”Section 141
”(a) Any person in the following categories may enter into,
lawfully engage in occupations, and establish residence as a
nonimmigrant in the United States and its territories and
possessions without regard to paragraphs (14), (20), and (26) of
section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.
1182(a) (14), (20), and (26):
”(1) a person who, on the day preceding the effective date of
this Compact, is a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands, as defined in Title 53 of the Trust Territory Code in
force on January 1, 1979, and has become a citizen of the
Marshall Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia;
”(2) a person who acquires the citizenship of the Marshall
Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia at birth, on or
after the effective date of the respective Constitution;
”(3) a naturalized citizen of the Marshall Islands or the
Federated States of Micronesia who has been an actual resident
there for not less than five years after attaining such
naturalization and who holds a certificate of actual residence;
or
”(4) a person entitled to citizenship in the Marshall Islands
by lineal descent whose name is included in a list to be
furnished by the Government of the Marshall Islands to the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service and any descendants
of such persons, provided that such person holds a certificate of
lineal descent issued by the Government of the Marshall Islands.
Such persons shall be considered to have the permission of the
Attorney General of the United States to accept employment in the
United States.
”(b) The right of such persons to establish habitual residence
in a territory or possession of the United States may, however, be
subjected to nondiscriminatory limitations provided for:
”(1) in statutes or regulations of the United States; or
”(2) in those statutes or regulations of the territory or
possession concerned which are authorized by the laws of the
United States.
”(c) Section 141(a) does not confer on a citizen of the Marshall
Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia the right to
establish the residence necessary for naturalization under the
Immigration and Nationality Act, or to petition for benefits for
alien relatives under that Act. Section 141(a), however, shall not
prevent a citizen of the Marshall Islands or the Federated States
of Micronesia from otherwise acquiring such rights or lawful
permanent resident alien status in the United States.