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[CITE: 8USC1571]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
           CHAPTER 13--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
 
Sec. 1571. Purposes


(a) Purposes

    The purposes of this subchapter are to--
        (1) provide the Immigration and Naturalization Service with the 
    mechanisms it needs to eliminate the current backlog in the 
    processing of immigration benefit applications within 1 year after 
    October 17, 2000, and to maintain the elimination of the backlog in 
    future years; and
        (2) provide for regular congressional oversight of the 
    performance of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 
    eliminating the backlog and processing delays in immigration 
    benefits adjudications.

(b) Policy

    It is the sense of Congress that the processing of an immigration 
benefit application should be completed not later than 180 days after 
the initial filing of the application, except that a petition for a 
nonimmigrant visa under section 1184(c) of this title should be 
processed not later than 30 days after the filing of the petition.

(Pub. L. 106-313, title II, Sec. 202, Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1262.)


                               Short Title

    For short title of title II of Pub. L. 106-313, which enacted this 
subchapter, as the ``Immigration Services and Infrastructure 
Improvements Act of 2000'', see section 201 of Pub. L. 106-313, set out 
as a Short Title of 2000 Amendment note under section 1551 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1574 of this title.
