46 U.S.C. § 8704 Alien Deemed to Be Employed In the United States

• Library: United States Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.L. 118-34 (published on www.congress.gov on 12/26/2023), except for [P. L. 118-31]
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 46 U.S.C. § 8704

An alien is deemed to be employed in the United States for purposes of section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1324a ) if the alien is an unlicensed individual employed on a fishing, fish processing, or fish tender vessel that-

(1) is a vessel of the United States engaged in the fisheries in the navigable waters of the United States or the exclusive economic zone; and

(2) is not engaged in fishing exclusively for highly migratory species (as that term is defined in section 3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1802 ).

Cite as 46 U.S.C. § 8704

Source: Added Pub. L. 100-239, §5(f)(1), Jan. 11, 1988, 101 Stat. 1781; amended Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, title I, §101(a) [title II, §211(b)], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009, 3009-41.

Notes from the Office of Law Revision Counsel

current through 7/7/2023