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<bill bill-stage="Introduced-in-Senate" bill-type="olc" public-print="no" public-private="public" stage-count="1" star-print="no-star-print">
	<form display="yes">
		<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code>
		<congress display="yes">111th CONGRESS</congress>
		<session display="yes">1st Session</session>
		<legis-num display="yes">S. 393</legis-num>
		<current-chamber display="yes">IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
		  STATES</current-chamber>
		<action display="yes">
			<action-date date="20090206">February 6, 2009</action-date>
			<action-desc><sponsor name-id="S131">Mr. Levin</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 display="yes">A BILL</legis-type>
		<official-title display="yes">For the relief of Sopuruchi
		  Chukwueke.</official-title>
	</form>
	<legis-body display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" style="OLC">
		<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="S1" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Adjustment of status</header>
			<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76B5FD60D9014099B265EA7D2D55CD8D"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
			 for the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et
			 seq.), Sopuruchi Chukwueke shall be deemed to have been lawfully admitted to,
			 and remained in, the United States, and shall be eligible for adjustment of
			 status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under
			 section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255) upon filing
			 an application for such adjustment of status.</text>
			</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2F36A7A03F024B0EBFD3654B00940145"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Application and payment of
			 fees</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) shall
			 apply only if the application for adjustment of status is filed with
			 appropriate fees not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this
			 Act.</text>
			</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE138B0C7A1E943BFAC8340FBB01CFA8F"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reduction of immigrant visa
			 numbers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon the granting of
			 permanent resident status to Sopuruchi Chukwueke, 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 that are made
			 available to natives of the country of the birth of Sopuruchi Chukwueke under
			 section 202(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C.
			 1152(a)(2)).</text>
			</subsection></section></legis-body>
</bill>
