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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 108 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To make members of the Chinese Communist Party and their family members |
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| 6 | 6 | | ineligible for F or J visas, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY16, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. S |
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| 10 | 10 | | CHMITTintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To make members of the Chinese Communist Party and |
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| 14 | 14 | | their family members ineligible for F or J visas, and |
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| 15 | 15 | | for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Higher 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Education from the Chinese Communist Party Act of 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | 2025’’. 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN VISAS OF MEMBERS 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) G |
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| 25 | 25 | | ROUNDS FOREXCLUSION.—An alien may not 9 |
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| 26 | 26 | | be accorded status or receive a visa under subparagraph 10 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 108 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | (F) or (J) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) if the alien is a 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | person who is, as of the date of enactment of this Act 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | or at any time thereafter— 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) any member of the Chinese Communist 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Party, including such a member who has served on 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | the National Congress of the Chinese Communist 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | Party; or 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) a family member of a person described in 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | paragraph (1). 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (b) F |
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| 41 | 41 | | AMILYMEMBER.—For purposes of this section, 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | the term ‘‘family member’’ means, with respect to a per-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | son, that person’s spouse, child, parent, sibling, grand-13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | child, niece, or nephew. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (c) E |
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| 46 | 46 | | XCEPTIONTOCOMPLYWITHUNITEDNATIONS 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | H |
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| 48 | 48 | | EADQUARTERS AGREEMENT.—Subsection (a) shall not 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | apply to an individual if admitting the individual to the 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | United States is necessary to permit the United States 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | to comply with the Agreement between the United Nations 19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | and the United States of America regarding the Head-20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | quarters of the United Nations, signed June 26, 1947, 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | and entered into force November 21, 1947, and other ap-22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | plicable international obligations. 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (d) N |
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| 57 | 57 | | ATIONALSECURITYWAIVER.—The President, 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | or a designee of the President, may waive the application 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | •S 108 IS |
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| 62 | 62 | | of subsection (a) if the President or such designee certifies 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | in writing to the appropriate congressional committees 2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | that such waiver is in the national security interest of the 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | United States. 4 |
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