8 U.S.C. § 1182f — Denial of entry into United States of Chinese and other nationals engaged in coerced organ or bodily tissue transplantation

(a) Denial of entry. Regardless of any other law, and except as subsection (b) provides, the Secretary must direct consular officers not to issue a visa to a person whom the Secretary finds, based on credible and specific information, to have been directly involved in coercive transplantation of human organs or bodily tissue. This prohibition does not apply if the Secretary has substantial grounds to believe that the foreign national has stopped being involved in and supporting those practices.

This section uses the terms “consular officers,” “credible and specific information,” “coercive transplantation,” and “substantial grounds.” This section does not define those terms.

(b) Exception. The prohibitions in subsection (a) do not apply to an applicant who is a head of state^*, head of government, or cabinet-level minister.

(c) Waiver. The Secretary may waive the prohibitions in subsection (a) for a foreign national if the Secretary—

(1) decides that the waiver is important to the national interest of the United States; and

(2) within 30 days after issuing a visa, gives the appropriate congressional committees written notice that explains why the waiver was granted.