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[CITE: 8USC1182e]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
Part II--Admission Qualifications for Aliens; Travel Control of Citizens 
                               and Aliens
 
Sec. 1182e. Denial of entry into United States of foreign 
        nationals engaged in establishment or enforcement of forced 
        abortion or sterilization policy
        

(a) Denial of entry

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of State 
may not issue any visa to, and the Attorney General may not admit to the 
United States, any foreign national whom the Secretary finds, based on 
credible and specific information, to have been directly involved in the 
establishment or enforcement of population control policies forcing a 
woman to undergo an abortion against her free choice or forcing a man or 
woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free choice, unless 
the Secretary has substantial grounds for believing that the foreign 
national has discontinued his or her involvement with, and support for, 
such policies.

(b) Exceptions

    The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section shall not apply 
in the case of a foreign national who is a head of state, head of 
government, or cabinet level minister.

(c) Waiver

    The Secretary of State may waive the prohibitions in subsection (a) 
of this section with respect to a foreign national if the Secretary--
        (1) determines that it is important to the national interest of 
    the United States to do so; and
        (2) provides written notification to the appropriate 
    congressional committees containing a justification for the waiver.

(Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title VIII, 
Sec. 801], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-468.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg 
Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001, 
and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises 
this chapter.
