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[CITE: 50USC403h]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 403h. Admission of essential aliens; limitation on number

    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.

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

                       References in Text

    The immigration laws, referred to in text, are classified generally 
to Title 8, Aliens and Nationality. See also section 1101(a)(17) of 
Title 8.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Central Intelligence Agency Act 
of 1949, and not as part of the National Security Act of 1947 which 
comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-208 substituted ``that the admission'' for ``that 
the entry'', ``shall be admitted to'' for ``shall be given entry into'', 
and ``families admitted to'' for ``families entering''.

                         Change of Name

    Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 14, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under 
section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, 
consolidated Bureaus of Immigration and Naturalization of Department of 
Labor to form an Immigration and Naturalization Service in Department of 
Labor, to be administered by a Commissioner of Immigration and 
Naturalization, which was then transferred from Department of Labor to 
Department of Justice by Reorg. Plan No. V of 1940, eff. June 14, 1940, 
5 F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. 
Accordingly, ``Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization'' was 
substituted for ``Commissioner of Immigration''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-208 effective, with certain transitional 
provisions, on the first day of the first month beginning more than 180 
days after Sept. 30, 1996, see section 309 of Pub. L. 104-208, set out 
as a note under section 1101 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all other officers of Department of Justice and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few 
exceptions, transferred to Attorney General, with power vested in him to 
authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions by 
any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 
1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 403a, 403e, 403f of this 
title.
