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112TH CONGRESS J REPT. 112-319
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TO RESOLVE THE STATUS OF CERTAIN PERSONS LEGALLY RESIDING IN
THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS UNDER
THE IMMIGRATION LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
DECEMBER 8, 2011.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1466]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1466) to resolve the status of certain persons legally re-
siding in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
under the immigration laws of the United States, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1466 is to resolve the status of certain per-
sons legally residing in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands under the immigration laws of the United States.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1976, Congress passed and the President signed the Covenant
to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(CNMI) in Political Union with the United States of America (Pub-
lic Law 94-241). The CNMI government adopted its own constitu-
tion in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in Janu-
ary 1978. The Covenant was fully implemented on November 3,
1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 5564, which conferred
United States citizenship on legally qualified CNMI residents. The
Covenant defines the political relationship between the CNMI and
the United States, with the CNMI as a self-governing entity under
the sovereignty of the U.S. The relationship is governed by the
Covenant together with those provisions of the U.S. Constitution,
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