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	<form display="yes">

		<distribution-code display="yes">II </distribution-code>

		<congress display="yes">109th CONGRESS</congress>

		<session display="yes">1st Session</session>

		<legis-num>S. 81</legis-num>

		<current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>

		<action display="yes">

			<action-date date="20050124">January 24, 2005</action-date>

			<action-desc blank-lines-after="0" display="yes">

				<sponsor by-request="no" name-id="S215">Mr. Craig</sponsor> introduced the

			 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the

			 <committee-name committee-id="SSJU00">Committee on the

			 Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc>

		</action>

		<legis-type>A BILL</legis-type>

		<official-title display="yes">For the relief of Benjamin M.

		  Banfro.</official-title>

	</form>

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		<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="S1" section-type="section-one">

			<enum>1.</enum>

			<header>Permanent residence</header>

			<text display-inline="no-display-inline">In the administration of the

			 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), Benjamin M. Banfro

			 shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United

			 States for permanent residence as of the date of the enactment of this Act upon

			 payment of the required visa fees.<short-title></short-title></text>

		</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5A88961095984BBAAF7C8C58302FC601"><enum>2.</enum><header>Reduction of

			 number of available visas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Upon

			 the granting of permanent residence to Benjamin M. Banfro as provided in this

			 Act, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper officer to reduce by one

			 number during the current fiscal year the total number of immigrant visas

			 available to natives of the country of the alien's birth under subsection (a)

			 of section 203 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153).</text>

		</section></legis-body>

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