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employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, pro-
mote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other em-
ployees, or responsibility to direct them, or to adjust
their grievances, or effectively recommend such action,
if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such
authority is not merely of a routine or clerical nature,
but requires the use of independent judgment.
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STATE FOR NUMERICAL LIMITATION PURPOSES.
In applying section 202 of the Immigration and Na-
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12 Hong Kong shall be treated as a separate foreign state, and
13 not as a colony or other component or dependent area of a
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IMMIGRANT VISAS FOR CERTAIN RESIDENTS OF
HONG KONG.
(a) EXTENDING PERIOD OF Validity.—
(1) IN GENERAL.-Subject to paragraph (2), the
limitation on the period of validity of an immigrant
visa under section 221(c) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act shall not apply in the case of an immi-
grant visa issued, on or after the date of the enactment
of this Act and before September 1, 2001, to an alien
described in subsection (b), but only if-
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