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 106 STAT. 1970 PUBLIC LAW 102-404—OCT. 9, 1992 (c) CONDITION; DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.— (1) NOT APPLICABLE IF SAFE RETURN PERMITTED. —Subsection (a) shall not apply to any alien if the President has determined and certified to Congress, before the first day of the application period, that conditions in the People's Republic of China permit aliens described in subsection (b)(1) to return to that foreign state in safety. (2) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.— If the President has not made the certification described in paragraph (1) by the first day of the application period, the Attorney General shall, subject to the availability of appropriations, immediately broadly disseminate to aliens described in subsection (b)(1) information respecting the benefits available under this section. To the extent practicable, the Attorney General shall provide notice of these benefits to the last known mailing address of each such alien. (d) OFFSET IN PER COUNTRY NUMERICAL LEVEL.— (1) IN GENERAL. — The numerical level under section 202(a)(2) of the Immigration and NationaUty Act applicable to natives of the People's Republic of China in each applicable fiscal year (as defined in paragraph (3)) shall be reduced by 1,000. (2) ALLOTMENT IF SECTION 202(e) APPLIES. —If section 202(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act is applied to the People's Republic of China in an applicable fiscal year, in applying such section— (A) 300 immigrant visa numbers shall be deemed to have been previously issued to natives of that foreign state under section 203(b)(3)(A)(i) of such Act in that year, and (B) 700 immigrant visa numbers shall be deemed to have been previously issued to natives of that foreign state under section 203(b)(5) of such Act in that year. (3) APPLICABLE FISCAL YEAR.— (A) IN GENERAL.—In this subsection, the term "applicable fiscal year" means each fiscal year during the period— (i) beginning with the fiscal year in which the application period begins; and (ii) ending with the first fiscal year by the end of which the cumulative number of aliens counted for all fiscal years under subparagraph (B) equals or exceeds the total number of aliens whose status has been adjusted under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act pursuant to subsection (a). (B) NUMBER COUNTED EACH YEAR.— The number counted under this subparagraph for a fiscal year (beginning during or after the application period) is 1,000, plus the number (if any) by which (i) the immigration level

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