[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 3 (Monday, January 19, 2004)]
[Pages 61-62]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7750--To Suspend Entry as Immigrants or Nonimmigrants of 
Persons Engaged In or Benefiting From Corruption

January 12, 2004

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In light of the importance of legitimate and transparent public 
institutions to world stability, peace, and development, and the serious 
negative effects that corruption of public institutions has on the 
United States efforts to promote security and to strengthen democratic 
institutions and free market systems, and in light of the importance to 
the United States and the international community of fighting 
corruption, as evidenced by the Third Global Forum on Fighting 
Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity and other intergovernmental 
efforts, I have determined that it is in the interests of the United 
States to take action to restrict the international travel and to 
suspend the entry into the United States, as immigrants or 
nonimmigrants, of certain persons who have committed, participated in, 
or are beneficiaries of corruption in the performance of public 
functions where that corruption has serious adverse effects on 
international activity of U.S. businesses, U.S. foreign assistance 
goals, the security of the United States against transnational crime and 
terrorism, or the stability of democratic institutions and nations.

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    Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of 
America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws 
of the United States, including section 212(f) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), and section 301 of title 3, 
United States Code, hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and 
nonimmigrant entry into the United States of persons described in 
section 1 of this proclamation would, except as provided in sections 2 
and 3 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the interests of the 
United States.
    I therefore hereby proclaim that:
    Section 1. The entry into the United States, as immigrants or 
nonimmigrants, of the following persons is hereby suspended:
    (a) Public officials or former public officials whose solicitation 
or acceptance of any article of monetary value, or other benefit, in 
exchange for any act or omission in the performance of their public 
functions has or had serious adverse effects on the national interests 
of the United States.
    (b) Persons whose provision of or offer to provide any article of 
monetary value or other benefit to any public official in exchange for 
any act or omission in the performance of such official's public 
functions has or had serious adverse effects on the national interests 
of the United States.
    (c) Public officials or former public officials whose 
misappropriation of public funds or interference with the judicial, 
electoral, or other public processes has or had serious adverse effects 
on the national interests of the United States.
    (d) The spouses, children, and dependent household members of 
persons described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) above, who are 
beneficiaries of any articles of monetary value or other benefits 
obtained by such persons.
    Sec. 2. Section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply with respect 
to any person otherwise covered by section 1 where entry of the person 
into the United States would not be contrary to the interests of the 
United States.
    Sec. 3. Persons covered by sections 1 and 2 of this proclamation 
shall be identified by the Secretary of State or the Secretary's 
designee, in his or her sole discretion, pursuant to such standards and 
procedures as the Secretary may establish.
    Sec. 4. For purposes of this proclamation, ``serious adverse effects 
on the national interests of the United States'' means serious adverse 
effects on the international economic activity of U.S. businesses, U.S. 
foreign assistance goals, the security of the United States against 
transnational crime and terrorism, or the stability of democratic 
institutions and nations.
    Sec. 5. Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to derogate 
from United States Government obligations under applicable international 
agreements.
    Sec. 6. The Secretary of State shall have responsibility for 
implementing this proclamation pursuant to such procedures as the 
Secretary may, in the Secretary's discretion, establish.
    Sec. 7. This proclamation is effective immediately.
    Sec. 8. This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create 
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or 
in equity by any party, against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, or other entities, its officers or employees, or any other 
person.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of 
January, in the year of our Lord two thousand four, and of the 
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
eighth.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:09 a.m., January 13, 
2004]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on January 
14.