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Section 314 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-603, Nov. 6, 1986) provided 5,000 visa numbers for each of fiscal years 1987 and 1988 to nonpreference immigrants outside the 270,000 annual numerical limitation in Section 201(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), with such visa numbers to be made available first to applicants from countries whose immigration to the United States was "adversely affected" by P.L. 89-236 (the Act of October 3, 1965 which revised the basis of legal immigration to the United States), in the order in which they qualified for status after enactment of the 1986 Act. Section 2 of the Immigration Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-658, Nov. 15, 1988) extended this visa category through fiscal years 1989 and 1990, with 15,000 visa numbers provided for each of those years. NP-5 status continues to be limited to natives of the thirty-six chargeability aranS previously specified as "adversely affected", to which visas were availabı. during the first two years of the NP-5 program.
D. OP-1 VISAS FOR IMMIGRANTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED COUNTRIES TO ENHANCE
DIVERSITY IN IMMIGRATION
Section 3 of the Immigration Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-658, Nov. 15, 1988) provides 10,000 visas for each of fiscal years 1990 and 1991 to natives of "underrepresented countries". These numbers are outside the 270,000 worldwide annual limitation set by Sec. 201(a) of the INA. An "underrepresented country" is defined in the 1988 legislation as a foreign state from which immigrants during FY-1988 used less than 25 percent of the maximum of 20,000 preference immigrant numbers under the per-country limitation.
For APRIL, immigrant numbers in the OP-1 category have been made available to qualified immigrants chargeable to all "underrepresented" countries with lottery rank numbers lower than:
E.
15006
AVAILABILITY OF ASYLEE NUMBERS FOR ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS CASES
The following information has been provided by the Refugees, Asylum and Parole Office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service:
Five thousand asylees may adjust their status to lawful permanent resident per fiscal year. For fiscal year 1990, which began on October 1, 1989, asylees who filed their application to adjust before May 5, 1988 and whose names are included on the Immigration and Naturalization Service centralized computer list are eligible.
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VISA AVAILABILITY FOR MEXICO
Applicant demand for Mexico visa numbers during the first half of fiscal year 1990 has been quite heavy. Should Mexico number use continue at the current rate, the Mexico fiscal year 1990 20,000 country limit could be reached well before the end of the fiscal year in September. The availability of Mexico immigrant numbers during the last quarter of fiscal year 1990 (July-September) cannot be taken for granted, therefore. If the country limit is reached, allocations for those months could be "unavailable"; allocations in all Mexico preferences would resume with the start of the new fiscal year on October 1.
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