legislation: 99-hr-5559

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99-hr-5559 99 hr 5559 Immigration and Nationality Amendments of 1986 Immigration 1986-09-19 1986-09-29 Failed to Receive 2/3's Vote to Suspend and Pass by Yea-Nay Vote: 81 - 308 (Record Vote No: 421). House Rep. Mazzoli, Romano L. [D-KY-3] KY D M000291 0 (Reported to House from the Committee on the Judiciary with amendment, H. Rept. 99-904) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant special immigrant status to religious functionaries who have been solely employed for the previous two years in a religious occupation by a nonprofit religious organization and who will be so employed in the United States by the same organization or denomination. Requires labor certification. Establishes a ten-year waiting period for admittance into the United States for any alien excludable on grounds of moral turpitude, prostitution, immigration fraud, or conviction of two or more crimes totaling five years or more of imprisonment. 2025-08-29T16:32:55Z  

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