Proclamation 5517 --
Suspension of Cuban Immigration
By
the President of the
of
A
Proclamation
In
light of the May 20, 1985, statement of the Government of Cuba that it had decided
``to suspend all types of procedures regarding the execution'' of the December
14, 1984, immigration agreement between the United States and Cuba, thereby
disrupting normal migration procedures between the two countries, and in light
of the continuing failure of the Government of Cuba to resume normal migration
procedures with the United States while at the same time facilitating illicit
migration to the United States, I have determined that it is in the interest of
the United States to suspend entry into the United States as immigrants by all
Cuban nationals, with the exceptions noted below, pending the restoration of
normal migration procedures between the two countries.
Now,
Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, by the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including Section 212(f)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1182(f))
(``the Act''), having found that the unrestricted entry into the United States
as immigrants by Cuban citizens would, except as provided in Section 2, be
detrimental to the interests of the United States, do proclaim that:
Section 1. Entry of Cuban nationals as immigrants
is hereby suspended, except as noted in Section 2.
Sec. 2. The suspension of entry as immigrants
contained in Section 1 shall not apply: (a) to Cuban nationals applying for
admission to the United States as immediate relatives under Section 201(b) of
the Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(b)) and special immigrants described in Section 101(a)(27)(A)
of the Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(A)); (b) to Cuban nationals applying for
admission into the United States as preference immigrants under Section 203(a)
of the Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(a)) at United States consular posts designated by the
Secretary of State for the processing of Cuban nationals, where the applicant
can demonstrate that he or she departed Cuba prior to the date of this
proclamation, has remained outside Cuba since that date, and otherwise
qualified for preference immigrants status; and (c) in such other cases or
categories of cases as may be designated from time to time by the Secretary of
State or his designee.
Sec. 3. This proclamation shall be effective
immediately and shall remain in effect until such time as the Secretary of State,
after consultation with the Attorney General, determines that normal migration
procedures with
In
Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-second day of August,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the
Ronald
Reagan
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