§ 1156. Unused immigrant visas

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1952

   Pub. L. 82–477 · 66 Stat. 609

   Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1156

   June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 1, § 206, 66 Stat. 181

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 1, § 206, 66 Stat. 181

2. 1965

   Pub. L. 89–236 § 6 · 79 Stat. 911

   Substituted · 8 U.S.C. § 1156

   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

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   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.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. Section 206 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 181; 8 U.S.C. 1156) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 206. If an immigrant, having an immigrant visa is excluded from admission to the United States and deported, 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.”

3. 1996

   Department of Education Appropriations Act, 1997

   Pub. L. 104–208 div. C title III § 308(d)(4)(D) · 110 Stat. 3009

   Substituted · 8 U.S.C. § 1156

   Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “denied admission to the United States and removed” for “excluded from admission to the United States and deported”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “denied admission to the United States and removed” for “excluded from admission to the United States and deported”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 308. None of the funds in this Act may be used to plan, prepare, or offer for sale timber from trees classified as giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) which are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands in a manner different than such sales were conducted in fiscal year 1995.

   Effective date note
   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.

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