SPECIAL IMMIGRANT STATUS FOR CERTAIN NATO CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.

SEC. 421. SPECIAL IMMIGRANT STATUS FOR CERTAIN NATO CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES. (a) In General.—Section 101(a)(27) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)) is amended— (1) by striking “or” at the end of subparagraph (J); (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (K) and inserting “; or”;, and (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: “(L) an immigrant who would be described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subparagraph (I) if any reference in such a clause— “(i) to an international organization described in paragraph (15)(G)(i) were treated as a reference to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); “(ii) to a nonimmigrant under paragraph (15)(G)(iv) were treated as a reference to a nonimmigrant classifiable under NATO-6 (as a member of a civilian component accompanying a force entering in accordance with the provisions of the NATO Status-of-Forces Agreement, a member of a civilian component attached to or employed by an Allied Headquarters under the ‘Protocol on the Status of 112 STAT. 2681–658International Military Headquarters’ set up pursuant to the North Atlantic Treaty, or as a dependent); and “(iii) to the Immigration Technical Corrections Act of 1988 or to the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 were a reference to the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998.”. (b) Conforming Nonimmigrant Status for Certain Parents of Special Immigrant Children.—Section 101(a)(15)(N) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(N)) is amended— (1) by inserting “(or under analogous authority under paragraph (27)(L))” after “(27)(I)(i)”; and (2) by inserting “(or under analogous authority under paragraph (27)(L))” after “(27)(I)”.