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<bill bill-stage="Introduced-in-Senate" public-private="public">
	<form>
		<distribution-code display="yes">VI</distribution-code>
		<congress>110th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session>1st Session</session>
		<legis-num>S. 984</legis-num>
		<current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber>
		<action>
			<action-date date="20070326">March 26, 2007</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S258">Ms. Landrieu</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 Jiao Ying
		  Li.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body>
		<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID1E50826672ED463EB10A528F3AECB980" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Permanent resident
			 status</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
			 other provision of law, for purposes 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</external-xref> et
			 seq.), Jiao Ying Li shall be 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.</text>
		</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ID934A44A076DC4F08826F4E056CEDE664" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2.</enum><header>Reduction of number of
			 available visas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Upon the
			 granting of permanent resident status to Jiao Ying Li, as provided in section
			 1, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper officer to reduce by 1
			 during the current or next following fiscal year the total number of immigrant
			 visas available to natives of the country of the birth of Jiao Ying Li under
			 <external-xref legal-doc="act" parsable-cite="INA/203(a)">section
			 202(a)(2)</external-xref> of the <act-name parsable-cite="INA">Immigration and
			 Nationality Act</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/8/1153(a)">8 U.S.C. 1152(a)(2)</external-xref>).</text>
		</section></legis-body>
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