The CNRA requires the Department of Homeland Security to include a listing of any countries from which the CNMI had received a “significant economic benefit” from the number of visitors for pleasure within the year preceding enactment. This list was required to be included in the regulation enacting the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program.
The Department determined that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia meet this economic threshold.
On October 21, 2009, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that she will exercise her discretionary authority to parole into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) visitors for business or pleasure who are nationals of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Parole will be authorized on a case-by-case basis only for entry into the CNMI and will not extend to other areas of the United States.
To be eligible for the parole provision, prior to embarking on a carrier for travel to the CNMI, each nonimmigrant alien must:
* Be a national of the People’s Republic of China or the Russian Federation;
* Be solely entering and staying in the CNMI for a period not to exceed 45 days;
* Be in possession of a roundtrip ticket that is nonrefundable and nontransferable and bears a confirmed departure date not exceeding 45 days from the date of entry to the CNMI;
* Be in possession of a completed and signed Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Information form (CBP Form I-736);
* Be in possession of a completed I-94, Arrival-Departure Record (CBP Form I-94); and
* Be in possession of a valid unexpired ICAO-compliant, machine readable passport.
The CNRA requires the Department of Homeland Security to include a listing of any countries from which the CNMI had received a “significant economic benefit” from the number of visitors for pleasure within the year preceding enactment. This list was required to be included in the regulation enacting the Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program.
The Department determined that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia meet this economic threshold.
On October 21, 2009, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced that she will exercise her discretionary authority to parole into the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) visitors for business or pleasure who are nationals of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Parole will be authorized on a case-by-case basis only for entry into the CNMI and will not extend to other areas of the United States.
To be eligible for the parole provision, prior to embarking on a carrier for travel to the CNMI, each nonimmigrant alien must:
* Be a national of the People’s Republic of China or the Russian Federation;
* Be solely entering and staying in the CNMI for a period not to exceed 45 days;
* Be in possession of a roundtrip ticket that is nonrefundable and nontransferable and bears a confirmed departure date not exceeding 45 days from the date of entry to the CNMI;
* Be in possession of a completed and signed Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Information form (CBP Form I-736);
* Be in possession of a completed I-94, Arrival-Departure Record (CBP Form I-94); and
* Be in possession of a valid unexpired ICAO-compliant, machine readable passport.