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 Ill STAT. 2460 PUBLIC LAW 105-119—NOV. 26, 1997 "(B) An executive department specified in subparagraph (A) may not make a determination under the second sentence of section 329(a) with respect to the service or separation from service of a person described in paragraph (1) except pursuant to a request from the Service."; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(d) IMPLEMENTATION. —(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of the naturalization of natives of the Philippines under this section— "(A) the processing of applications for naturalization, filed in accordance with the provisions of this section, including necessary interviews, shall be conducted in the Philippines by employees of the Service designated pursuant to section 335(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and "(B) oaths of allegiance for applications for naturalization under this section shall be administered in the Philippines by employees of the Service designated pursuant to section 335(b) of that Act. "(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), applications for naturalization, including necessary interviews, may continue to be processed, and oaths of allegiance may continue to be taken in the United States.". (c) REPEAL.— Section 113 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 (8 U.S.C. 1440 note), is repealed. 8 USC 1440 note. (d) EFFECTIVE DATE; TERMINATION DATE. — (1) APPLICATION TO PENDING APPLICATIONS. — The amendments made by subsection (b) shall apply to applications filed before February 3, 1995. (2) TERMINATION DATE. —The authority provided by the amendments made by subsection (b) shall expire February 3, 200L SEC. 113. Section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)) is amended to read as follows: "(J) an immigrant who is present in the United States— "(i) who has been declared dependent on a juvenile court located in the United States or whom such a court has legally committed to, or placed under the custody of, an agency or department of a State and who has been deemed eligible by that court for longterm foster care due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment; "(ii) for whom it has been determined in administrative or judicial proceedings that it would not be in the alien's best interest to be returned to the alien's or parent's previous country of nationality or country of last habitual residence; and "(iii) in whose case the Attorney General expressly consents to the dependency order serving as a precondition to the grant of special immigrant juvenile status; except that— "(I) no juvenile court has jurisdiction to determine the custody status or placement of an alien in the actued or constructive custody of the Attorney General unless the Attorney General specifically consents to such jurisdiction; and

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