Volume 68 · 1146
Public Law 83–770
To provide relief for the sheep-raising industry by making special nonquota immigrant visas available to certain skilled alien sheepherders.
Approved September 3, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide relief for the sheep-raising industry by making special nonquota immigrant visas available to certain skilled alien sheepherders.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, for a period of one year after the effective date of this Act, in any case in which the Attorney General, under the authority of section 204 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, grants permission for the importation of a
skilled alien sheepherder into the United States and the investigation of the application for such importation discloses that—
the employment offered such skilled alien sheepherder is permanent; and
no immigration quota number of the quota to which such skilled alien sheepherder is chargeable under section 202 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act is then available, a special nonquota immigrant visa may be issued to such skilled alien sheepherder as provided in this Act: Provided, That such skilled alien sheepherder is otherwise eligible to receive an immigrant visa under the immigration laws.
Sec. 2.
The Attorney General shall certify to the Secretary of State the name and address of every skilled alien sheepherder for which an application for importation under section 204 has been approved
. If a quota number is not then available for such skilled alien sheepherder, the proper consular officer may issue a special nonquota immigrant visa to such skilled alien sheepherder.
Sec. 3.
There shall not be issued more than three hundred and
Limitation.
eighty-five special nonquota immigrant visas under this Act.
Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as increasing the immigration quota of any country or of altering the requirements for admission of aliens into the United States.
Sec. 4.
Any alien who is excludable because of the conviction of a
Petty offense convictions.
misdemeanor classifiable as a petty offense under the provisions of section 1 (3) of title 18, United States Code, by reason of the punishment
actually imposed, or who is excludable as one who admits the commission of such misdemeanor, may hereafter he granted a visa and admitted to the United States, if otherwise admissible: Provided, That the alien has committed only one such offense.
Approved September 3, 1954.