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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 1125 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for new procedures pertaining to the processing of petitions... · Sec. 4

Sec. 4. Expeditious expansion of assignment of Homeland Security employees to diplomatic and consular posts

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Section 428 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 236 ) is amended— in subsection (e)— by amending paragraph
(1)to read as follows: Not later than 4 years after the date of the enactment of the Visa Investigation and Social Media Activity Act of 2017 , the Secretary shall assign employees of the Department to each diplomatic and consular post at which visas are issued, and shall communicate such assignments to the Secretary of State. ; and by amending paragraph (2)(B) to read as follows: Review all such applications and supporting documentation prior to the adjudication of such an application. ; and by striking subsection (i). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and the processes set forth in National Security Defense Directive 38 (dated June 2, 1982) or any successor Directive, not later than one year after the date on which the Secretary of Homeland Security communicates to the Secretary of State the assignment of personnel to a diplomatic or consular post under section 428(e) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 236(e) ), as amended by this Act, the Chief of Mission of such a post shall ensure that such personnel have been stationed and accommodated at that post and are able to carry out their duties. There is authorized to be appropriated $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2018 and 2019, which shall be used to expedite the implementation of section 428(e) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 236(e) ), as amended by this Act.
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