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[CITE: 8USC1156]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                        Part I--Selection System
 
Sec. 1156. Unused immigrant visas

    If an immigrant having an immigrant visa is denied admission to the 
United States and removed, or does not apply for admission before the 
expiration of the validity of his visa, or if an alien having an 
immigrant visa issued to him as a preference immigrant is found not to 
be a preference immigrant, an immigrant visa or a preference immigrant 
visa, as the case may be, may be issued in lieu thereof to another 
qualified alien.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 1, Sec. 206, 66 Stat. 181; Pub. 
L. 89-236, Sec. 6, Oct. 3, 1965, 79 Stat. 916; Pub. L. 104-208, div. C, 
title III, Sec. 308(d)(4)(D), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-618.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-208 substituted ``denied admission to the United 
States and removed'' for ``excluded from admission to the United States 
and deported''.
    1965--Pub. L. 89-236 substituted provisions allowing immigrant visas 
or preference immigrant visas to be issued to another qualified alien in 
lieu of immigrants excluded or deported, immigrants failing to apply for 
admission, or immigrants found not to be preference immigrants, for 
provisions relating to revocation of approval of petitions which, with 
minor amendments, were transferred to section 1155 of this title.


                    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 this title.


                    Effective Date of 1965 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by Pub. L. 89-236, see section 20 of 
Pub. L. 89-236, set out as a note under section 1151 of this title.
