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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 5971 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 to provide for additional rules regardi... · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. Immigration functions

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Section 478 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 298 ) is amended to read as follows: It is the sense of Congress that— the quality and efficiency of immigration services rendered by the Federal Government should be improved after the transfers made by this subtitle take effect; the Secretary should undertake efforts to guarantee that concerns regarding the quality and efficiency of immigration services are addressed after such effective date; and the Secretary cannot assign a processing time goal that is longer than a maximum processing timeframe set forth in section 202 of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 .
Section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended in the table of contents by striking the item relating to section 478 and inserting the following: Sec. 478. Sense of Congress regarding immigration services. .
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