Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the McCarran-Walter Technical Corrections Act.
Section 2. Members of a federally recognized Indian Tribe in the United States or a First Nation in Canada
Section 289 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1359) is amended—
(1) by inserting (a) before Nothing;
(2) by striking who possess at least 50 per centum of blood of the American Indian race. and inserting the following: “who—; and
(1) are members, or are eligible to become members, of a federally recognized Indian Tribe in the United States; or
(A) has Indian status in Canada through registration under the Indian Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. I–5); or
(B) holds membership in a self-governing First Nation in Canada.
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(b) A person who is admitted to the United States pursuant to subsection (a) shall have the status of a person lawfully admitted for permanent residence.