The Department is amending its regulations to add new immigrant and nonimmigrant symbols to the classification tables. The amendments are necessary to implement recently enacted legislation. The legislation created a new immigrant category for certain international broadcasters (BC1, BC2, and BC3) and new nonimmigrant categories for victims of trafficking for illicit sexual purposes and slavery (T1 and T2), aliens who have suffered abuse such as battering and other forms of violence (U1 and U2), spouses and children of lawful permanent residents for whom petitions were filed before December 21, 2000 and who have been waiting for an immigrant visa for three years or more (V1, V2, and V3), and spouses of U.S. citizens (K3) and children of the K3 (K4) who are awaiting the issuance of an immigrant visa (K3, K4). This rule removes the immigrant classification for diversity transition natives (AA1, AA2 and AA3). This program ended September 30, 1995. The Department is also taking this opportunity to amend the classification symbols for retired NATO-6 employees, their spouses and their unmarried sons and daughters. In the Department's publication on April 19, 2000 [65 FR 20903], the Department erroneously classified these aliens as SK special immigrants. These aliens should be classified as SN1, SN2, SN3 and SN4.
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