HR 4037
107th Congress
House
Immigration
AIDS (Disease)
Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Aliens
Communicable diseases
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Cuba
Cubans
Department of Justice
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
El Salvador
Families
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Guatemala
Guatemalans
Central American Security Act
Introduced: March 20, 2002
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Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 6, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Mar 21, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E428-429)
Mar 21, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E425)
Mar 20, 2002
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Mar 20, 2002
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Central American Security Act - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, and Honduran nationals; and (2) revise the application filing deadline.
Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act.
Amends the Act to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children.
States that applicants for relief: (1) shall not be granted a waiver from any security or criminal background investigation required by the Act; and (2) shall submit fingerprints to the appropriate Federal agencies.
Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Committees of jurisdiction
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