This rule proposes to amend the Department of Justice (Department) regulations to provide for the adjustment of status to that of lawful permanent resident for certain aliens from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. On November 6, 2000, Public Law 106-429, the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act of 2001, was signed into law. Section 586 of Public Law 106-429 provides for the adjustment of status for certain aliens from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Eligible applicants must have been physically present in the United States both prior to and on October 1, 1997, and inspected and paroled into the United States before October 1, 1997, either from Vietnam under the Orderly Departure Program, from a refugee camp in East Asia, or from a displaced persons camp administered by the United Nations in Thailand. This rule proposes to add regulations governing eligibility, evidence, and application and adjudication procedures, and also to add a new section in the regulations that lists the types of evidence an alien may use to demonstrate his or her physical presence in the United States on a specific date. Finally, this rule proposes a general amendment to the regulatory standards for waivers of the criminal grounds of inadmissibility under section 212(h) of the Act.
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