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Article
IV
Immigration
Section 141
(a)
De eee
Any person in the following categories may enter into,
lawfully engage in occupations,
and establish residence as a
non~immigrant in the United States and its territories and
possessions without regard to paragraphs (14), (20), and (26) of
section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.
1182(a) (14), (20), and (26):
(1) a person who, on the day preceding the effective date
of this Compact, is a citizen of the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands, as defined in Title 53 of the
Trust Territory Code in force on January 1, 1979, and
has become a citizen of the Marshall Islands or the
Federated States of Micronesia;
(2) a person who acquires the citizenship of the Marshall
Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia at
birth, on or after the effective date of the
respective Constitution;
(3) a naturalized citizen of the Marshall Islands or the
. Federated States of Micronesia who has been an actual
resident there for not less than five years after
attaining such naturalization and who holds a
certificate of actual residence; or
(4) a person entitled to citizenship in the Marshall
Islands by lineal descent whose name is included in a
list to be furnished by the Government of the Marshall Islands to the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service and any descendants of such
persons, provided that such person holds a certificate of lineal descent issued by the Government of
the Marshall Islands.
Such persons shall be considered to have the permission of the
Attorney General of the United States to accept employment in the
United States.
(b)
The right of such persons to establish habitual residence
in @ territory or possession of the United States may, however, be
subjected to non-discriminatory limitations provided for:
(1) in statutes or regulations of the United States; or
(2) in those statutes or regulations of the territory or
possession concerned which are authorized by the laws
of the Ynited States.