Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 108 Part 5.djvu/825

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PUBLIC LAW 103-416—OCT. 25, 1994 108 STAT. 4315 SEC. 215. EXTENSION OF OFF-CAMPUS WORK AUTHORIZATION FOR STUDENTS. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 221 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-649; 104 Stat. 4978) as amended by section 8 USC ll84note. 303(b)(1) of the Miscellaneous and Technical Immigration and Naturalization Amendments of 1991 (Public Law 102-232; 105 Stat. 1747) is amended— (1) in the heading for subsection (a) by striking "3-YEAR" and inserting "5-YEAR"; (2) in subsection (a) by striking "3-year" and inserting "5-year"; and (3) in subsection (b) by striking "1994," and inserting "1996,". SEC. 216. ELIMINATING OBLIGATION OF CARRIERS TO DETAIN STOW- AWAYS. The first sentence of section 273(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1323(d)) is amended to read as follows: "The owner, charterer, agent, consignee, commanding officer, or master of any vessel or aircraft arriving at the United States from any place outside the United States who fails to deport any alien stowaway on the vessel or aircraft on which such stowaway arrived or on another vessel or aircraft at the expense of the vessel or aircraft on which such stowaway arrived when required to do so by an immigration officer, shall pay to the Commissioner the sum of $3,000 for each alien stowaway, in respect of whom any such failure occurs.". SEC. 217. COMPLETING USE OF VISAS PROVIDED UNDER DIVERSITY TRANSITION PROGRAM. (a) EXTENSION OF DIVERSITY TRANSITION PROGRAM.— Section 132 of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-649) is 8 USC 1153note. amended— (1) in subsection (a), by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence the following: "and in fiscal year 1995 a number of immigrant visas equal to the number of such visas provided (but not made available) under this section in previous fiscal years"; and (2) in the next to last sentence of subsection (c), by striking "or 1993" and inserting ", 1993, or 1994". (b) ADMINISTRATION OF 1995 DIVERSITY TRANSITION PRO- B use II53 note. GRAM.— (1) ELIGIBILITY.—For the purpose of carrying out the extension of the diversity transition program under the amendments made by subsection (a), applications for natives of diversity transition countries submitted for fiscal year 1995 for diversity immigrants under section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be considered applications for visas made available for fiscal year 1995 for the diversity transition program under section 132 of the Immigration Act of 1990. No application period for the fiscal year 1995 diversity transition program shall be established and no new applications may be accepted for visas made available under such program for fiscal year 1995. Applications for visas in excess of the minimum available to natives of the country specified in section 132(c) of the Immigration Act of 1990 shall be selected for qualified applicants within the several regions defined in section