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[CITE: 8USC1225a]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
 Part IV--Inspection, Apprehension, Examination, Exclusion, and Removal
 
Sec. 1225a. Preinspection at foreign airports


(a) Establishment of preinspection stations

                          (1) New stations

        Subject to paragraph (5), not later than October 31, 1998, the 
    Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 
    establish and maintain preinspection stations in at least 5 of the 
    foreign airports that are among the 10 foreign airports which the 
    Attorney General identifies as serving as last points of departure 
    for the greatest numbers of inadmissible alien passengers who arrive 
    from abroad by air at ports of entry within the United States. Such 
    preinspection stations shall be in addition to any preinspection 
    stations established prior to September 30, 1996.

                             (2) Report

        Not later than October 31, 1998, the Attorney General shall 
    report to the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of 
    Representatives and of the Senate on the implementation of paragraph 
    (1).

                         (3) Data collection

        Not later than November 1, 1997, and each subsequent November 1, 
    the Attorney General shall compile data identifying--
            (A) the foreign airports which served as last points of 
        departure for aliens who arrived by air at United States ports 
        of entry without valid documentation during the preceding fiscal 
        years;
            (B) the number and nationality of such aliens arriving from 
        each such foreign airport; and
            (C) the primary routes such aliens followed from their 
        country of origin to the United States.

                       (4) Additional stations

        Subject to paragraph (5), not later than October 31, 2000, the 
    Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 
    establish preinspection stations in at least 5 additional foreign 
    airports which the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
    Secretary of State, determines, based on the data compiled under 
    paragraph (3) and such other information as may be available, would 
    most effectively reduce the number of aliens who arrive from abroad 
    by air at points of entry within the United States who are 
    inadmissible to the United States. Such preinspection stations shall 
    be in addition to those established prior to September 30, 1996, or 
    pursuant to paragraph (1).

                           (5) Conditions

        Prior to the establishment of a preinspection station, the 
    Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 
    ensure that--
            (A) employees of the United States stationed at the 
        preinspection station and their accompanying family members will 
        receive appropriate protection;
            (B) such employees and their families will not be subject to 
        unreasonable risks to their welfare and safety; and
            (C) the country in which the preinspection station is to be 
        established maintains practices and procedures with respect to 
        asylum seekers and refugees in accordance with the Convention 
        Relating to the Status of Refugees (done at Geneva, July 28, 
        1951), or the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees (done 
        at New York, January 31, 1967), or that an alien in the country 
        otherwise has recourse to avenues of protection from return to 
        persecution.

(b) Establishment of carrier consultant program

    The Attorney General shall assign additional immigration officers to 
assist air carriers in the detection of fraudulent documents at foreign 
airports which, based on the records maintained pursuant to subsection 
(a)(3) of this section, served as a point of departure for a significant 
number of arrivals at United States ports of entry without valid 
documentation, but where no preinspection station exists.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 4, Sec. 235A, as added Pub. L. 
104-208, div. C, title I, Sec. 123(a), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009-
560.)

                          Codification

    September 30, 1996, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), (4), was in the 
original ``the date of the enactment of such Act'', which was translated 
as meaning the date of enactment of Pub. L. 104-208, which enacted this 
section, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
