Sec. 802.
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The Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security may waive any requirement to undergo a medical exam under section 232 of the Immigration and Nationality ( 8 U.S.C. 1222 ), or any other applicable requirement to undergo a medical exam prior to admission to the United States, for aliens described in section 602(b)(2) of the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 note). A waiver under subsection
(a)shall be for a period of 1 year, which may be extended for additional 1-year periods. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall ensure that an alien who does not undergo a medical exam prior to admission to the United States pursuant to this section receives such an exam not later than 45 days after the date on which the alien is admitted to the United States. With respect to each such alien, not later than 1 year after the date on which the waiver authority under subsection
(a)is exercised, and not later than the date that is 1 year after the date on which any extension under subsection
(b)is granted, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the medical exams undertaken by the alien under paragraph (1). With respect to each alien for whom the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security exercises the waiver authority under subsection
(a)or extends such a waiver under subsection (b), the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as applicable, shall notify the appropriate committees of Congress as soon as practicable thereafter. In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. The amount provided by this section is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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