[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 20092]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             RELIEF OF JACQUELINE SALINAS AND HER CHILDREN

  The bill (S. 1513) for the relief of Jacqueline Salinas and her 
children Gabriela Salinas, Alejandro Salinas, and Omar Salinas was 
considered, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third 
time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1513

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

     SECTION 1. PERMANENT RESIDENCE.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of 
     the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), 
     Jacqueline Salinas and her children Gabriela Salinas, 
     Alejandro Salinas, and Omar Salinas, shall be held and 
     considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United 
     States for permanent residence as of the date of enactment of 
     this Act upon payment of the required visa fees.

     SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF NUMBER OF VISAS.

       Upon the granting of permanent residence to Jacqueline 
     Salinas and her children Gabriela Salinas, Alejandro Salinas, 
     and Omar Salinas, as provided in this Act, the Secretary of 
     State shall instruct the proper officer to reduce by the 
     appropriate number during the current fiscal year the total 
     number of immigrant visas available to natives of the country 
     of the aliens' birth under section 203(a) of the Immigration 
     and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(a)).

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