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50 U.S.C. § 3508 — Admission of essential aliens; limitation on number

submitted 77 years ago by ch. 227 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 127 words · no verdicts yet

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This section permits certain aliens and their immediate families to receive permanent residence when specified officials determine that admission serves national security or the national intelligence mission. No more than 100 people, including family members, may be admitted in one fiscal year under this authority.

Whenever the Director, the Attorney General, and the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization must determine that the admission of a particular alien into the United States for permanent residence is in the interest of national security or essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission, such alien and his immediate family must be admitted to the United States for permanent residence without regard to their inadmissibility under the immigration or any other laws and regulations, or to the failure to comply with such laws and regulations pertaining to admissibility: Provided , That the number of aliens and members of their immediate families admitted to the United States under the authority of this section must in no case exceed one hundred persons in any one fiscal year.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whenever the Director, the Attorney General, and the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization shall determine that the admission of a particular alien into the United States for permanent residence is in the interest of national security or essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission, such alien and his immediate family shall be admitted to the United States for permanent residence without regard to their inadmissibility under the immigration or any other laws and regulations, or to the failure to comply with such laws and regulations pertaining to admissibility: Provided, That the number of aliens and members of their immediate families admitted to the United States under the authority of this section shall in no case exceed one hundred persons in any one fiscal year.

Source credit: (June 20, 1949, ch. 227, § 7, formerly § 8, 63 Stat. 212; renumbered § 7, Pub. L. 85–507, § 21(b)(2), July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 337; Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title III, § 308(f)(6), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–622.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1949Enacted · Act of June 20, 1949, ch. 227 · 63 Stat. 212
  • 1958Amended · Pub. L. 85-507 · 72 Stat. 337
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-208 · 110 Stat. 3009

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 227 on 1949-06-20.

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