAE33FAA3464875AF66D9D775764D68"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to an alien who demonstrates by clear and convincing evidence that the conduct was committed under extreme duress. For purposes of the preceding sentence, <quote>extreme duress</quote> means duress created by a threat of imminent death or rape of the alien, or a spouse, child, or parent of the alien.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HF2EB32B51C2A44E3A043CD4F005CAA60"><enum>422.</enum><header>Deportability of serious human rights violators</header>
<subsection id="HD1527C5FED7D4BC78E565B754E915623"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 237(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC43EEFC089A04F3EA15F3C87514C1F7B">
<paragraph id="HDBEC93CA91DD44BDA9A376F0498E5F24"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Serious human rights violators</header><text>Any serious human rights violator is deportable.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCE276C32D8FD4CE6824E98CCAA962830"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 237(a)(4)(D) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)(D)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H904EDFA14D214C76B46FD894D8C5434">
<subparagraph id="HE215ED0449A14E3C8F568D2317D9717B"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Assisted in Nazi persecution</header><text>Any alien described in section 212(a)(3)(E) is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H6681724026B6458E8E16EFCCF7500F2"><enum>423.</enum><header>Arrest and detention of serious human rights violators pending removal and criminal prosecution decisions</header>
<subsection id="H741D472B862144FB96489DF4B7AE32B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Custody</header><text>Section 236(c)(1)(D) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(c)(1)(D)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>section 237(a)(4)(B),</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (4)(B) or (8) of section 237(a)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HFD0ED22F93A24B4F9D6485CD983B2D6E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notice to criminal division</header><text>Section 236(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1226">8 U.S.C. 1226(c)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H2B81220817AB4D11B89B20C67B79A74E">
<paragraph id="HF75BD8165BB64AF0A119529170ADE2EF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notice to criminal division</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7109C7B254604C908079D100EBC2EAE6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is notified when an alien is arrested and detained under paragraph (1) by reason of inadmissibility under section 212(a)(2)(G) or deportability under section 237(a)(8);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H944FE47569A047C9BA3FAA75354F7664"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is provided the information that was the basis for the application of such paragraph; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF4E4768C86AA4F24BFE514A67FE964AB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>makes a determination whether the alien should be arrested and prosecuted in the United States for a criminal offense.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA317A0546FD145E18D9CC330CD6617D5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Beginning 6 months after the date of the enactment of the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005, and every 12 months thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General shall submit to the Committees on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives and of the Senate a report containing the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="H5D41064458E14B2C8DF13569208CF290"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The number of removal proceedings initiated against aliens under sections 212(a)(2)(G) and 237(a)(8) during the reporting period.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA92370DEB014423BB7528F73509C0719"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The number of removal proceedings under sections 212(a)(2)(G) and 237(a)(8) pending at the conclusion of the reporting period.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6EC5FD3DCC7F40C9003866A8AF2357DC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The number of aliens removed under sections 212(a)(2)(G) and 237(a)(8) during the reporting period.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD884263B6A064157BE6742669DEFAA55"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The number of notifications under paragraph (3)(A) made during the reporting period.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE6EA8F6D8F314BFFBED0CF0008555E00"><enum>(E)</enum><text>The number of criminal prosecutions initiated during the reporting period based on information provided under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HA4B808DDD22D4B03827F8CB5DC828BD"><enum>(F)</enum><text>The number of criminal prosecutions pending at the conclusion of the reporting period that were initiated based on information provided under paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7D427776DEC6489FB44307F81CEB273E"><enum>(G)</enum><text>The number of criminal prosecutions initiated based on information provided under paragraph (3) that resulted in a conviction during the reporting period.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H34FA3310E4D742B6AB3123829EF3CA88"><enum>424.</enum><header>Exception to restriction on removal for serious human rights violators and terrorists</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 241(b)(3)(B) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1231">8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H870D8AF8AF1B43A882579898665E886C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking <quote>section 237(a)(4)(D)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (B), (D), or (E) of section 237(a)(4)</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H07DA2F183B6F43A3A873522F4B179573"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending clause (i) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H89466483949543C0A400E4E89D6A512">
<clause id="H042CAA7AA9B1490E8883EEB48EF38773"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien is a serious human rights violator;</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H5488DB7DA70341BF8100343B1915858F"><enum>425.</enum><header>Initiation of removal proceedings against serious human rights violators by complaint</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 239 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229">8 U.S.C. 1229</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H727A3940DB1C4C33BA99188C1425BB6E">
<subsection id="H5C5BFA22D55644CDB600F009C92D67CA"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Complaints respecting serious human rights violators</header>
<paragraph id="H4F04AC27261640F8912B7E2893106BE8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Establishment of process</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a process for the receipt, investigation, and disposition of complaints alleging that an alien present in the United States is a serious human rights violator and identifying that alien.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD72725FED80344B48000B5473CC500A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Persons entitled to file complaints</header><text>Any individual may file a complaint under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H06452AF5F1F5470183000900573DC442"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Form and content of complaint</header><text>A complaint under paragraph (1) shall be in the form of a written statement, executed under oath or as permitted under penalty of perjury under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/1746">section 1746</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, and shall contain such information as the Secretary of Homeland Security may require. Complaints shall be filed with an office designated for that purpose by the Secretary.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3473C41A1E384ECFBFCFF444F91E04F9"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Notice served on subject of complaint</header><text>The Secretary shall serve notice, by certified mail and within 14 days of the filing of a complaint under paragraph (1), on each alien identified in the complaint as a serious human rights violator. The alien shall answer the complaint within 10 days of receiving it.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H417386FD92C24AEEB849BE385BB36118"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Investigation and action</header><text>The Secretary shall conduct an investigation of each complaint that satisfies the requirements of this subsection. Not later than 180 days after the date of filing of such a complaint, the Secretary, with respect to each alien identified in the complaint as a serious human rights violator—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBAB1DC49306A43EA8E4814A31FA8F124"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall initiate removal proceedings against the alien; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFD03AF46C6974908BE43304F7CE6906C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall issue to the complainant a written determination that, in the opinion of the Secretary, the alien is not a serious human rights violator.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H043BBAD2698348DF84AB6FCBF55B5F91"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the discretion of consular officers under section 291 to determine eligibility for a visa or document required for entry or to limit the discretion of any immigration officer otherwise to initiate removal proceedings under this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H2698D749A2F44ACAB7DF6368BAF3541D"><enum>426.</enum><header>Bars to refugee status and asylum for serious human rights violators</header>
<subsection id="H83F4C407594A46ABB2AF6206EEDF0008"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Refugee defined</header><text>Section 101(a)(42) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(42)</external-xref>) is amended by striking the second sentence and inserting <quote>The term <term>refugee</term> does not include any person who is a serious human rights violator as defined in section 101(a)(51)(A).</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0D36CD58A3CF44558144E7B87BE22C82"><enum>(b)</enum><header>No waiver of ground of inadmissibility for refuge seekers</header><text>Section 207(c)(3) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1157">8 U.S.C. 1157(c)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>or (2)(G)</quote> after <quote>(2)(C)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD1B8637FFF114DBDBB037B3138054BD7"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exceptions to granting asylum</header><text>Section 208(b)(2)(A)(i) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(2)(A)(i)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H928C7E8F66EB456383008442872E1500">
<subsection indent="down3" id="H64A318B7DC4F4357A19CCEEE1D5592"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien is a serious human rights violator;</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H7D06DE9F3AD2485DA361B7B9286230D5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Extension to spouses and children of exceptions to granting asylum</header><text>Section 208(b)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>such alien.</quote> and inserting <quote>such alien, unless the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that one of the exceptions in clauses (i) through (v) of paragraph (2)(A) applies to the spouse or child.</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HB9735B96F22D44698778B488C66DA17B"><enum>427.</enum><header>Bar to adjustment of status for serious human rights violators</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 209(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1159">8 U.S.C. 1159(c)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>or (2)(G)</quote> after <quote>(2)(C)</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HF43AC0EF42974D450007FAC8E8213F08"><enum>428.</enum><header>Bar to finding of good moral character for serious human rights violators</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(f) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(f)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC5F3574F5CFA4FF28DDFFC6E77D84D57">
<paragraph id="HC6A0C70ABBEF4B8088A599F9CDA15025"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a serious human rights violator;</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H084985CEB3A940AF8E50DE132FA40062"><enum>429.</enum><header>Bar to cancellation of removal for serious human rights violators</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 240A(c)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7FD333B57CE34245A4A623A3E4D62580"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 212(a)(3)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (2)(G) or (3) of section 212(a)</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4CA6948CD52F42EC8B00457CD09DB0A8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 237(a)(4).</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (4) or (8) of section 237(a).</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="HE2280D6447DD459AA90375152DCC32FF"><enum>430.</enum><header>Bar to adjustment of status with respect to certain special immigrants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 245(h)(2)(B) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(h)(2)(B)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>(2)(G),</quote> before <quote>(3)(A)</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H594E9A24D61049EC833FAD42B7F02DA1"><enum>431.</enum><header>Criminal penalties for reentry of removed serious human rights violators</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 276(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1326">8 U.S.C. 1326(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H0B1A90F24C6E44168410C4F9DF84577"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>sentence. or</quote> and inserting <quote>sentence;</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H718EA5C5C21D46FBBDFEF242B3518E13"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H82561024291641F6ACE1741837BE7C38"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H8BDCCBBF9A364BDFA7D97CA865A921E6">
<paragraph id="HB30260F510B24C5ABAFF9398B9FB4C00"><enum>(5)</enum><text>who was removed from the United States pursuant to section 212(a)(2)(G) or 237(a)(8), and who thereafter, without the permission of the Secretary of Homeland Security, enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in, the United States shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H684C6010DC3345499609FF41E1F1D820"><enum>432.</enum><header>Aiding or assisting serious human rights violators to enter the United States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 277 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1327">8 U.S.C. 1327</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>felony)</quote> and inserting <quote>felony or is a serious human rights violator)</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="HDC6D326FEEC14D43BF24E65CA3DC9043"><enum>433.</enum><header>Revision of regulations with respect to the involuntary return of persons in danger of subjection to torture</header>
<subsection id="H4BE031BF3DAA4DBC9900FE6B873052B5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="H2582696EB1B04953BCB2BD4313E2028E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Revision deadline</header><text>Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall revise the regulations prescribed by the Secretary to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, done at New York on December 10, 1984.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4420B54F44F44BA3A82250FF7C3450E0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusion of certain aliens</header><text>The revision shall exclude from the protection of such regulations aliens described in section 241(b)(3)(B) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1231">8 U.S.C. 1231(b)(3)(B)</external-xref>) (as amended by section 424 of this Act), including rendering such aliens ineligible for withholding or deferral of removal under the Convention.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H08DE5FD179CA4541AA2D9ED5762EA98B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Burden of proof</header><text>The revision shall also ensure that the burden of proof is on the applicant for withholding or deferral of removal under the Convention to establish by clear and convincing evidence that he or she would be tortured if removed to the proposed country of removal.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4A46470A7F854F00B0F97F85C04D626F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no court shall have jurisdiction to review the regulations adopted to implement this section, and nothing in this section shall be construed as providing any court jurisdiction to consider or review claims raised under the Convention or this section, except as part of the review of a final order of removal pursuant to section 242 of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1252">8 U.S.C. 1252</external-xref>).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H820E6EA8596E48CF9D8C01FA0198DB1D"><enum>434.</enum><header>Funding for detention and removal assistance provided by State and local law enforcement agencies</header>
<subsection id="H6E59626A31EB4B1584342E56584D86A7"><enum>(a)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall reimburse verifiable claims submitted by a law enforcement agency of a State, or any political subdivision of a State, that were lawfully incurred for the emergency medical care, housing, and care in a secure facility, and the transportation into Federal custody at a location designated by the Secretary, of any alien detained as inadmissible under section 212(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)</external-xref>) or deportable under section 237(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)</external-xref>), if—</text>
<paragraph id="H50BDD1BFB4CC4E058FA5009652885522"><enum>(1)</enum><text>transfer to Federal custody has occurred;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9A5551CEB2DB42E589A786D92133B9E5"><enum>(2)</enum>
<subparagraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HB68A43FDAA724277805CB108B6585C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a determination is subsequently made under section 240(c)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229a">8 U.S.C. 1229a(c)(1)</external-xref>) that such alien is removable; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="H073850F82C47406788262355EC4FAA73"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a determination is made that the alien has permanently departed the United States; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H29F69DB9BDAB419DB28CB1B24912B418"><enum>(3)</enum><text>reimbursement for all costs excepting transportation costs is made according to per diem rates established by the Secretary.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HEC1062252AE9400C9D86F03B780722D0"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Per diem rates described in subparagraph (a)(3) shall be determined after public notice and comment.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0894792CC0724CEBAA17A2E072A9EDBE"><enum>(c)</enum><text>In addition to funds otherwise available for such purpose, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security such sums as may be necessary to carry out subsection (a).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H092A184FAE3546D69260B900CA269100"><enum>435.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle, and the amendments made by this subtitle, shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to violations occurring before (except for section 434 of this Act), on, or after such date.</text></section></subtitle>
<enum>V</enum><header>Enhancing enforcement of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> in the interior</header>
<subtitle id="HC5A9411F726F4DDEB8692FDE44F70000"><enum>A</enum><header>Document security</header>
<section id="H8D60EF973BED4AF79F078C3B8C43123F"><enum>501.</enum><header>Secure travel documents</header>
<subsection id="H3702EEE058DE4EF8A3A5A5A42D2EC7AD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 215 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1185">8 U.S.C. 1185</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5890B57EB301438CA906E54265575C39"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H19C752BCA7D740DB89755820005626AF">
<subsection id="HEA344A126B3E4B30BA9D20D800FED45D"><enum>(g)</enum>
<paragraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H495063F24D074400A65200EEC7EC5B32"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The use by any person of any travel or identification document designated as insecure by the Secretary of Homeland Security (hereafter <quote>the Secretary</quote>) for entry into or departure from the United States at any land, sea or air port of entry, is prohibited.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H7A18DA581FB94E1B8E6B02C08B62F1FB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The use by any alien of any travel or identification document designated as insecure by the Secretary to identify such aliens for purposes of transportation of persons by public or private conveyance in interstate commerce is prohibited.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="HC1674A76F63D4C32B0B100860201E917"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Secretary may waive the prohibition in paragraph (1) for citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States whose identity has been verified by a designation or endorsement of such status on the identification document by a state or federal government agency.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9C50980185D44F44911D7EA40090D990"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c), by adding at the end the following: <quote>The term <term>insecure travel or identification document</term> as used in this section means a drivers license or identification card issued by a state or any political subdivision thereof, or by a consular representative or agent of a foreign government in the United States, which appears on a list established and maintained by the Secretary of documents which the Secretary has determined may be issued to an alien who, on the date of issuance of such document, is unlawfully present in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Secretary or is present in the United States without being admitted or paroled.</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HFA0F8A011DCF49BABB0311F83C61B659"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective dates</header>
<paragraph id="HD2DCAD21D8634668A22CD724662F4F20"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary shall issue the list of insecure documents described in section 215(c) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>, as amended by subsection (a), not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. Such list shall be updated semiannually thereafter, or upon application by any State or foreign government that has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary that a travel or identification document issued by such government is no longer insecure.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA8A18564FD0948D9BDCF94B9B16D1501"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 215(g)(1) of such Act, as so amended, shall take effect 60 days after issuance of such list of insecure documents by the Secretary.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE86E48E0E56C494BB8B683967045E4F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 215(g)(2) of such Act, as so amended, shall take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H9C9D35D06782433CBCCDFFA688D38F98"><enum>502.</enum><header>Social security cards</header>
<subsection id="H49EA8C42C5F34607AFFA85655E611926"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Improvements to card</header>
<paragraph id="H3150EEA6521445E781731B90D4B920A7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>For purposes of carrying out section 274A of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>, the Commissioner of Social Security (in this section referred to as the <quote>Commissioner</quote>) shall make such improvements to the physical design, technical specifications, and materials of the social security account number card as are necessary to ensure that it is a genuine official document and that it offers the best possible security against counterfeiting, forgery, alteration, and misuse.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2F2F2CF7DD29494B91E518D4C42006EC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Performance standards</header><text>In making the improvements required in paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0CB7D224E2384BC2AA47AE93C2D159F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>make the card as secure against counterfeiting as the 100 dollar Federal Reserve note, with a rate of counterfeit detection comparable to the 100 dollar Federal Reserve note; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8FE37013C6BB4576B5104497005DE740"><enum>(B)</enum><text>make the card as secure against fraudulent use as a United States passport.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24895E0BAE334C79BE563CCBBDE955FE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>In this section, the term <term>secured social security account number card</term> means a social security account number card issued in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB3CF2D318E2F4ABC9D76103040E59D5E"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>All social security account number cards issued after January 1, 2008, whether new or replacement, shall be secured social security account number cards.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H856D04821937429B86A54EC1CC0000BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Not a national identification card</header><text>Cards issued pursuant to this section shall not be required to be carried upon one’s person, and nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing the establishment of a national identification card.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0A48D61D858A424A9612568D13542B3D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Education campaign</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security, shall conduct a comprehensive campaign to educate employers about the security features of the secured social security card and how to detect counterfeit or fraudulently used social security account number cards.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H183F84597659423AA25FA3116746CEC3"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Annual reports</header><text>The Commissioner of Social Security shall submit to Congress by July 1 of each year a report on—</text>
<paragraph id="HA4166E2C282740B2004B71F3B8069D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the progress and status of developing a secured social security account number card under this section;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H01098DBD653F4C2289C88B94E916B00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the incidence of counterfeit production and fraudulent use of social security account number cards; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1D5327664889478AB5089CBC7D8DA2F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the steps being taken to detect and prevent such counterfeiting and fraud.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC787503E61474F1A9F854C10C5F5D600"><enum>(e)</enum><header>GAO annual audits</header><text>The Comptroller General of the United States shall perform an annual audit, the results of which are to be presented to the Congress by January 1 of each of the 5 years following the date of the enactment of the Securing America’s Future through Enforcement Reform Act of 2005, on the performance of the Social Security Administration in meeting the requirements in paragraph (1).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD1A7E3C25D2747B3BDBE6E64A164508F"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Expenses</header><text>No costs incurred in developing and issuing cards under this section that are above the costs that would have been incurred for cards issued in the absence of this section shall be paid for out of any trust fund established under the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name>. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H27F1D3984CBF497392D9B0A55930B884"><enum>503.</enum><header>Consular identification documents</header>
<subsection id="HB2414DDC4B804212B92BFEE465D7911"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Acceptance of foreign identification documents</header>
<paragraph id="H7C0BB13B635E4CDB978E39E6D2CDDEFA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No agency, commission, entity, or agent of the executive or legislative branches of the federal government may accept, acknowledge, recognize, or rely on for purposes of personal identification any identification document issued by a foreign government, unless otherwise mandated by Federal law.</text>
<subparagraph id="HDFA14BC6F19946D4AF4D6DEB850190FC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For purposes of this section, an agent shall include:</text>
<clause id="HA9113A07983D4C79B975A0189657549"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a Federal contractor or grantee;</text></clause>
<clause id="H14251DEE4BC643C485F1EECFA49D98E7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a financial institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System, described in <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/12/321">12 U.S.C. 321</external-xref>; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H8D16EE2AC0484E8988E7A9FBE1FB03CB"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>an institution exempted from Federal income taxation described in 26 U.S.C. 501.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2B1C00B559D44FBAB74B3D00308C4C00"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exceptions</header>
<subparagraph id="H9F423911AB914BC39C65755716855C23"><enum>(A)</enum><text>A person who is not a citizen of the United States may present for personal identification purposes an official identification document issued by a foreign government, or other foreign identification document recognized by treaty, if—</text>
<clause id="H7EF941EDCE30490392E627C88DCB41"><enum>(i)</enum><text>such noncitizen also simultaneously presents valid verifiable documentation of lawful presence in the United States issued by an agency of the Federal Government;</text></clause>
<clause id="H9D5EE2A2EA6D42C89B7346D7FA50C4CF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>reporting a violation of law; or</text></clause>
<clause id="H8A7FFC1E55A74C4F8DC72227CE809BA8"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>such use is expressly permitted by Federal law.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7304FBE8B3EA4AC0BFACF28CB14D08C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply to inspections of alien applicants for admission to the United States, nor to verification of personal identification outside the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB72955F4CE994ABA8303B2BAF4E9EDAC"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Listing of acceptable documents</header><text>The United States Department of Homeland Security shall issue, maintain in printed and electronic media, and disseminate to the public at no cost an updated listing, compiled in consultation with the United States Department of State, and including sample facsimiles, of all acceptable federal documents that satisfy the requirements of paragraph (2)(A). Such listing may, at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, include a similar listing of documents establishing employment authorization or identity under section 274A(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324a">8 U.S.C. 1324a(b)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HB52C37932A044E09B511083E06B5324B"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Section 274C of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324c">8 U.S.C. 1324c</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H6F2EB19E80B14A928FEF953F7B76500"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H51699AB798034BCEACD1D96B0083A782"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0B15BFD3457C4DDBAC2852E0A43C71A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H79BC2A132F974562AA95FAE97DEB1F02">
<paragraph id="H5527F8FD30F846D8B9FBCECA50C0D323"><enum>(6)</enum><text>to use to establish personal identity, before any agent of the Federal Government, or before any agency of the Federal Government or of a State or any political subdivision therein, a travel or identification document issued by a foreign government that is not accepted by the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish personal identity for purposes of admission to the United States at a port of entry, except where a person who is not a citizen of the United States (A) simultaneously presents valid verifiable documentation of lawful presence in the United States issued by an agency of the Federal Government, or (B) is reporting a violation of law, or (C) such use is expressly permitted by Federal law.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA63754ED009440260037D200723311AA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1060CF1AD20E4EF1BD94F7B9809C7B0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (2) though (7) as paragraphs (3) through (8), respectively; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCF78F56E9D614173008BB7F9672825E1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H6A4105F7A14D4D0BA2D7368DEFF4B4E0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Every complete complaint of a violation described in subsection (a) that has been filed by an entity described in subsection (b), or by a private party aggrieved by such violation, shall be promptly investigated. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall issue a cease and desist order with money penalty in each case determined after investigation to constitute a violation under subsection (a).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H1802B26867A04794B0B334F94DDD47BC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualified immunity</header><text>Actions taken in violation of subsections (a) of this section, or section 274C of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324c">8 U.S.C. 1324c</external-xref>), as amended by subsection (b), shall be deemed outside the official capacity of the elected official or officer, employee, or agent of a Federal agency so acting.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="HBADCCDE705BB4498ADDE5860BD3767E5"><enum>B</enum><header>Employment eligibility verification</header>
<section id="H373227AC0FB349B100DC9127E6ABFF53"><enum>511.</enum><header>Employment eligibility verification process and elimination of examination of documentation requirement</header>
<subsection id="HA261608D6294428FBB82A17DF8B62E62"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 274A (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324a">8 U.S.C. 1324a</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5E11D579EA6646EFAF4D854C81A0E0EB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1)(A), by striking <quote>for a fee</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEAD6F0E85DCB4B07B4D252355FB7434"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC32B39BD61F44323B9D5A647CE82E700"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>Defense.—</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8C74FD3D6B42432DA51014D4AE64A92F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph indent="up1" id="HC59970C47CDE4C39A255488104EE4F18"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Failure to seek and obtain verification</header><text>In the case of a hiring of an individual for employment in the United States by a person or entity, the following requirements apply:</text>
<clause id="HC5381578B4264CCD94EEA9B79D518801"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Failure to seek verification</header>
<subclause id="H2BC06895C0DD4E41B7386971E537E4B1"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the person or entity has not made an inquiry, under the mechanism established under subsection (b)(4), seeking verification of the identity, social security number, and work eligibility of the individual, by not later than the end of 3 working days (as specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security) after the date of the hiring, the defense under subparagraph (A) shall not be considered to apply with respect to any employment after such 3 working days, except as provided in subclause (II).</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD48032911BD44D39A5D5FDBA75B54812"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Special rule for failure of verification mechanism</header><text>If such a person or entity in good faith attempts to make an inquiry during such 3 working days in order to qualify for the defense under subparagraph (A) and the verification mechanism has registered that not all inquiries were responded to during such time, the person or entity can make an inquiry until the end of the first subsequent working day in which the verification mechanism registers no nonresponses and qualify for such defense.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HCE85FF9F4BD74693BCED894CCD3BCC29"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Failure to obtain verification</header><text>If the person or entity has made the inquiry described in clause (i)(I) but has not received an appropriate verification of such identity, number, and work eligibility under such mechanism within the time period specified under subsection (b)(4)(B) after the time the verification inquiry was received, the defense under subparagraph (A) shall not be considered to apply with respect to any employment after the end of such time period.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H33A1B0A6D61044749803F526EDBF2514"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8CC814D8A64E4BA2AC51A0F24F25642D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by amending the paragraph heading to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HAAB78E12184A407DAAD9403430E72D98"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Attestation</header></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBEC28067BE7F41F59B8C4253AD4CBCCB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (A) to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HE3922DC406A848BCBDD45EAE1858D0BE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The person or entity must attest, under penalty of perjury and on a form designated or established by the Secretary of Homeland Security by regulation, that it has verified that the individual is not an unauthorized alien by obtaining from the individual the individual’s social security account number and recording the number on the form (if the individual claims to have been issued such a number), and, if the individual does not attest to United States citizenship under paragraph (2), obtaining such identification or authorization number established by the Department of Homeland Security for the alien as the Secretary may specify, and recording such number on the form.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H27FDAE1E11D54D3D94EB1F5152827C7D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2), by adding at the end the following: <quote>The individual must also provide that individual’s social security account number (if the individual claims to have been issued such a number), and, if the individual does not attest to United States citizenship under this paragraph, such identification or authorization number established by the Department of Homeland Security for the alien as the Secretary of Homeland Security may specify.</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H217F3E9865B5468D97DA8E1C8272D3CB"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by amending subsection (b)(3) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H2DB178B59DCF419D829FCA3E12070669"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Retention of verification form and verification</header>
<subparagraph id="HDA1128B08B4F471DA3029716F0F1E958"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>After completion of such form in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2), the person or entity must—</text>
<clause id="HC474E3B2F38048DCA159C396909BDC60"><enum>(i)</enum><text>retain the form and make it available for inspection by officers of the Department of Homeland Security, the Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, or the Department of Labor during a period beginning on the date of the hiring, recruiting, or referral of the individual and ending—</text>
<subclause id="H35C8589C756D4B41A783D0F978A80000"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in the case of the recruiting or referral for a fee (without hiring) of an individual, three years after the date of the recruiting or referral; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H491D5D831CE642779DED4EA1EA67BBD"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in the case of the hiring of an individual, the later of—</text>
<item id="HF2B9B3AC5B254D3382301943E2563100"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>three years after the date of such hiring; or</text></item>
<item id="H60ADD12F89B146A48BC83F3100C68111"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>one year after the date the individual’s employment is terminated; and</text></item></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H578431CDEAB744C39FC3431F862174E5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>make an inquiry, as provided in paragraph (4), using the verification system to seek verification of the identity and employment eligibility of an individual, by not later than the end of 3 working days (as specified by the Secretary of Homeland Security) after the date of the hiring (or recruitment or referral, as the case may be).</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H05789921F1EC47AE00EA632EDE957BA0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Verification</header>
<clause id="H1DCE4D5484CB4480BC3736C8A966BDC1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Verification received</header><text>If the person or other entity receives an appropriate verification of an individual’s identity and work eligibility under the verification system within the time period specified, the person or entity shall record on the form an appropriate code that is provided under the system and that indicates a final verification of such identity and work eligibility of the individual.</text></clause>
<clause id="H0171899093F4417BB3571F5D51B853AC"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Tentative nonverification received</header><text>If the person or other entity receives a tentative nonverification of an individual’s identity or work eligibility under the verification system within the time period specified, the person or entity shall so inform the individual for whom the verification is sought. If the individual does not contest the nonverification within the time period specified, the nonverification shall be considered final. The person or entity shall then record on the form an appropriate code which has been provided under the system to indicate a tentative nonverification. If the individual does contest the nonverification, the individual shall utilize the process for secondary verification provided under paragraph (4). The nonverification will remain tentative until a final verification or nonverification is provided by the verification system within the time period specified. In no case shall an employer terminate employment of an individual because of a failure of the individual to have identity and work eligibility confirmed under this section until a nonverification becomes final. Nothing in this clause shall apply to a termination of employment for any reason other than because of such a failure.</text></clause>
<clause id="H82DEC890A7BD4FE8B1FCB83004D8910"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Final verification or nonverification received</header><text>If a final verification or nonverification is provided by the verification system regarding an individual, the person or entity shall record on the form an appropriate code that is provided under the system and that indicates a verification or nonverification of identity and work eligibility of the individual.</text></clause>
<clause id="HBE7765B76E8441429C68C62500CB07B3"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Extension of time</header><text>If the person or other entity in good faith attempts to make an inquiry during such 3 working days and the verification system has registered that not all inquiries were received during such time, the person or entity may make an inquiry in the first subsequent working day in which the verification system registers that it has received all inquiries. If the verification system cannot receive inquiries at all times during a day, the person or entity merely has to assert that the entity attempted to make the inquiry on that day for the previous sentence to apply to such an inquiry, and does not have to provide any additional proof concerning such inquiry.</text></clause>
<clause id="HC0436E341CF141D5B7F961EB16EC812"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Consequences of nonverification</header><text>If the person or other entity has received a final nonverification regarding an individual, the person or entity shall terminate employment (or recruitment or referral) of the individual.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HC85977F7F44A4A78B56F24F809355C6B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. Retention of form requirements under section 274A(b)(3) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name>, as in effect before such effective date, shall remain in effect as if this section had not been enacted for forms completed before such effective date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HD4971A70387B4A87B4D32CCD05FB6734"><enum>512.</enum><header>Employment eligibility verification system</header>
<subsection id="H051D626B5C6E4877B0A572359EDC678C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 274A(b)(4) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324a">8 U.S.C. 1324a(b)(4)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H642DF24B2A5049BDAB1885533F20F18D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Employment eligibility verification system</header>
<subparagraph id="H63B4767503B84EC69B33C02B8D343915"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish a verification system through which the Secretary (or a designee of the Secretary, which may be a nongovernmental entity)—</text>
<clause id="HBF85DC82545148278C002998002FC622"><enum>(i)</enum><text>responds to inquiries made by persons at any time through a toll-free telephone line or other toll-free electronic media concerning an individual’s identity and whether the individual is authorized to be employed; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HC816C320A6854CC0B6A74B001EE872F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>maintains records of the inquiries that were made, of verifications provided (or not provided), and of the codes provided to inquirers as evidence of their compliance with their obligations under this section.</text></clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">To the extent practicable, the Secretary shall seek to establish such a system using one or more nongovernmental entities.</continuation-text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0BCEBE4C5DF64C489768BE4F7BA03E88"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Initial response</header><text>The verification system shall provide verification or a tentative nonverification of an individual’s identity and employment eligibility within 3 working days of the initial inquiry. If providing verification or tentative nonverification, the verification system shall provide an appropriate code indicating such verification or such nonverification.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H94C062577C8A42F58B56D516009CA2D1"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Secondary verification process in case of tentative nonverification</header><text>In cases of tentative nonverification, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall specify, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Security, an available secondary verification process to confirm the validity of information provided and to provide a final verification or nonverification within 7 working days after the date of the tentative nonverification. When final verification or nonverification is provided, the verification system shall provide an appropriate code indicating such verification or nonverification.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF2B061DF1A6E41E493A8A0F4672FC008"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Design and operation of system</header><text>The verification system shall be designed and operated—</text>
<clause id="HA0862F39058840FEB31F2D5C7362D442"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to maximize its reliability and ease of use by persons and other entities consistent with insulating and protecting the privacy and security of the underlying information;</text></clause>
<clause id="H1039506C27F84DD18F8090024497B683"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to respond to all inquiries made by such persons and entities on whether individuals are authorized to be employed and to register all times when such inquiries are not received;</text></clause>
<clause id="HFD928F7CD6BB4C178EC9DA3953EF33C5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>with appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized disclosure of personal information; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H58149E3CB7B44B9289195B6DB65FEA5B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>to have reasonable safeguards against the system’s resulting in unlawful discriminatory practices based on national origin or citizenship status, including—</text>
<subclause id="HFB23AD90ABF342FBB1FDD4EFA21A984"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the selective or unauthorized use of the system to verify eligibility;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H49F706A4D9DD4E94B88EFEC9E6D1C579"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the use of the system prior to an offer of employment; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HD7FC45AC36CF44C39134FB8E001CA11"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the exclusion of certain individuals from consideration for employment as a result of a perceived likelihood that additional verification will be required, beyond what is required for most job applicants.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB101553E9A7D4A0BBFEA30B4DA553C36"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Responsibilities of the Commissioner of Social Security</header><text>As part of the verification system, the Commissioner of Social Security, in consultation with the entity responsible for administration of the system, shall establish a reliable, secure method, which, within the time periods specified under subparagraphs (B) and (C), verifies, for each individual whose identity and employment eligibility must be confirmed under this section, the individual’s name and social security account number, the correspondence of the name and number, and whether the social security number presented is valid for employment. The Commissioner shall not disclose or release social security information (other than such verification or nonverification). If, in carrying out this subparagraph, the Commissioner becomes aware of a suspicious pattern of use of a social security account number, the Commissioner shall investigate such suspicious pattern, or shall notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of it. Nothing in the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> or any other provision of law shall be construed to prevent the Commissioner from so notifying the Secretary. Upon receipt of such notification, the Secretary shall investigate in lieu of the Commissioner.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H77E2A6C2FDE04E7386AA9ECFC61E9BB"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Responsibilities of the Secretary of Homeland Security</header><text>As part of the verification system, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the entity responsible for administration of the system, shall establish a reliable, secure method, which, within the time periods specified under subparagraphs (B) and (C), compares the name and alien identification or authorization number which are provided in an inquiry against such information maintained by the Secretary in order to validate (or not validate) the information provided, the correspondence of the name and number, and whether the alien is authorized to be employed in the United States.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HAD344942F9B2413A993D4F6D00ED8246"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Updating information</header><text>The Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall update their information in a manner that promotes the maximum accuracy and shall provide a process for the prompt correction of erroneous information, including instances in which it is brought to their attention in the secondary verification process described in subparagraph (C).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF7987F25BA7F459A88842E001C726E59"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Limitation on use of the verification system and any related systems</header><text>Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize, directly or indirectly, the issuance or use of national identification cards or the establishment of a national identification card.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H7A4E2F0A175B4FA4831252EAAB3CBBF6"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Federal Tort Claims Act</header><text>If an individual alleges that the individual would not have been dismissed from a job but for an error of the verification mechanism, the individual may seek compensation only through the mechanism of the Federal Tort Claims Act, and injunctive relief to correct such error. No class action may be brought under this subparagraph.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4444047137974E26867632CCEA48D39"><enum>(J)</enum><header>Protection from liability for actions taken on the basis of information</header><text>No person or entity shall be civilly or criminally liable for any action taken in good faith reliance on information provided through the employment eligibility verification mechanism established under this paragraph.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HFCA4FC72AB67449CA50083BEF2E8828"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H722BF5827B06417CA72D9027AC5B253E"><enum>513.</enum><header>Notification by Commissioner of failure to correct social security information</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Commissioner of Social Security shall promptly notify the Secretary of Homeland Security of the failure of any individual to provide, upon any request of the Commissioner made pursuant to section 205(c)(2) of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social Security Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/405">42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)</external-xref>), evidence necessary, under such section—</text>
<paragraph id="H9F78D1F297834A17AA91A0DAAD76FE8B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to establish the age, citizenship, or alien status of the individual;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1DDF1E874A7C47899C8D44039E499052"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to establish such individual’s true identity; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H537AF4DAA4DE4B96B0CE30DEC399C948"><enum>(3)</enum><text>to determine which (if any) social security account number has previously been assigned to such individual.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H5436117B74934137993306291EA328F"><enum>514.</enum><header>Protection for individuals reporting immigration law violations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 274B(a)(5) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1324b">8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(5)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the rights protected by this paragraph include the right of any individual to report a violation or suspected violation of any immigration law to the Department of Homeland Security or a law enforcement agency.</quote>.</text></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H234FBA1D1B944B4CB368FDF4CCEF1C8C"><enum>C</enum><header>Miscellaneous</header>
<section id="H9ADA22ADDF554C80ABBDC9007E59E254"><enum>521.</enum><header>Expedited exclusion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 235(b)(1)(A) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1225">8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking clauses (i) through (iii) and inserting the following:</text>
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<clause id="H9D73B1A4507948A3A15821EE364EE7E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If an immigration officer determines that an alien (other than an alien described in subparagraph (F)) who is arriving in the United States, or who has not been admitted or paroled into the United States and has not been physically present in the United States continuously for the 5-year period immediately prior to the date of the determination of inadmissibility under this paragraph, is inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(C) or 212(a)(7), the officer shall order the alien removed from the United States without further hearing or review, unless—</text>
<subclause id="HD2FB2F7698A0444BBD7F096CED6BFAE0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the alien has been charged with a crime; or</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HE39AD50B808246999F598FC964813DF5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the alien indicates an intention to apply for asylum under section 208 or a fear of persecution and the officer determines that the alien has been physically present in the United States for less than 1 year.</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H7AEB60E15FBC4033004CC1F94859AA16"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Claims for asylum</header><text>If an immigration officer determines that an alien (other than an alien described in subparagraph (F)) who is arriving in the United States, or who has not been admitted or paroled into the United States and has not been physically present in the United States continuously for the 5-year period immediately prior to the date of the determination of inadmissibility under this paragraph, is inadmissible under section 212(a)(6)(C) or 212(a)(7), and the alien indicates either an intention to apply for asylum under section 208 or a fear of persecution, the officer shall refer the alien for an interview by an asylum officer under subparagraph (B) if the officer determines that the alien has been physically present in the United States for less than 1 year.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H77514BDF189B41C18DE4579539D02889"><enum>522.</enum><header>Adjustment of status for certain aliens</header>
<subsection id="H2C8B4F822D1A49F5A2F4E353B0844B2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Ineligibility for adjustment of status</header><text>Section 245(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(c)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>(other than an immediate relative as defined in section 201(b) or a special immigrant described in section 101(a)(27)(H), (I), (J), or (K))</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H9C0965683AC0444C914513163B7E33A7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Inapplicability of certain provisions for certain immigrants</header><text>Section 245(k) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(k)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H6B748F5ACB5A4B6F9718C1D984A23892"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Inapplicability of certain provisions for certain immigrants</header><text>An alien who is eligible to receive an immigrant visa under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 203(b), as an immediate relative as defined in section 201(b), or, in the case of an alien who is an immigrant described in subparagraph (C), (H), (I), (J), or (K) of section 101(a)(27), under section 203(b)(4), may adjust status pursuant to subsection (a) and notwithstanding paragraphs (2), (7), and (8) of subsection (c), if—</text>
<paragraph id="H459310660D374286811CE51C0000EC73"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the alien, on the date of filing an application for adjustment of status, is present in the United States pursuant to a lawful admission; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF2E00649565E4C1CBFA805823BAA500"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the alien, subsequent to such lawful admission has not, for an aggregate period exceeding 180 days—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA8CBA943CE614DC39D6DAB64EA585260"><enum>(A)</enum><text>failed to maintain continuously a lawful status;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0D0CB778042942EFBED0645CFE29C824"><enum>(B)</enum><text>engaged in unauthorized employment; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H901433FBA89948C4B021F0013CF40640"><enum>(C)</enum><text>otherwise violated the terms and conditions of the alien’s admission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H3459F0A690B842D88679F96CC75CD5"><enum>523.</enum><header>Termination of continuous presence for purposes of cancellation of removal upon commission of offense rendering alien inadmissible or deportable</header>
<subsection id="H3972C7E536B1455CADC9D031A2048DC8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240A(d)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(d)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>referred to in section 212(a)(2)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0A355B00FFC84C7A908EAD4D6D41CEF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to aliens who are in proceedings under the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> on or after the date of the enactment of this Act if those proceedings have not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H2B6AB71A0AEA4329B733F900D1F3789E"><enum>524.</enum><header>Reentry of removed aliens</header>
<subsection id="H6A1E5FE066674D2D8BEC06BB22F280AD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 276(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1326">8 U.S.C. 1326(a)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="H084F461D7E44427A8C4FAFEB6C6236B0"><enum>276.</enum>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H815A9606380D49BCB0BAEAB61CD2B49F"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Subject to subsection (b), any alien shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both, who—</text>
<paragraph id="H96F093434928462D92D4C35907DD500"><enum>(1)</enum><text>has been denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed or has departed the United States while an order of exclusion, deportation, or removal is outstanding; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0731A4B181F74363A6AA14B70000CD79"><enum>(2)</enum><text>thereafter enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in, the United States,</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">unless, in the case of an alien previously denied admission and removed, the alien establishes that the alien was not required to obtain from the Secretary of Homeland Security advance consent to reapply for admission under this Act or any prior Act.</continuation-text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HC638B05286BE4AA79408714791902336"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Criminal penalties for reentry of certain removed aliens</header><text>Section 276(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1326">8 U.S.C. 1326(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4BF46B160585475E83EC70453FB41E31"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>sentence.</quote> and inserting <quote>sentence;</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H39F7172A0CEF432A00819C8F67D4522B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>(unless the Secretary of Homeland Security has expressly consented to such alien’s reentry)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0971DF2BF68147F99D080024E19CAD0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reentry of aliens removed Prior to completion of imprisonment</header><text>Section 276(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1326">8 U.S.C. 1326(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H67E7850847EC464EA1493541F3A35209"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(as in effect prior to the effective date of the amendments made by section 305 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996), or removed under section 241(a)(4),</quote> after <quote>242(h)(2)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H95964E8BF89C4CA08235D62E3D05DC5D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(unless the Secretary of Homeland Security has expressly consented to such alien’s reentry)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1B640D35E38441439FA579A92112BE00"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or removal</quote> after <quote>time of deportation</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H24EDB5B573F242E285DEA031F219B166"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or removed</quote> after <quote>reentry of deported</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0894E8284252457595E941C0FB00DDE2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Challenge to validity of order</header><text>Section 276(d) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1326">8 U.S.C. 1326(d)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB227167B92FD45DBB4EE3E688FA2568E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>deportation order</quote> and inserting <quote>deportation or removal order</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H10C5E061AABB408C840062215DBB6C28"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by inserting <quote>or removal</quote> after <quote>deportation</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBF531E89B0CD46F58344FEFFEEDD1B31"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to criminal proceedings involving aliens who enter, attempt to enter, or are found in the United States, after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H3ADABFFBDC804313B01124D919822D3E"><enum>525.</enum><header>Criminal and civil penalties for entry of aliens at improper time or place, avoidance of examination or inspection, unlawful presence, and misrepresentation or concealment of facts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 275 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1325">8 U.S.C. 1325</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="H92509CDF1BFB402C9DC18592975363F8"><enum>275.</enum><header>Criminal and civil penalties for entry of aliens at improper time or place, avoidance of examination or inspection, unlawful presence, and misrepresentation or concealment of facts</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE9888EB603F2493E820583ABEEF05623"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Entry at improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; unlawful presence; misrepresentation or concealment of facts</header><text>Any alien who—</text>
<paragraph id="HDC1098F9B73A426CBF52EE1C1EECEB00"><enum>(1)</enum><text>enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HED1F6F3E989F412EBB05D91BEBF4C8FD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HF59877F72475474AA8B97EDD907055D6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>is knowingly unlawfully present in the United States for an aggregate period of more than 180 days; or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9F3C10D50FEB4C4381C1816998AEFD68"><enum>(4)</enum><text>attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact,</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="H4CE91D962378470F9D4DFF05E2134517"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Improper time or place; civil penalties</header><text>Any alien who is apprehended while entering (or attempting to enter) the United States at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers shall be subject to a civil penalty of—</text>
<paragraph id="HD5B669D06559412AA6E4A8DC92A2DBA3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>at least $100 and not more than $10,000 for each such entry (or attempted entry); or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0D0738E0E4954F1BB57C764FAD915816"><enum>(2)</enum><text>three times the amount specified in paragraph (1) in the case of an alien who has been previously subject to a civil penalty under this subsection.</text></paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be imposed.</continuation-text></subsection>
<subsection id="H37F796FF815C4E53B400D390AC26C7BF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Marriage fraud</header><text>An individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be fined not more than $1,000,000, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0EAB1533B2E9453D923F1297FE1FEBAD"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Immigration-related entrepreneurship fraud</header><text>Any individual who knowingly established a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HD0137BB766FF4F81AC2EB79CA4CFA9F4"><enum>526.</enum><header>Communication between government agencies and the Department of Homeland Security</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1373">8 U.S.C. 1373</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H6E27AB1859CF4A0083C8FEE1295B682"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Enforcement</header>
<paragraph id="HF5943B2A34AA4220AB007E46973D5931"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Ineligibility for Federal law enforcement aid</header><text>Upon a determination that any person, or any Federal, State, or local government agency or entity, is in violation of subsection (a) or (b), the Attorney General shall not provide to that person, agency, or entity any grant amount pursuant to any law enforcement grant program carried out by any element of the Department of Justice, including the program under section 241(i) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/241">8 U.S.C. 241(i)</external-xref>), or pursuant to any grant program authorized under title I of the <act-name parsable-cite="HCDA">Housing and Community Development Act of 1974</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5301">42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.</external-xref>), and shall ensure that no such grant amounts are provided, directly or indirectly, to such person, agency, or entity. In the case of grant amounts that otherwise would be provided to such person, agency, or entity pursuant to a formula, such amounts shall be reallocated among eligible recipients.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H71E743E4723D4B520049FEA15FBDEE8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Violations by government officials</header><text>In any case in which a Federal, State, or local government official is in violation of subsection (a) or (b), the government agency or entity that employs (or, at the time of the violation, employed) the official shall be subject to the sanction under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H69E70D2419384CD28CDF0052A546F4B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Duration</header><text>The sanction under paragraph (1) shall remain in effect until the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that the person, agency, or entity has ceased violating subsections (a) and (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H7B0411D6849C403BBDD8AF00EA6C006B"><enum>527.</enum><header>Exception to removal for certain aliens</header>
<subsection id="H788F71B382944BD8A9D8BC698BA35CF0"><enum>(a)</enum>
<paragraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HCAD28AFA7DF74815B1356004C983C0CD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 214(o) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(o)</external-xref>) (as redesignated by section 204 of this Act) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph indent="up1" id="H8AE1B0A374E74635BE00AB00A08D0090"><enum>(4)</enum><text>No alien shall be eligible for admission to the United States under section 101(a)(15)(T) if there is a substantial reason to believe that the alien voluntarily came to the United States, except that if the alien is or has been a victim of a severe form of trafficking in the form of sex trafficking, the alien shall be eligible for admission under such section unless the alien knew or reasonably should have known when coming to the United States that the alien would be expected to perform commercial sex acts.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H12F0796128E84DBAB41EDDBC9CDCFDFD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 245(l) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(l)</external-xref>), as added by section 107(f) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref>, is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H77140E4DA0FF4FE3AA15323E88745FA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(C)(i), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end and inserting <quote>and</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC7F4A550056E4048BEE0F1C1A22C411C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating—</text>
<clause id="HEBEDFECE092E47A281A6C426EEB3284C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs (4) and (5), respectively; and</text></clause>
<clause id="HE3F445B4C59944D3B700A9CCCF536F46"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the second paragraph (2) as paragraph (3);</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD4C3C77D8EB444F4B9C3AA878B55E483"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(B), by striking <quote>(3), (10)(C), and (10(E)), if the activities rendering the alien inadmissible under the provision were caused by, or were incident to,</quote> and inserting <quote>(2), (3), (8), (9)(A), (10)(C), (10)(D), and (10)(E)), if the activities rendering the alien inadmissible under the provision were caused by</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9765AC8EF79446F3AD6FE262EAAD8571"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (5) (as so redesignated) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H2D523D96204A466AA47CAD658BF24126"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Upon the approval of adjustment of status under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall record the alien’s lawful admission for permanent residence as of the date of such approval and the Secretary of State shall reduce by one the number of visas authorized to be issued under sections 201(d) and 203(b)(4) for the fiscal year then current, unless the number of remaining visas authorized to be issued under section 203(b)(4) for such year is zero, in which case such reductions shall not be made.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H736848B9E08846FA93A2EF1CB7006551"><enum>(b)</enum>
<paragraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H29B990E5FD9041E9A04600506CA65701"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(iii)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<clause indent="up2" id="HDAD9A4CA3B0B4691994656FAD979E25B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the criminal activity referred to in this clause is that involving 1 or more of the following or any similar activity in violation of Federal, State, or local criminal law: rape; incest; domestic violence, sexual assault; abusive sexual contact; sexual exploitation; female genital mutilation; or attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the above mentioned crimes; or</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H5A37AA234B4F418989576F4739716E9D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 204(a)(1)(C) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>directly</quote> before <quote>connected</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="HAA2AEF3B319B4DDC970374B8EF00E68"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 214(p)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184(p)(1)</external-xref>) (as redesignated by section 204 of this Act) is amended by striking <quote>This certification may also be provided by an official of the Department of Homeland Security whose ability to provide such certification is not limited to information concerning immigration violations.</quote>.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H2C016CAC809A4F72B8B3AD317070176D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 237(a)(1)(H) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H29581B094B17496AB400F6E2015D5E2D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking clause (ii);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC0271F9CD4E647E3B5D8DA5CBAD16C7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>(I)</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCBD472354B0747D0A2E8CA48B586E025"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating subclause (II) as clause (ii).</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H3883E0D2F0BE44539B608C992C5C934B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 240A (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0E7BE4C7FE604A53B50088C521A8C7F2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)(A)(ii), by striking <quote>, and the issuance of a charging document for removal proceedings shall not toll the 3-year period of continuous physical presence in the United States</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8954B043FDED4BB79815C032ED7D7960"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending subsection (b)(2)(A)(iv) to read as follows:</text>
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<clause id="HEFA7D93137DA456982156F36E3A2A5F"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the alien is not inadmissible under paragraph (2), (3), (8), (9)(A), (10)(C), (10)(D), or (10)(E) of section 212(a), is not deportable under paragraph (1)(E), (1)(G), or (2) through (4) of section 237(a) (except in a case described in section 237(a)(7) where the Secretary of Homeland Security exercises discretion to grant a waiver), and has not been convicted of an aggravated felony; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8DA3156E72CF4552943B85D47065756B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)(B)—</text>
<clause id="HA8328A7D87EB4A9889EA1100C84258DF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>direct</quote> before <quote>connection between the absence</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H0DD4BF1C840C4B3EB4FD1FDB6EF38808"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>directly</quote> before <quote>connected to the battering or extreme</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H4BAB698252894EC7A6B79C22B6F0BA4E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in the third sentence, by inserting <quote>battery or cruelty-related</quote> before <quote>absences or portions of the absences</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H2BA520AC8791487D9CEAA39432B0002"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2)(C), by inserting <quote>directly</quote> before <quote>connected</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H0DF550B2DFBF48E69BDAA0AECAE1DE6E"><enum>(v)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(4)(A), by striking <quote>shall</quote> and inserting <quote>may</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H95A85229AAAA449286E10248FEB63D"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(1), by striking <quote>except in the case of an alien who applies for cancellation of removal under subsection (b)(2),</quote>.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="HE82C9D5173C94563A5CD0023EE66DABF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Section 245 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref>) is amended by redesignating the subsection (l) that was added by section 1513(f) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref> as subsection (m) and in such redesignated subsection—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF949253C69CE48E18976987F64B4F536"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="H041803DA4A874901835BB6F8DAEE7117"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>section 212(a)(3)(E), unless the Attorney General determines based on affirmative evidence</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (2), (3), (8), (9)(A), (10)(C), (10)(D), or (10)(E) of section 212(a), unless the Attorney General determines</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="HAB08D8AC9046468EBAB604DACC5C2468"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (A);</text></clause>
<clause id="HEDA6AC2562564E258668077CF031AD01"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H8EE2A41EEBDD43B2A125ED6BC1F36829"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the alien has, throughout such period, been a person of good moral character; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H6EBF4C6767F146E79F23A8D76FCC4261"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the opinion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the alien or the alien’s spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, would suffer extreme hardship.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HD4917B9ACAA54E4AB1F43B718178834E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>or unless an official involved in the investigation or prosecution certifies that the absence was otherwise justified</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H0C3156D858AE4E75AD10002FBFDF48A5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="H288E87E4793544F786D3B8BCCF4D0079"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Upon the approval of adjustment of status under paragraph (1) or (3), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall record the alien’s lawful admission for permanent residence as of the date of such approval and the Secretary of State shall reduce by one the number of visas authorized to be issued under sections 201(d) and 203(b)(4) for the fiscal year then current, unless the number of remaining visas authorized to be issued under section 203(b)(4) for such year is zero, in which case such reductions shall not be made.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="HD9C285B1C6064F73B44B341FEFBFEA90"><enum>528.</enum><header>Voluntary departure</header>
<subsection id="H2BE6D8F7D34A4F46B000E5D5004CD0BE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240B (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229c">8 U.S.C. 1229c</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<section id="HA08037CBB8BE4C1EA7A35106C07CCAD8"><enum>240B.</enum><header>Voluntary departure</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7A63A0D8A032437390109B4BADD0059"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In lieu of proceedings</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may permit an alien voluntarily to depart the United States at the alien’s own expense under this subsection, in lieu of being subject to proceedings under section 240 and in lieu of applying for another form of relief from removal, if the alien is not deportable under paragraph (2)(A)(iii) or (4)(B) of section 237(a). Permission to depart voluntarily under this subsection shall not be valid for a period exceeding 90 days and cannot be extended. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall require an alien permitted to depart voluntarily under this subsection to post a voluntary departure bond, in an amount necessary to ensure that the alien will depart, to be surrendered upon proof that the alien has departed the United States within the time specified.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HAD621B96353C4F5E922CC82C43F677F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Prior to scheduling merits hearing</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may permit an alien voluntarily to depart the United States at the alien’s own expense under this subsection prior to the scheduling of the first merits hearing, in lieu of applying for another form of relief from removal, if the alien is not deportable under paragraph (2)(A)(iii) or (4)(B) of section 237(a). Permission to depart voluntarily under this subsection shall not be valid for a period exceeding 60 days and cannot be extended. The Secretary shall require an alien permitted to depart voluntarily under this subsection to post a voluntary departure bond, in an amount necessary to ensure that the alien will depart, to be surrendered upon proof that the alien has departed the United States within the time specified.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H0018671FFA064A7BA28FE13B5B0035B8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Once first merits hearing scheduled</header>
<paragraph id="H76605F0DCE4544D100CEFF3733F5BE34"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Once the first merits hearing has been scheduled under section 240, the Secretary of Homeland Security may permit an alien voluntarily to depart the United States at the alien’s own expense under this subsection, in lieu of pursuing another form of relief from removal, if the immigration judge enters an order granting voluntary departure in lieu of removal and finds that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2144C12714D2483582117F297290AB71"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the alien has been physically present in the United States for a period of at least one year immediately preceding the date the notice to appear was served under section 239(a);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFE04721B9F9B426FA54BBF82AE052CB7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the alien is, and has been, a person of good moral character for at least 5 years immediately preceding the alien’s application for voluntary departure;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H45AC9F8F84314D5A88B100B4E83936D4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the alien is not deportable under paragraph (2)(A)(iii) or (4)(B) of section 237(a); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE6655722C48A458C9C74D883E272CF36"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the alien has established by clear and convincing evidence that the alien has the means to depart the United States and intends to do so.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1EC7BFCAF2044089A6F150F4909415C7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Period</header><text>Permission to depart voluntarily under this subsection shall not be valid for a period exceeding 30 days and cannot be extended.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7E73F59070AB4D619CB58D740085D488"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Bond</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall require an alien permitted to depart voluntarily under this subsection to post a voluntary departure bond, in an amount necessary to ensure that the alien will depart, to be surrendered upon proof that the alien has departed the United States within the time specified.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H8364C77706364D86A9F3C76EFC5A167"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Aliens not eligible</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall not permit an alien to depart voluntarily under this section if the alien was previously permitted to depart voluntarily under section 244(e) or this section, or to voluntarily return, at any time.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HABFF7A1E144348B9A8116931A16D6E35"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Civil penalty for failure to depart</header><text>If an alien is permitted to depart voluntarily under this section and fails voluntarily to depart the United States within the time period specified, the alien shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $1,000 and not more than $5,000, and be ineligible for a period of 10 years for any further relief under this section and sections 240A, 245, 248, and 249. The order permitting the alien to depart voluntarily shall inform the alien of the penalties under this subsection.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H474A72CA3D0343AE9B00BDEE566E7F51"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Additional conditions</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security may by regulation limit eligibility for voluntary departure under this section for any class or classes of aliens. No court may review any regulation issued under this subsection.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H1D92B42583CA444AB906C7D9FAF0D7AC"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Treatment of aliens arriving in the United States</header><text>In the case of an alien who is arriving in the United States and with respect to whom proceedings under section 240 are (or would otherwise be) initiated at the time of such alien’s arrival, subsections (a) through (c) shall not apply. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as preventing such an alien from withdrawing the application for admission in accordance with section 235(a)(4).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H233E92FB542C4A958954C51D72B29EC2"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Review</header><text>There shall be no administrative or judicial review of a denial of a request for an order of voluntary departure. No court or agency shall order a stay of an alien’s removal pending consideration of any claim with respect to voluntary departure. The order permitting the alien to depart voluntarily shall inform the alien that the alien has no right to appeal any issue relating to the removal proceeding.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H37B65C5DC65548DCA8B8BC80900185B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to aliens who are in proceedings under the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> on or after such date if those proceedings have not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HDB02FBC10ACD49ABA98292B035323254"><enum>529.</enum><header>Cancellation of removal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 240A(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b(c)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HF8214D10224F408BA5DCC58C16F9A9F0">
<paragraph id="HC3E688FF23514DE9A442EBC642867CE"><enum>(7)</enum><text>An alien who is inadmissible under section 212(a)(9)(B)(i).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H7DC7EFDCA4CE4EBDB625D8B324B5F11B"><enum>530.</enum><header>Expedited removal of criminal aliens</header>
<subsection id="H04A2F76FC9F2469A984324C308CF8C61"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 238 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1228">8 U.S.C. 1228</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HBB0268F99F8A4A719EF5733869F15E33"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending the section heading to read as follows: <header-in-text level="section" style="OLC"><quote>Expedited removal of criminal aliens</quote></header-in-text></text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HDAD3F79333474A06BFDFDC05D8B958A7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by amending the subsection heading to read as follows: <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Expedited Removal from Correctional Facilities.—</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE313C6FFEF6B4F2E92FD65E3EDF00DA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by amending the subsection heading to read as follows: <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Removal of Criminal Aliens.—</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE67EF886F0194406A8A3786DBEFD26C7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H0819EC2F9E904FC994C35EDF25DFF01C">
<paragraph id="H79E366AE00F747F5848400A95477B012"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary may, in the case of an alien described in paragraph (2), determine the deportability of such alien and issue an order of removal pursuant to the procedures set forth in this subsection or section 240.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1083163D22FE45F18513E3B1BE83DC"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Aliens described</header><text>An alien is described in this paragraph if the alien, whether or not admitted into the United States, was convicted of any criminal offense described in subparagraph (A)(iii), (C), or (D) of section 237(a)(2).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H52F5B292B97647D8B1EC7406E242C8D5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in the first subsection (c) (relating to presumption of deportability), by striking <quote>convicted of an aggravated felony</quote> and inserting <quote>described in paragraph (b)(2)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H91F15F36BFE044ABB931F9DA8BDF1D04"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by redesignating the second subsection (c) (relating to judicial removal) as subsection (d); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8772D494AF87449494017429D6B14EB"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(5) (as so redesignated), and by striking <quote>, who is deportable under this Act,</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAF50767E00674908AEDCA82900D1FC7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limit on injunctive relief</header><text>Section 242(f)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1252">8 U.S.C. 1252(f)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>or stay, whether temporarily or otherwise,</quote> after <quote>enjoin</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H36ADEDFD36904FC28E72A81DE8F66EAB"><enum>531.</enum><header>Subject to the jurisdiction defined</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(c)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H1BE0E9FAA2C94FA8851B60C64BA2A99F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The term <term>subject to the jurisdiction of the United States</term> means that, at the time of birth in the United States, the mother or the father of the child, excluding aliens classified under subparagraph (A) or (G) of section 101(a)(15), resided lawfully therein.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H53683FCC7D5544EA9F0029C60091BBAC"><enum>532.</enum><header>Claims for services performed by unauthorized aliens</header>
<subsection id="H740C9D919DAF412AAEBC5BF7487B3A7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title II (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1151">8 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after section 271 the following:</text>
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<section id="H68ECD370AE05442FA55E3C4297201DD6"><enum>271A.</enum><header>Claims arising from services of aliens without work authorization</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HA7E2DAA5D1AE4E028C85AF1103ACD52"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>It shall be unlawful for any person, entity or enterprise, including any employer, contractor, employee, or independent contractor, to claim any deduction, credit, benefit, subsidy, rebate, grant or other payment otherwise authorized by any provision of the United States Code, including the Internal Revenue Code, derived from compensation in any form for labor or personal services provided in the United States that was paid to or on behalf of a person, knowingly or in reckless disregard of the fact that such person was, at the time such labor or services were performed, an unauthorized alien (as defined in section 274A(h)(3)).</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H99BB61BFBD7E46B99C2EE124A748CFA5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Enforcement</header>
<paragraph id="HAB2F5B6A57D54174BAAE3BEC153ED355"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Where any claim described in subsection (a) made by a person, entity, or enterprise amount in aggregate to $50,000 or more, a right of action shall exist for a State or local government agency or a private party to recover such sums on behalf of the United States.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H5F76DFDC53F84AB0AD66B339B11789E6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A complaint described in subparagraph (i) shall be made in writing under oath or affirmation to the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer of the Executive Office for Immigration Review.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25EBE41600E04A77BD8C83A059AD2304"><enum>(3)</enum><text>No complaint may be filed in which all alleged violations occurred more than two years prior to the filing of the complaint.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H698B873DC15745E3B07741473937B8EA"><enum>(4)</enum><text>A prevailing private party acting on behalf of the United States shall be awarded 25 percent from any sums recovered.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE8C73614FB3E4295ADD1E5C35775EFE6"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Adjudication of a complaint shall proceed under the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/551">5 U.S.C. 551 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA332AB5A5BD7407995FB82F5FD49D546"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The administrative law judge may grant the prevailing party reasonable attorney’s fees if the judge determines that the opposing party’s argument was without reasonable basis in law and fact.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H66E5E275430C4B26AC4958349005E123"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 270 the following:</text>
<quoted-block style="USC" act-name="Immigration" id="HF6EE4B84D839472AAB06A743E61BE1DC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">270A. Claims arising from services of aliens without work authorization</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>
<section id="H379C7A8230E0487FAF7B37952C3633A"><enum>533.</enum><header>Restriction on warrantless entry</header>
<subsection id="HEDC562EAE36047C29EA8E985A11B96D9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 287(e) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1357">8 U.S.C. 1357(e)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>that is an active participant in an employment verification system approved by the Secretary of Homeland Security</quote> after <quote>farm or other outdoor agricultural operation</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H2036CF9386534B48A4E4C18B9498AE7B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date described in section 511(b).</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<enum>VI</enum><header>Eliminating excessive review and dilatory and abusive tactics by aliens in removal proceedings</header>
<section id="H4CB9FCB1C6B8479198369422F5EA373B"><enum>601.</enum><header>Frivolous applications</header>
<subsection id="H890AC64F74B14AE88E46F9EAB076DAF0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (6) of section 208(d) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(d)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>As used in this section, the term <term>frivolous application</term> means an application that lacks a reasonably arguable basis either in law or in fact. If an alien withdraws an application for asylum and pursues another benefit or form of relief under this Act, the alien shall bear the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence, in the adjudication respecting such other benefit or form of relief, that such asylum application was not a frivolous application. If the alien fails to carry such burden, the alien shall be permanently ineligible for any benefit under this Act.</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H8F0D2A6E6E184F8D81D5BDD7529FB91B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications for asylum pending on or after such date if the application has not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HABB82DA83B204F1B8B078D25336230A6"><enum>602.</enum><header>Continuances; change of venue</header>
<subsection id="HCD56C647E2B14B0EAD443CF3B69D4653"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 240(b)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229a">8 U.S.C. 1229a(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HFD27DF9F1E22420481D1FB2D44AB4450"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The immigration judge may not grant a continuance to permit an alien to become eligible for relief under any provision of law. In proceedings under this section or under section 236, the immigration judge may not grant a change of venue for an alien who has not been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States. For all other aliens, the immigration judge may grant a change of venue only if the alien demonstrates that the alien cannot obtain a fair proceeding in the current venue.</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HCAD25AEA1B37419097F8A1EFC7660059"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to continuances and changes of venue sought after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HFDBC589AD3504BCD8B85786BF2961219"><enum>603.</enum><header>Burden of proof in asylum proceedings</header>
<subsection id="H6FFBC091BF4745A187F361AEC05D004B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 208(b)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HD838A11B0DF5495B9C356C00BF17D9D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(1) In general.—The Attorney General</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD595C8DF988145828CEC397103F39D">
<paragraph id="H60F3B720095449139EB155785C9F1F75"><enum>(1)</enum><header>If alien is a refugee</header>
<subparagraph id="H312278E3DEF643BBA582D8128B1DF5A9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="down1" id="HE909CE8B09A74227842423633DE619B7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H7F90237F79014F26A133AC16D07418D9">
<subparagraph id="HEA37E37A3E3A46F6009322A99673531B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Burden of proof</header><text>The burden of proof is on the applicant for asylum to establish that he or she is a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42). The testimony of the applicant, if credible, may be sufficient to sustain such burden without corroboration. Where it is reasonable to expect corroborating evidence for certain alleged facts pertaining to the specifics of an alien’s claim for asylum, such evidence must be provided unless a reasonable explanation is given as to why such information is not presented.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H6FC6FD69D0A84D90B683CEF6988D8636"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications for asylum pending on or after such date if the application has not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HF7CD532CE9D44484805896F712345D64"><enum>604.</enum><header>Review of Convention Against Torture grants and denials</header>
<subsection id="H99CE2B4824134F2C8DF4A19B9CAF3091"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 241(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1231">8 U.S.C. 1231(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text>
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<paragraph id="HEDD81555DB994581B25945425811434C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Elimination of review</header><text>A determination as to whether the removal of an alien to any country should be withheld or deferred under the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment shall be made by the Secretary of Homeland Security. There shall be no administrative or judicial review of a determination of the Secretary under this section.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H1914358EB80F463C836DE6C187009C49"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications pending on or after such date if the application has not resulted in a final administrative order before such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H829D73CD3E2A4BD19BA2E86F243F8F53"><enum>605.</enum><header>Time limit for decisions in administrative appeals</header>
<subsection id="H2A5D5F77379D44469C076C5328516B85"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Chapter 9 of title II of the Act is amended by inserting after section 294 the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block style="traditional" id="H0B2692B68EF643DC8CBBE022B100671E">
<section id="HF780B71AF7F34CDF82E6478F8176CDF"><enum>295.</enum><header>Rules for decisions in administrative appeals</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H3F01F3A51C6544BF965010574DD1B583"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>A decision in any administrative appeal from a decision of an immigration judge shall be issued not later than 180 days after the appeal is filed. If the appeal is not decided before such deadline, the decision of the immigration judge shall be final, unless the Attorney General certifies the decision for review.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HE3056B84871C46458F008C6CF36EF419"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Standard of review</header><text>In any administrative appeal from a decision of an immigration judge, such judge’s determinations of factual issues, including findings as to the credibility of testimony, shall be accepted unless they are clearly erroneous.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HF77D330DA44A4E0BB999A5493E936B73"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 294 the following:</text>
<quoted-block style="USC" act-name="Immigration and Nationality Act" id="H225B04862787429B83981615F96C8500">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">295. Rules for decisions in administrative appeals</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H1E691E1E902D41EF951FF8A2F3F5AC1B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to decisions appealed on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HC7CF4D1BA9A24BD5A5DF1518649C2700"><enum>606.</enum><header>Review of asylum claims</header>
<subsection id="HB3313F76162F439A8DB4D97748DEBAFB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Judicial review</header>
<paragraph id="H658968B319A04B7FA9DDBFABE28C9CE7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 208 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H81883BDD09994927B87CBC83912D01C8">
<subsection id="H641000B1944F403EBD046F3756D52B2F"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Limitation on judicial review</header><text>No court shall have jurisdiction to review any decision of the Secretary of Homeland Security or the Attorney General under this section.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H148DBF0E5BC94707AF932B4ECE5441D5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text>Section 242 (8 U.S.C 1252) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H63D8FCF726724BB280604CC3D68DA9B7"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2)(B)(i), by inserting <quote>208,</quote> before <quote>212(h),</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8A80046B5D5647438D146907679F5363"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii), by striking <quote>General,</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>General.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H260C5D9E41EC4B52ADA4557BEC9C53DA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(4)—</text>
<clause id="HFFDCB4C1DBAF4123847177D23823BEAA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></clause>
<clause id="HBAECF7BF5E084C89B1001E37AAC500F9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>, and</quote> at the end and inserting a period; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H0FDA3A45FE1240199F54B3B6AA9BFC48"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (D).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA4DEA7F86C774E68ABACF10000366B3B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on asylum office</header><text>Section 208(d) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(d)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HEF9200E71FEB430A8106130172690040"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Other procedural matters</header>
<subparagraph id="HB9E3D6CF8F1C4FCCB2443C886916492E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Determination of lawful status</header>
<clause id="H46761B595F0B4EB38CB0D734A7023F8F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of an alien who is physically present in the United States and who has applied to the Secretary of Homeland Security for asylum, the Secretary shall determine whether the alien is inadmissible or deportable before the Secretary prepares to schedule the applicant for an asylum interview. If the Secretary determines that the alien is not inadmissible or deportable, the Secretary shall adjudicate the asylum application and render a decision granting or denying asylum. If the Secretary determines that the alien is inadmissible or deportable before the Secretary prepares to schedule an interview, the Secretary shall place the alien in removal proceedings without adjudicating the asylum application. The alien may then pursue such application in such proceedings.</text></clause>
<clause id="H024AE5F2B44A434697004CC602C59565"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Review of determinations</header><text>If an alien’s asylum application has been denied by the Secretary, in any administrative or judicial appeal from such denial, the Secretary’s determinations of factual issues, including findings as to the credibility of testimony, shall be accepted into evidence.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC41507B0AFF54F3E00F5154BF9FBFB04"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Recording of interviews</header><text>The Secretary shall record asylum interviews and include any such recording in the applicant’s file and record of proceedings.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H2229B907CB694D5EA3C87E00F1E134C0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to decisions rendered on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H375B8F971781428DABE37D80A831D24"><enum>607.</enum><header>Judicial review</header>
<subsection id="H8977C714289F4214804EED3800F12897"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Orders against criminal aliens</header><text>Subparagraph (C) of section 242(a)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1252">8 U.S.C. 1252(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2B7207FA9AD543119BEB62C4466F0598"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>no court shall have jurisdiction</quote> and inserting <quote>including <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/28/2241">section 2241</external-xref> of title 28, United States Code, no court shall have jurisdiction, except as provided in this section,</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HEF36BE5AF3DE49E389A8372BC0BC6B00"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following: <quote>Such review shall be limited to constitutional challenges or statutory claims involving pure issues of law,</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA576AAE0314048B3B275397B1F653378"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Venue for review of orders of Removal</header><text>Section 242(b)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1252">8 U.S.C. 1252(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>with the court of appeals for the judicial circuit in which the immigration judge completed the proceedings.</quote> and inserting <quote>with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD6962F2C7E1346689B69AC392FCBFB00"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Federal circuit court appeals</header>
<paragraph id="H79399B3FEAD3457CB774A1E00656A05E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Title I of the Act is amended by inserting after section 105 the following:</text>
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<section id="H5504BEF66C01400B8C35AADD7B85C05F"><enum>106.</enum><header>Rules for decisions in administrative appeals</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the final order of a district court of the United States in any proceeding under this Act, or under any other immigration law of the United States, shall be subject to review, on appeal, by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. There shall be no right of appeal in such proceedings to any other circuit court of appeals. The law applied by the Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, shall be regarded as the rule of decision in any proceeding under this Act.</text></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA97BABB7420C4B4A8E5036546185FA2F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 105 the following:</text>
<quoted-block style="USC" act-name="Immigration and Nationality Act" id="H779E447453224052949F8BB57CE87855">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">106. Federal circuit court appeals</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section>
<enum>VII</enum><header>Emergency immigration workload reduction</header>
<section id="H2A89EDC7CC754AAAB5DC1502920040FB"><enum>701.</enum><header>Congressional findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Congress finds as follows:</text>
<paragraph id="H4E7B3933328D4C37872D4444918F33CD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The effective establishment and organization of the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security is imperative if the Directorate is to carry out the immigration enforcement and immigration services responsibilities delegated to it by the Congress in the manner expected by the American people.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HAEB30B38F6AD4CB99E98E18232D488C2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The effective implementation of these duties will not be achieved without an unacceptable compromise to the security interests of the United States unless certain visa programs are temporarily suspended, and other material assistance is provided to law enforcement agencies and other entities that support the immigration enforcement functions of the Directorate, until such time as the Secretary of Homeland Security can make the certifications to Congress required in section 708.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1A1BA28ED26A4B8784EF95CF435B2905"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Such certifications, taken together, will establish the effective operational transfer of immigration enforcement functions to the new Directorate.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H72195D31296E4EF8886FBA3E7B9E446B"><enum>702.</enum><header>Temporary suspension of visa waiver program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The admission of aliens to the United States under the provisions of section 217 of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1187">8 U.S.C. 1187</external-xref>) is suspended.</text></section>
<section id="HD4BE8833432744548017D123405CA0F1"><enum>703.</enum><header>Temporary suspension of adjustment of status applications</header>
<subsection id="HBCF4D48DCE8E438BAE092865259300F5"><enum>(a)</enum><text>The admission of aliens described in section 101(a)(15)(V) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(V)</external-xref>) is suspended.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H3DCD6670ADF84635AFB83C3979CA10BA"><enum>(b)</enum><text>The authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to adjust the status of any alien to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under sections 240A or 245 of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b</external-xref>, 1255) is suspended.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HEE90DF6FA58040CEA3399641EE4C0071"><enum>(c)</enum><text>The suspensions described in subsections (a) and (b) shall include the suspension of acceptance for filing of applications for adjustment of status described in such subsection.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HC542CF3D25D14273A972AECCE93DF3F7"><enum>(d)</enum><text>Subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to aliens described in sections 101(a)(15)(K) or 101(a)(42) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(K)</external-xref>, 1101(a)(42)).</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HDDEE6077634E409AA559BE1C68E004D8"><enum>704.</enum><header>Temporary suspension of renewals of temporary protected status</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security to renew or extend any designation made under subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 244(b)(1) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1254">8 U.S.C. 1254(b)(1)</external-xref>) is suspended.</text></section>
<section id="H1D26F383F64F40E3860010897C96474E"><enum>705.</enum><header>Curtailment of visas for countries denying or delaying repatriation of nationals</header>
<subsection id="HF2F8772456314619A205AD491E72D5D7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Public listing of aliens with no significant likelihood of Removal</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish and maintain a public listing of every alien who is subject to a final order of removal and with respect to whom the Secretary or any Federal court has determined that there is no significant likelihood of removal in the reasonably foreseeable future due to the refusal, or unreasonable delay, of all countries designated by the alien or under this section to receive the alien. The public listing shall indicate whether such alien has been released from federal custody, and the city and state in which such alien resides.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H7BF85ED5797343B88FD93CB367234F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Discontinuation of visas</header><text>In the case of any foreign state for which 24 or more of the citizens, subjects, or nationals of such state appear on the public listing described in paragraph (a), such foreign state shall be deemed to have denied or unreasonably delayed the acceptance of such aliens, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall make the notification to the Secretary of State prescribed in section 243(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1253">8 U.S.C. 1253(d)</external-xref>). The Secretary of State shall accordingly discontinue the issuance of non-immigrant visas to citizens, subjects, or nationals of such foreign state.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H8340A15DA3EA4D97949E7704A8BE6462"><enum>706.</enum><header>Waiver of suspensions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security may in his or her discretion waive, on an individual case-by-case basis, the suspension of applications under sections 702, 703, or 704, if the beneficiaries of such applications are not inadmissible under section 212(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1182">8 U.S.C. 1182(a)</external-xref>) or deportable under section 237(a) of such Act (8 U.S.C 1227).</text></section>
<section id="H6996C07F7784413288A17CABC158AAC"><enum>707.</enum><header>Termination of temporary suspensions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The emergency suspension of issuance of nonimmigrant visas, and of admissions to the United States, as mandated by sections 702 through 704, shall terminate one week after the certification by the Secretary of Homeland Security to the Congress that the following conditions are satisfied:</text>
<paragraph id="H1C6E6F29AE944F27A582136093A7EC12"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The integrated entry and exit data system required by the Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/215">Public Law 106–215</external-xref>), including the requirements added by section 302(a) of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>), is fully operational at all ports of entry.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HCE9B1D99D516444C80122EB412E0A453"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The system of machine-readable tamper-resistant visas and other alien travel and entry documents described in section 202 of this Act is fully implemented at all ports of entry.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA092F7BC2B354438B10055EBEC4F6015"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Department of Homeland Security has the operational capability to take into custody and remove from the United States any alien described in section 237(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)</external-xref>) who has been lawfully detained by a State or local law enforcement agency, and such agency has notified the Department of such detention.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H75526F7B237D4554BC806036B00280A7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The data system for the registration of aliens under chapter 7 of title II of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/261">8 U.S.C. 261 et seq.</external-xref>) is fully operational and—</text>
<subparagraph id="H91A00B2FC1A04F11AB4711FB265C1F8B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is fully compliant with the data system integration and interoperability standards enacted in section 202(a) of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H59A05DA4FE6E48DBB47B35007CF6DD5C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensures the entry of all registrations made in accordance with section 221(b) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1201">8 U.S.C. 1201(b)</external-xref>) into the registration system at the time of the relevant visa application;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H5E55BEA398F34EEFA7D6AE000354C9A0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensures that all other registrations made under procedures required by section 264 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1304">8 U.S.C. 1304</external-xref>) are entered into the data system within 72 hours of receipt from the alien of an approved form of registration; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H78A0A52D0542450F889CEB967C37EDC3"><enum>(D)</enum><text>ensures that all notices of change of address required by section 265 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1305">8 U.S.C. 1305</external-xref>) are entered in the data system within 5 working days of receipt from the alien of an approved change of address form.</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H49B9C8B0DA6F45328FC2D948AB85CA82"><enum>(5)</enum><text>A program for the random audit of the backlog of applications for changes in immigration status by aliens present in the United States existing on the effective date of this Act has been fully implemented by the Department of Homeland Security.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6F2B5D63B5934A0A85877E97AFFECBF5"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The program described in paragraph (5) reliably indicates that the estimated incidence of fraud or false statements is no more than three percent of all approved applications and a program is in place to ensure that all benefits granted on the basis of such fraud or false statements are revoked in a timely manner.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H06D78FD1ED454F03A62F310087E4EB5C"><enum>(7)</enum><text>The foreign student monitoring system described in section 641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1372">8 U.S.C. 1372</external-xref>), as amended and expanded by sections 501 and 502 of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>), is fully operational, and no educational institution certified to receive nonimmigrant students under subparagraph (F), (M), or (J) of section 101(a)(15) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)</external-xref>) knowingly registers or admits aliens present in the United States in violation of law.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H970DD2873F0747DAA8DB17C04435C020"><enum>(8)</enum><text>The number of aliens removed from the United States, during the 4 month period preceding the month in which the certification under this section is executed, was at least 25 percent higher than in the comparable period of the previous year.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9972E77909884457BCC668181C390682"><enum>(9)</enum><text>All reports and plans, and all operational transfers of functions, required under title IV of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/6/201">6 U.S.C. 201 et seq.</external-xref>) have been successfully performed and implemented to the extent required by law as of the certification date.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6355CCCD6D394BD6839EA3B9BD2983F0"><enum>(10)</enum><text>The annual report required by section 205(b) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (8 U.S.C.1574(b)), for the fiscal year preceding the date of the certification, has been submitted to the Congress.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H8CD11955533B4A25A839706806954417"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Process changes described in section 205(b)(2)(C)(vi) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1574">8 U.S.C. 1574(b)(2)(C)(vi)</external-xref>) have been implemented and are substantially operational.</text></paragraph></section>
<section id="H81D5A77B8AC04D72801F35A48DA12767"><enum>708.</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The provisions of this title shall take effect at midnight on the first Saturday that occurs two weeks after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></section>
<enum>VIII</enum><header>Reforming legal immigration</header>
<subtitle id="H21F714275D4C4B6CAC44AAE4DCC70042"><enum>A</enum><header>Promotion of citizenship</header>
<section id="HF421C8D4BA3B413297F64EDBB0FBDEBE"><enum>801.</enum><header>Changes in naturalization requirements</header>
<subsection id="HD1BA58AEBD3143068FF1EF4DE3B3A92F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Study of naturalization examination</header>
<paragraph id="H9E91A2D9313345E883B43B8EB3929271"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Chief of the Office of Citizenship of the Department of Homeland Security shall conduct a study of the scope and nature of the examination of applicants for naturalization. The study shall analyze the value of the questions on the exam, and recommend questions that ought to be eliminated and new questions that ought to be included. The study shall recommend new questions to be included that gauge an applicant’s understanding of the principles in the oath of allegiance required under section 337(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1448">8 U.S.C. 1448(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H773F82B9DC574F1FBDF69823CBD264D8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Civics course</header><text>The study shall also analyze and make recommendations as to whether applicants for naturalization ought to be required to complete a course in civic education.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0AEAAB0CCF924B55B70011BF4EB2EAC5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief of the Office of Citizenship for the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit a report to the Congress containing the results of the study conducted under this subsection. The report shall also contain a proposed revised examination to be administered to applicants for naturalization that reflects the recommendations developed through the study. In developing the proposed examination, the Chief of the Office of Citizenship shall consult with interested groups specializing in immigration issues, civics organizations, patriotic associations, and veterans’ groups.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HAE71B6584DA74275BDE37B3EACB68D00"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Requiring applicants for naturalization to understand oath</header>
<paragraph id="HE97282BE3842433FB2869936BB887234"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Requirements for naturalization</header><text>Section 312(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1423">8 U.S.C. 1423(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB5278F438B3B4BF6943FE21B9D24D33"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H284B84DBAA0844139F8874664E2293CD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFE0DD7BCC0604E06B9FCF6255D91C4E2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H7CE21DC7A5684EBD8C524E68CC47E45C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>an understanding of the oath of allegiance required under section 337(a).</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H84D9FBAE0EB345E5AEAA60D580D1A98C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Examination</header><text>Section 332(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1443">8 U.S.C. 1443(a)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before <quote>ability</quote> the following: <quote>understanding of the oath of allegiance required under section 337(a),</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HA15F24071A4845D0B0D26425AF9E6140"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Contents of certificate of naturalization</header><text>Section 338 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1449">8 U.S.C. 1449</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before <quote>and the seal</quote> the following: <quote>the oath of allegiance required under section 337(a); a statement that the applicant recognizes the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship;</quote>.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H75E61A320EA04886A3EBB068A6AC0381"><enum>802.</enum><header>Oath of renunciation and allegiance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 337(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1448">8 U.S.C. 1448(a)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>the child is unable to understand its meaning.</quote> the following: <quote>The oath referred to in this section shall read the same as the oath provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) of part 337.1 of title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on September 1, 2003.</quote>.</text></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="HDF68B74A24204B3995B979D930D58D1"><enum>B</enum><header>Treatment of nationals of State sponsors of terrorism</header>
<section id="H7D50EC39DC5D4D18A6E5CA42016836CB"><enum>811.</enum><header>Treatment of nationals of State sponsors of terrorism</header>
<subsection id="HED5BC003B0714E53AC756ED0B229E238"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header>
<paragraph id="HF6A1345F7CB84B8EA9A86EFEAF43F75D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Amendment</header><text>Chapter 9 of title II, as amended by section 265 of this Act, is further amended by inserting after section 295 the following new section:</text>
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<section id="HD4ADD3DABA9C4A24AF1860BDCD1D9DE1"><enum>296.</enum><header>Treatment of nationals of State sponsors of terrorism</header>
<subsection display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H16C73D21C0E647159E5509A463624DD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No nonimmigrant or immigrant visa may be issued, or nonimmigrant or immigrant status otherwise provided, other than a visa or status described in section 101(a)(15)(A) or 201(b)(2)(A)(i), to any alien who is a national of, or residing in, a country that is determined to be a state sponsor of terrorism, except the Secretary of Homeland Security (or the consular officer, in the case of an application for a visa) may, on a case-by-case basis, waive the application of this subsection in the case of an alien who—</text>
<paragraph id="H8EA0F3087E744C7B8229DEE46332E5ED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>requires examination or treatment for an emergency medical condition (as defined in section 562(d) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1396">8 U.S.C. 1396(d)</external-xref>)); or</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4BE15EE241A942B5B91B41F043B1809"><enum>(2)</enum><text>is eligible for admission as a refugee under section 207 or for asylum under section 208.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H4A370D6B9E6E44CDBD8183FE90D8FE91"><enum>(b)</enum><header>State sponsor of terrorism defined</header>
<paragraph id="HB7EEAF0E715646B6B053DC06BAD7E782"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In this section, the term <term>state sponsor of terrorism</term> means any country the government of which has been determined by the Secretary of State under any of the laws specified in paragraph (2) to have repeatedly provided support for acts of terrorism. Such term shall apply to a country beginning on the date on which such determination takes effect and ending on the date on which such determination is withdrawn, terminated, revoked, or otherwise ceases to be effective.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H63CAD1EE7770488AA0AE0905CC8CEC3D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Laws under which determinations were made</header><text>The laws specified in this paragraph are the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="HDF5FA797EE5A4D79BF5869BA57E4EE00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section 6(j)(1)(A) of the <act-name parsable-cite="EAA79">Export Administration Act of 1979</act-name> (or successor statute).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HE4145A06E07B436194EFD958534BA1C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 40(d) of the <act-name parsable-cite="AECA">Arms Export Control Act</act-name>.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HFEBFA68C5F13447CA6C76C9634FFE3AD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 620A(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="FAA61">Foreign Assistance Act of 1961</act-name>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HE45533CC4BB04CDE9EA81B857D3E1A9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of contents of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 295 the following:</text>
<quoted-block style="USC" act-name="Immigration and Nationality Act" id="H6202FA8A553A4BAA00BB635326F63E97">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">296. Treatment of nationals of state sponsors of terrorism</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H49F6C763A9414F2B9B1BC5F41CAFD177"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to visas issued, or status provided, on and after such date.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HBD0711D15FE34F1F83E3D093F5EC2C00"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application to admitted nonimmigrants</header><text>In the case of a nonimmigrant alien lawfully admitted into the United States who would have been ineligible to be granted such nonimmigrant status if the amendments made by subsection (a) had been in effect on the date on which such status was granted, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the period of authorized admission as such a nonimmigrant shall terminate 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, unless the Secretary of Homeland Security makes an individualized determination described in section 296(a) of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and Nationality Act</act-name> (as added by subsection (a)) with respect to the alien.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HD3BA68A0A5E64D3C9526B5B02680D247"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section 306 of the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/107/173">Public Law 107–173</external-xref>) is repealed.</text></subsection></section></subtitle>
<subtitle id="H1BFB432DBCD54E42BC3E7B372E9797B1"><enum>C</enum><header>Legal immigration reform</header>
<section id="HCE9B6CE3BEF448FC924B5CEACAF9BA00"><enum>821.</enum><header>Extended family preference categories</header>
<subsection id="H25F62696611A4DB19DD24CC577C6E6E7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 203(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1153">8 U.S.C. 1153(a)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="H3E8192331E9C4203AC3388F560671CD0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Preference allocation for family-sponsored immigrants</header><text>Qualified immigrants who are the spouses or children of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence shall be subject to the worldwide level specified in section 201(c) for family-sponsored immigrants, and shall be allocated visas in a number not to exceed such level.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HE6DE89E1042B43F7AC817809CCC00DB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Worldwide level of family-sponsored immigrants</header><text>Section 201(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1151">8 U.S.C. 1151(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDB0B467DA2504F539448AD6D83227327"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>480,000</quote> and inserting <quote>87,934</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H155352850C404AA2932397187C3FEFFB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>226,000</quote> and inserting <quote>87,934</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HE08177FF61BD4A04A9A8C827BA9FE9AA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Numerical limitation to any single foreign State</header><text>Section 202 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1152">8 U.S.C. 1152</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HED3A484FDB6C42FC0033535CB908DE90"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(4), by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H112F2D36610C4AD2B62FC5161BF9EFE"><enum>(A)</enum><header>75 percent not Subject to per country limitation</header><text>Of the visa numbers made available under section 203(a) in any fiscal year, 75 percent shall be issued without regard to the numerical limitation under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H0D9BCC082E1D4D1FB967B4F4D3C88442"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H28A3B188D0BD49BDB35EF9B4AF34DAC5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1C11D74F5A364ADF9EDE002F1158E5B3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (2); and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBD21D000236947CAA3FAC1A113E7C0B7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H872F80440E5D4C59B99BD3F3DB607543"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Procedure for granting immigrant status</header><text>Section 204 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H93033CC6D920412981B5B9DB73BBE6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1)(A)(i), by striking <quote>paragraph (1), (3), or (4) of</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H25D4D4761B6E4B4BA1DE25A52CB8A9D8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking <quote>203(a)(2)</quote> and <quote>203(a)(2)(A)</quote> each place such terms appear and inserting <quote>203(a)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HFD3F450CFE10492FA5E863527C5D7B98"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(1)(D)(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H91B3260110714C7A8EA0B998D4F93886"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by striking <quote>a petitioner for preference status under paragraph (1), (2), or (3)</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>to be an individual under 21 years of age for purposes of adjudicating such petition, and for purposes of admission as an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i), notwithstanding the actual age of the individual.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H1475539098FE4C90B93F48CD947ADF2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subclause (III), by striking <quote>paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 203(a), whichever paragraph is applicable,</quote> and inserting <quote>section 203(a), and under 21 years of age (notwithstanding the actual age of the individual),</quote>; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD92A221A093E441400E4886C8B51A9F1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (f), by striking <quote>201(b), 203(a)(1), or 203(a)(3), as appropriate.</quote> and inserting <quote>201(b).</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H163597F45E2F4211BD8ED0830069BEE0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Classes of deportable aliens</header><text>Section 237(a)(1)(E)(ii) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1227">8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(E)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>203(a)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>203(a)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H05F022A0EDB94989952F93FDB94F4C38"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Conditional permanent resident status for certain alien spouses and sons and daughters</header><text>Section 216(g)(1)(C) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1186a">8 U.S.C. 1186a(g)(1)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>203(a)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>203(a)</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="H121F85A2B02A457194CD95C1FC8E0021"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H14AEEC5B13474F5DB98C506EDE2B17AE"><enum>822.</enum><header>Employment third preference category</header>
<subsection id="H295291885C29479CAF4180DD4AF0769"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraph (3) of section 203(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1153">8 U.S.C. 1153(b)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HA09AA83C13934AFCAAD040984216C7A5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Skilled workers and professionals</header>
<subparagraph id="H083FC2DAC0AE4942B4C098406BC4741"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Visas shall be made available, in a number not to exceed 28.6 percent of such worldwide level, plus any visas not required for the classes specified in paragraphs (1) and (2), to the following classes of aliens who are not described in paragraph (2):</text>
<clause id="H0BD6099B67FB4FB18ED31BA2A66926E1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Skilled workers</header><text>Qualified immigrants who are capable, at the time of petitioning for classification under this paragraph, of performing skilled labor (requiring at least 2 years training or experience), not of a temporary or seasonal nature, for which qualified workers are not available in the United States.</text></clause>
<clause id="H27626606A5944B2E8F8EB8B152FCAE26"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Professionals</header><text>Qualified immigrants who hold baccalaureate degrees and who are members of the professions.</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H73B6B903FE48465796E3DD00B0C2AD94"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Labor certification required</header><text>An immigrant visa may not be issued to an immigrant under subparagraph (A) until the consular officer is in receipt of a determination made by the Secretary of labor pursuant to the provisions of section 212(a)(5)(A).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HEE7ABEFB8B4142948CBCF9EB31D079F2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H3892D08C29A643A481CE007DD709DD1C"><enum>823.</enum><header>Elimination of diversity immigrant program</header>
<subsection id="H61DEE9A22B54432286BC01AE1B70D6C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Worldwide level of diversity immigrants</header><text>Section 201 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1151">8 U.S.C. 1151</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H04BD0E17E7604A4F9C5FB4610074C4F9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5751E08AE95D471B8D11FE53FC008169"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (1);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HF90E1D42338A4473B0FB84AE975B5582"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>; and</quote> at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting a period; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HCC74636D6FDE470D8E97F1B88B6B23DF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (3); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4EFD2CFF57024F6A991BD9B1C06E9EA8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection (e).</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H29559F37E5A94DBCB862EFDFAC67A25B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Allocation of diversity immigrant visas</header><text>Section 203 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1153">8 U.S.C. 1153</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H33351C8B3F2F402B87BA14F4D6458363"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (c);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HD8A3870D570E4C9586B33510D6B0FC7F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking <quote>(a), (b), or (c),</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) or (b),</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H6A4476F45AE048CE8EC2967F8421C3F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HB0E5B260AC3148E1AFAFF3FDBC0036C9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (f), by striking <quote>(a), (b), or (c)</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) or (b)</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HC4220E9DF63045EA9DCD1B181C6343D7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (g), by striking <quote>(a), (b), and (c)</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) and (b)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="HCDCC30D876C4414EBFD54CCB70AC00F9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Procedure for granting immigrant status</header><text>Section 204 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1154">8 U.S.C. 1154</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H499E688BF6724102A7D0C51F85B3D226"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (a)(1)(I); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H3B78A96348B74DCC9FAD69FB24BA0038"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by striking <quote>(a), (b), or (c)</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) or (b)</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H3C2E985D187F4494A3872534A5408EBD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H8BE558F6FBF447F6B4328F6DE524DB56"><enum>824.</enum><header>Refugee admissions</header>
<subsection id="H8787C04A3B3E4A4A84BDCC6F00220504"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 207(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1157">8 U.S.C. 1157(a)</external-xref>) are amended to read as follows:</text>
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<subsection id="HB4AB7EBF6C3C48B1B7C2EBCE4D4BA3C7"><enum>(a)</enum>
<paragraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H320B7FC23CA542178636AB5EC26EABD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) and subsection (b), the number of refugees who may be admitted under this section in any fiscal year shall be such number as the President determines, before the beginning of the fiscal year and after appropriate consultation, is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.</text></paragraph>
<paragraph indent="up1" id="H51BF2EA88A534BCC87B27DA3744379F9"><enum>(2)</enum>
<subparagraph display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HE1C112B2BB284A788000B5922E8B4054"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), the number determined under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year may not exceed the number of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-referred refugees who were resettled in a country other than the United States (excluding any internally resettled person) in the second preceding calendar year.</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="HDB633A301B1F43A2B5DFBE670594D901"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The number determined under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year may exceed the limit specified in subparagraph (A) by the number of refugees admitted pursuant to section 599D(b)(3) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1157">8 U.S.C. 1157</external-xref> note).</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph indent="up1" id="H6C60822E06A24DEAA8A0303EBAB6065"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The number determined under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year may exceed the limit specified in subparagraph (A) if the Congress enacts a law providing for a higher number.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HE13E87B650554163AFE4C7CA7F5B3D00"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Emergency refugee situations</header><text>Section 207(b) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1157">8 U.S.C. 1157(b)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>the President may fix</quote> and inserting <quote>the President may, if the Congress enacts a law providing such authority, fix</quote>.</text></subsection>
<subsection id="HA22957AD3D5F4F608551516287A6FE58"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H452D3907EF1F46458F26CB5971F41066"><enum>825.</enum><header>Aliens subject to direct numerical limitations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 201(b)(1) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1151">8 U.S.C. 1151(b)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H715ABA61A7DF4CDAAE49B956D150129F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H410D869DC2E74EF79270050545478600"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HE716B8F2D0264B45B6B866DBDFD29DF1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Aliens who are admitted under section 207.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="HB301F023B134400FAA9151C0CDC70128"><enum>826.</enum><header>Education of family-sponsored immigrants</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 203(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1153">8 U.S.C. 1153(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HDAD3C7DD745A446A00B5DD100C1AD26"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>An adult alien other than a derivative spouse is not eligible for a visa under this subsection unless the alien has attained at least a high school education or its equivalent.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="HEB92A8195B8B489B8B1CD2B725AF0548"><enum>827.</enum><header>Sponsorship levels</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 213A(f)(1)(E) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1183a">8 U.S.C. 1183a(f)(1)(E)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>125 percent of the Federal poverty line</quote> and inserting <quote>200 percent of the poverty line</quote>.</text></section>
<section id="H16D1EE2CE9054434806800282F51129B"><enum>828.</enum><header>Repeal of section 245(i)</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 245(i) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(i)</external-xref>) is repealed.</text></section></subtitle>
<enum>IX</enum><header>Miscellaneous provisions</header>
<section id="H154E5194A4954D5E8E538C3399243925"><enum>901.</enum><header>Temporary protected status</header>
<subsection id="H45F5B211F06A4493AB49DB2E00BDAFF3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 244 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1254a">8 U.S.C. 1254a</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H843CEBB4B0FF49069B8CC8517DDDA044"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H030905FC5A744AB10035238500E5B700"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (3)(D);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H849ECDF2B3C540D79858D0604EC7EA64"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)—</text>
<clause id="H5DF5CC046E604DEBBC34BA3685BFD3F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B);</text></clause>
<clause id="HE2C1EBB787D24B748CB0A4286161E718"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by moving the text of subparagraph (A) up and to the right so that it follows immediately after the paragraph heading; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H865E05D976F44514A2D1E62DC2261324"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(A)</quote>; and</text></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H88E23F432F1948679EED8579EC60DB7E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking <quote>to deny temporary protected status to an alien based on the alien’s immigration status or</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H2C5B8C200ADF4139A70000D8A852E0E1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H675E2709CC8140EE8393E1250076356D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="H1CAA8F0F491645F993158754E811809"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by adding <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></clause>
<clause id="H544EFC700582443A8779D5693E902EDA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<subclause id="H9DAA98821FB945C3B5F328DB69DA489"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>disruption of living conditions</quote> and inserting <quote>physical destruction of homes and businesses</quote>;</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H9D742ADF30EE4285BCACBD71282FF1A4"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by amending clause (ii) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H74348B3C1B084679932141EC13EB1CDD">
<clause id="H0D5B7AEB4D1D417D97D6A50838765394"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the foreign state is unable, temporarily, to house and employ the aliens who are nationals of the state residing in the United States, but has officially requested designation and submitted to the Secretary of State a specific plan to repatriate such nationals in a short and specified period of time; and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause>
<subclause id="H6875F91B51484DF6A670B400ACB386B4"><enum>(III)</enum><text>in clause (iii), by striking <quote>; or</quote> and inserting a period;</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="H0A8C1ECC23C74ED48CCB475BD73CD317"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (C); and</text></clause>
<clause id="H9B4F87F926C9427B830633AE33291137"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HDE851F0FFA7A4DFB8C1BF7F45389E97"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An initial designation, or extension of a designation, of a foreign state (or part of such foreign state) under this paragraph shall not become effective if the Secretary of Homeland Security finds that permitting the aliens to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to the national interest of the United States.</text><after-quoted-block></after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HEDF978B7CC6F455A8F00023FE2BD1588"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the last sentence of paragraph (2), by striking <quote>18 months</quote> and inserting <quote>12 months</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H3B1390ABFDD4405898276E334D3244B8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="H2F528D1CFB0A4E69B629A7E461CCB0F3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by inserting <quote>all</quote> after <quote>and shall determine whether</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H3273E080E8A241CDA2DB4FAD0300CBF0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by inserting <quote>all</quote> after <quote>no longer continues to meet</quote>; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H6350C5FB18124A37ADAC2740F73EAC5B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB2E5E12E58E8442E8D199016126B6DA7">
<subparagraph id="HB33D7782803E4AAF0032008EC3171490"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Extension of designation</header><text>If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines under subparagraph (A) that a foreign state (or part of such foreign state) continues to meet all the conditions for designation under paragraph (1) and that the foreign state warrants an extension, the period of designation of the foreign State is extended for an additional period of 6 months (or, in the discretion of the Secretary, a period of 12 months).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H9FB4832A4212496AB6A214E83C9F008E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)—</text>
<clause id="H292DBE0C1EF848079935DECC9545C986"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B);</text></clause>
<clause id="H608239B0E3CA4EE6A1517DDD805E1C86"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by moving the text of subparagraph (A) up and to the right so that it follows immediately after the paragraph heading; and</text></clause>
<clause id="H402D7D793F774E9B862938F12E3E3E18"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>(A) Designations.—</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H313F188FE702431EBB6390EA95BFCD70"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8F13F008E989443582459C44DCA6A9D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B), by striking <quote>The amount of any such fee shall not exceed $50.</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HB50AFE362F374DF58FB7DD5FD76F9D4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text>
<clause id="HD576C81886EE45AAB3AC0037DB6465B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>of paragraph (1)—</quote> and all that follows through the end and inserting the following: <quote>, the provisions of section 212(a)(1) may be waived in the Secretary of Homeland Security’s discretion if a denial of temporary protected status would separate the alien from a spouse or child in the United States.</quote>;</text></clause>
<clause id="H5B70B748E3524439A9F149ED46D5AEFF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text>
<subclause id="HCE9310855E024E0A9FA438700D02092"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by amending clause (i) to read as follows:</text>
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<clause id="H13CC4EE3A11E49658C9861A4E5213065"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien is inadmissible under section 212(a) by reason of having been convicted of a crime committed in the United States, or the alien is deportable under section 237(a) (other than under section 237(a)(1)(B));</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause>
<subclause id="H44803899A999436B8DBC88AE24592538"><enum>(II)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="HC8570676A5AA4F7BA611953EDEA5ABA6"><enum>(III)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<clause id="H22B3AB6DB57D4382BCB876670025C859"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the alien was unlawfully present in the United States on the effective date of the designation of the applicable foreign state (or part of a state), or the effective date of any extension of such designation, unless a law to the contrary is enacted before such date, except that if the Congress is adjourned sine die on such date, the alien may be granted temporary protected status for a period of not more than 4 months.</text></clause><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HC679EF1532AC4E339378D3AABDB35F9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text>
<clause id="H548F334DB3344F5DA2FD06DAFCCDDB2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>, or</quote> at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting a semicolon;</text></clause>
<clause id="H30374E74F0B240668BA99CF1FBC56164"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C)—</text>
<subclause id="H7FC5C0E86D8E4A4B9B5701CCD6B568EF"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and record the alien’s current address</quote> after <quote>register</quote>; and</text></subclause>
<subclause id="H9D0F87A9C18E471F8EFB22D17FCF217"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text></subclause></clause>
<clause id="HE09ED38722FE4F43A5DE87D7F8084DC2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HA3A04A8233D64AAAB51D155916B4FA70"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the alien commits a crime after being granted temporary protected status; or</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H4F6EA702FA8E4CFB9605D5CB37C2BE61"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the alien travels, no matter how briefly, to the foreign state (or part of such state) the designation of which was the basis of the alien being granted such status.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H443D86898CCF4843A30248CEF378C5D2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), in each of subparagraphs (A) and (B), by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, unless the alien travels, no matter how briefly, to the foreign state (or part of such state) the designation of which was the basis of the alien being granted such status</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H91E9E0D559514E5682644EA184ED88EC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (6);</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H7C53FB166A9848398429845C7679C54F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (4);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H9BF9EFC7F02947DE9BABCE5370F5FC61"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by striking <quote>, unless the Attorney General determines that extreme hardship exists</quote> in the first sentence;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H4D98C56566C54963A2356BB855603925"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (f)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF3F58AAF49E64304ADDD28FBAEBCF009"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (2);</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H92FF590E73974BFE9E002FE814EADD06"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>Attorney General; and</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security, except to the foreign state (or part of such state) the designation of which was the basis of the alien being granted such status.</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H40FEB14511454DD7A1906D0070516BC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H51514580283445DD89A994E074E3502"><enum>(7)</enum><text>in subsection (h)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H360C734A50B34990BDABAA32A658C95F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>or the House of Representatives</quote> after <quote>Senate</quote>;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H8E26B8B02CA349BF8BD9C92E12EFED5C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>three-fifths</quote> and inserting <quote>two-thirds</quote>; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HBE8D4493E92943A1AB2620919C9E9FE3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>and the House of Representatives</quote> after <quote>Senate</quote> each place such term appears in paragraphs (2) and (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H9F9841EA140B43EC9CF57DD3E26CED6D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Ineligibility of certain aliens</header>
<paragraph id="HAA44408E70654DF0ABEE00C6CF54C4D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of a foreign state (or part of a foreign state) initially designated under section 244 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1254a">8 U.S.C. 1254a</external-xref>), or having such a designation extended, before the date of the enactment of this Act, an alien who is a national of such state (or in the case of an alien having no nationality, is a person who last habitually resided in such state), and was unlawfully present in the United States on the date of such designation or extension, shall be subject to paragraph (2).</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H80EDBF5104BC4028A619D08FF7461454"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Aliens ineligible</header><text>An alien described in paragraph (1) shall not be considered eligible for temporary protected status under section 244 pursuant to any initial or succeeding extension of a designation described in such paragraph that takes effect after the date of the enactment of this Act, unless a law to the contrary is enacted before such effective date, except that if the Congress is adjourned sine die on such effective date, the alien may be granted temporary protected status for a period of not more than 4 months.</text></paragraph></subsection></section>
<section id="H885EEECBE6B64386B8CB4FCA7D988ED2"><enum>902.</enum><header>Good moral character</header>
<subsection id="HDCD2BBA13F9841BF9EDBAB3FA44D5E75"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 101(f)(6) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101(f)(6)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text>
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<paragraph id="HDF879500F36E48E8B925F9C312C2D9B"><enum>(6)</enum><text>one who, by fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact, seeks to procure (or has sought to procure or has procured) a visa, other documentation, or admission into the United States or other benefit provided under this Act, for himself, herself, or any other alien;</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HECFF8AD86683461E8BF6D7BF7E175049"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to misrepresentations made on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H1A0C9825FC4046B483EA40D1DD52B4C8"><enum>903.</enum><header>Removal for aliens who make misrepresentations to procure benefits</header>
<subsection id="HC061E36EE4164BBDAEE705FA34047AC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 237(a)(3) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1127">8 U.S.C. 1127(a)(3)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H8C1121FF3C184A77AE6BB4A71590DF6B"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Misrepresentation</header><text>Any alien who, by fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact, seeks to procure (or has sought to procure or has procured) a visa, other documentation, or admission into the United States or other benefit provided under this Act, for himself, herself, or any other alien, is deportable.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H692785B081D94A8FB0B852FC47ECD7E5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to misrepresentations made on or after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H592C489FB0A748949F59D60006F28B32"><enum>904.</enum><header>Designations of foreign terrorist organizations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 219 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1189">8 U.S.C. 1189</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7C6B168EC4CA4119AF4C1FA0003C00DE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Secretary</quote> each place such term appears, excluding subsection (a)(2)(C), and inserting <quote>official specified under subsection (d)</quote>;</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="HA1C719C33DAF4D6FBD32BFE25CBF009C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF67237D2D1394E27BB5963C729C73793"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by adding <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="HADAB3862BDAB449B8DF185D619A351E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>; and</quote> at the end and inserting a period; and</text></subparagraph>
<subparagraph id="H62024C53ECD14B93A34EC7AAC96B9352"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H61FB3116AA7D4EACBA752E059FB23743"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H8CF6960FF26842278294182F2D96EA30"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Implementation of duties and authorities</header><text>The duties under this section shall, and authorities under this section may, be exercised by the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of Homeland Security.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section>
<section id="H002761C0A045442F90E2308FF4B302B"><enum>905.</enum><header>Foreign students</header>
<subsection id="HEA81E33B3885446D929CA1ED1F53C465"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Length of visa term</header><text>Section 221(c) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1201">8 U.S.C. 1201(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8B13E05EB85C4BC8BF4D30A74EBF647C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>A nonimmigrant visa</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as otherwise provided by law, a nonimmigrant visa</quote>; and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H020BFB83485B4AE99EACE11BFDB1182F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HEA29ADA8C95E486BB06F3F716E00EB2E"><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the case of a nonimmigrant visa issued under subparagraph (F), (J), or (M) of section 101(a)(15) for study in the United States, the visa shall not be valid for any period in excess of the stated period that the institution or place of study to which the visa relates determines is necessary and proper for the purpose of achieving the objective of such study. Such determinations shall be timely submitted, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of Homeland Security may prescribe, as a condition of the granting of authority to issue documents demonstrating aliens’ eligibility for a visa under subparagraph (F), (J), or (M) of section 101(a)(15).</text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H872AF9C3B32149068ED4E4DF9FC63338"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Eligible institution</header><text>Section 214 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1184">8 U.S.C. 1184</external-xref>), as amended by section 204 of this Act, is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H4DC5C465B7FB48C5AD76FB9281776487"><enum>(w)</enum><text>A nonimmigrant visa may not be issued under subparagraph (F), (J), or (M) of section 101(a)(15) for postsecondary study at an educational institution unless that institution is an eligible institution for the purpose of a program authorized under title IV of the <act-name parsable-cite="HEA65">Higher Education Act of 1965</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/20/1070">20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H4F60EAD1F4A7483391F58004C664DCD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act. The amendment made by subsection (b) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="HA723C6C9368D4EB792A4784855B2A297"><enum>906.</enum><header>Pay grade GS–15 available for trial attorneys</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be to establish a range for the annual rate of basic pay for positions as a trial attorney in the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services between the minimum annual rate of basic pay payable for grade GS–11 of the General Schedule and the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for grade GS–15 of the General Schedule.</text></section>
<section id="H97CB66D48F904198B44E22F3619BC2CA"><enum>907.</enum><header>Proof of identity of aliens seeking relief</header>
<subsection id="HC836DB7B6F144705B01B83CCC42315C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Asylum</header><text>Section 208(b)(2) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1158">8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(2)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H962D9AA89626464593A61CA6BE7EE07E"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Proof of identity</header><text>No alien may be granted asylum until the alien proves the alien’s true identity by clear and convincing evidence.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HE55D3FFCBC13467FB7D6898BDCD4A868"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Adjustment of status of refugees</header><text>Section 209 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1159">8 U.S.C. 1159</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H536664F8063A443BA4B53F8FB5C8F5B5"><enum>(d)</enum><text>No alien may have the alien’s status adjusted under this section until the alien proves the alien’s true identity by clear and convincing evidence.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="HAF2220F744C94B4092E8D2B31CC840E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Cancellation of Removal</header><text>Section 240A (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1229b">8 U.S.C. 1229b</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="H6EEFCA3F76C14BF5BE7DDE9916970013"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Proof of identity</header><text>No alien may receive relief under this section until the alien proves the alien’s true identity by clear and convincing evidence.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection>
<subsection id="H9967E3439E31482DB7085400481E7052"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Adjustment of status of nonimmigrants</header><text>Section 245 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H087CDBAEA7AA46CC878D00C1B2648BAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating the subsection (l) added by section 1513(f) of <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/106/386">Public Law 106–386</external-xref> (114 Stat. 1536) as subsection (m); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H50DD7FEEEBB246839CEB2B45FF128BE5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HA16EBF6D49F245E3B1AD72A3DFC16EFB"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Proof of identity</header><text>No alien may have the alien’s status adjusted under this section until the alien proves the alien’s true identity by clear and convincing evidence.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection>
<subsection id="H0F61CF7B8063415BA14EAED8B78E5652"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to relief provided on and after such date.</text></subsection></section>
<section id="H152D4CC37FEA49909ED4958846A3F88"><enum>908.</enum><header>Following to join defined</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 101(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1101">8 U.S.C. 1101</external-xref>), as amended by section 421, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph indent="up1" id="H9A3036EF4A614F4D8056336B45EF3068"><enum>(52)</enum><text>The term <term>following to join</term> when used with respect to a spouse or child of an alien, means that the spouse or child departs for the United States, in order to reside with the alien, during the 1-year period beginning on the date on which the alien is admitted into the United States.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section>
<section id="H49090D73301743788E3C007184078DCD"><enum>909.</enum><header>Information on foreign crimes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 245(a) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1255">8 U.S.C. 1255(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF9A650D982DE41B8807EEBA700ED00C9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (2);</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H228FA601DA0741D5B98E4EC41500B976"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and</text></paragraph>
<paragraph id="H1341D8E7FDA343DCAD56E41835F44DA2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: <quote>(3) the Secretary of Homeland Security has thoroughly examined the alien’s countries of prior residence to determine that the alien has not committed a crime in those countries making the alien inadmissible, and</quote>.</text></paragraph></section>