110 STAT. 3009 -699 PUBLIC LAW 104-208—SEPT. 30, 1996
"(aa) a team that is a member of an
association of 6 or more professional sports
teams whose total combined revenues exceed
$10,000,000 per year, if the association governs the conduct of its members and regulates
the contests and exhibitions in which its member teams regularly engage; or
"(bb) any minor league team that is affiliated with such an association.",
(b) CLASSIFICATION PETITIONS. — Section 204 (8 U.S.C. 1154)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
"(i) PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES. —
"(1) IN GENERAL.—^A petition under subsection (a)(4)(D)
for classification of a professional athlete shall remain valid
for the athlete after the athlete changes employers, if the
new employer is a team in the same sport as the team which
was the employer who filed the petition.
"(2) DEFINITION. —For purposes of paragraph (1), the term
'professional athlete' means an individual who is employed
as an athlete by—
"(A) a team that is a member of an association of
6 or more professional sports teams whose total combined
revenues exceed $10,000,000 per year, if the association
governs the conduct of its members and regulates the contests and exhibitions in which its member teams regularly
engage; or
"(B) any minor league team that is affiliated with
such an association.".
SEC. 625. FOREIGN STUIffiNTS.
(a) LIMITATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.— Section 214 (8 U.S.C. 1184) is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
"(1)(1) An alien may not be accorded status as a nonimmigrant
under section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) in order to pursue a course of study—
"(A) at a public elementary school or in a publicly funded
adult education program; or
"(B) at a public secondary school unless—
"(i) the aggregate period of such status at such a school
does not exceed 12 months with respect to any alien, and
(ii) the alien demonstrates that the alien has reimbursed
the local educational agency that administers the school
for the full, unsubsidized per capita cost of providing education at such school for the period of the alien's attendance.
"(2) An alien who obtains the status of a nonimmigrant under
section 101(a)(15)(F)(i) in order to pursue a course of study at
a private elementary or secondary school or in a language training
program that is not publicly funded shall be considered to have
violated such status, and the alien's visa under section 101(a)(15)(F)
shall be void, if the alien terminates or abandons such course
of study at such a school and undertakes a course of study at
a public elementary school, in a publicly funded adult education
program, in a publicly funded adult education language training
program, or at a public secondary school (unless the requirements
of paragraph (1)(B) are met).".
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