Enhanced
Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001
SUMMARY
AS OF:
11/30/2001--Introduced.
Enhanced
Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2001 - Directs the
Attorney General to waive Immigration and Naturalization Service
(INS) personnel limits. Authorizes appropriations for INS, Border
Patrol, United States Customs Service, and consular personnel,
training, facilities, and security-related technology. Provides
for machine-readable visa fees.
Directs U.S.
law enforcement and intelligence entities to share alien admissibility-
and deportation-related information with INS and the Department
of State.
Directs the
President to develop and implement an interoperable law enforcement
and intelligence data system (with name-matching and linguistic
capacity) for visa, admissibility, or deportation determination
purposes.
Amends the
Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to require a consular officer
issuing a visa to provide INS with an electronic version of the
alien's visa file prior to the alien's U.S. entry.
Sets forth
technology standard and interoperability requirements respecting
development and implementation of the integrated entry and exit
data system and related tamper-resistant, machine-readable documents
containing biometric identifiers.
Directs the
Secretary of State (Secretary) to: (1) establish a Terrorist Lookout
Committee at each U.S. mission in which there is a consular post;
and (2) provide consular staff with visa screening training.
Prohibits
the admission of an alien from a country designated to be a state
sponsor of terrorism until a determination has been made that
such individual does not pose a risk to the United States.
Conditions
participation in the visa waiver program upon a country's timely
reporting to the United States of its stolen blank passports.
Requires the Attorney General to enter stolen passport identification
numbers into the interoperable data system..
Directs the
Secretary, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General,
and the Commissioner of INS to study the feasibility of establishing
a North American Perimeter National Security Program (United States,
Canada, Mexico), including consideration of alien preclearance
and preinspection.
Amends the
Act to require commercial aircraft or vessels arriving at, or
departing from, the United States to provide immigration officers
with specified passenger and crew manifest information. Authorizes
such provisions' extension to land carriers. Requires electronic
manifest transmission by a specified date.
Amends the
Ports and Waterways Safety Act to revise and specify vessel prearrival
message requirements.
Amends the
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 to direct the Attorney General to develop an electronic means
of verifying and monitoring the foreign student information program,
including aspects of documentation and visas issuance, and registration
and enrollment. Increases student data requirements. Specifies
information required for foreign student visa applications. Sets
forth transitional monitoring requirements, including a requirement
that an educational institution report student failure to enroll
information to INS.
Provides
for INS and Department of State review of institutions authorized
to enroll foreign students and exchange visitors.
Amends Federal
law to treat INS immigration inspectors as law enforcement officers
for Federal retirement purposes.
Amends the
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 to extend the deadline for presentation of biometric border
crossing identification cards.
Directs:
(1) the Comptroller General to determine the feasibility of requiring
each nonimmigrant alien to report annually to INS respecting his
or her address and employer's address; and (2) the Secretary and
INS to study alternative approaches to international electronic
data cooperation.
Entire
bill text (pdf)
