46 U.S.C. § 8704 — Alien deemed to be employed in the United States
submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 100-239 to r/title-46-SHIPPING · 103 words · no verdicts yet
This section treats certain unlicensed fishing-vessel workers as employed in the United States for a specified immigration-law provision.
For section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act, an alien is treated as employed in the United States if the alien is an unlicensed worker on a fishing, fish-processing, or fish-tender vessel* that (1) is a U.S. vessel fishing in U.S. navigable waters or the exclusive economic zone*, and (2) does not fish exclusively for highly migratory species, a term defined in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
An alien is deemed to be employed in the United States for purposes of section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a) if the alien is an unlicensed individual employed on a fishing, fish processing, or fish tender vessel* that—
is a vessel of the United States* engaged in the fisheries* in the navigable waters of the United States or the exclusive economic zone*; and
is not engaged in fishing exclusively for highly migratory species (as that term is defined in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802).
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 100–239, § 5(f)(1), Jan. 11, 1988, 101 Stat. 1781; amended Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(a) [title II, § 211(b)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009, 3009–41.)
- 1988Enacted · Pub. L. 100-239 · 101 Stat. 1781
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-208 · 110 Stat. 3009, 3009
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 100-239 on 1988-01-11.
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