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 PUBLIC LAW 94-484—OCT. 12, 1976

90 STAT. 2301

II of the National Board of Medical Examiners Examination (or an equivalent examination as determined by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) and who are competent in oral and written English. The exclusion of aliens under this paragraph shall apply to special immigrants defined in section 101(a) (27)(A) (other than 8 USC 1101. the parents, spouses, or children of United States citizens or of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence), to nonpreference immigrant aliens described in section 203(a)(8), and to preference 8 USC 1153. immigrant aliens described in section 203(a)(3) and (6).". (b) Section 101(a) (15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a) (15)) isamendedasfollows: (1) Subparagraph (H)(i) is amended by inserting before the semicolon ", and who, in the case of a graduate of a medical school coming to the United States to perform services as a member of the medical profession, is coming pursuant to an invitation from a public or nonprofit private educational or research institution or agency in the United States to teach or conduct research, or both, at or for such institution or agency". (2) Subparagraph (H) (ii) is amended by inserting before the semicolon ", but this clause shall not apply to graduates of medical schools coming to the United States to perform services as members of the medical profession". (3) Subparagraph (H) (iii) is amended by inserting before the semicolon ", other than to receive graduate medical education or training". (4) Subparagraph (J) is amended by inserting "and who, if he is coming to the United States to participate in a program under which he will receive graduate medical education or training, also meets the requirements of section 212(j)" before ", and the alien spouse". (c) Section 212(e) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(e)) is amended— (1) by striking out "whose (i) " and inserting in lieu thereof "(i) whose"; (2) by striking out "or" immediately before " ( i i) "; (3) by inserting immediately before "shall be eligible" in the first sentence the following: "or (iii) who came to the United States or acquired such status in order to receive graduate medical education or training,"; and (4) by inserting ", except in the case of an alien described in clause (iii)." immediately after '"''Provided further, That". (d) Section 212 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182) is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(j)(1) The additional requirements referred to in section 101(a) (15)(J) for an alien who is coming to the United States under a Supra. program under which he will receive graduate medical education or training are: "(A) A school of medicine or of one of the other health professions, which is accredited by a body or bodies approved for the purpose by the Commissioner of Education, has agreed in writing to provide the graduate medical education or training under the program for which the alien is coming to the United States or to assume responsibility for arranging for the provision thereof by an appropriate public or nonprofit private institution or agency, except that, in the case of such an agreement by a school of medicine, any one or more of its affiliated hospitals which are to participate in the provision of the graduate medical education or training must join in the agreement;

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