Proposed Rules on Immigration to Be Reviewed

WASHINGTON — The Immigration and Naturalization Service on Friday canceled a news conference and pulled back from public view proposed rules designed to implement the nation’s new immigration law.

The steps were taken after the Office of Management and Budget said it needed more time to review the proposals, INS spokesman Duke Austin said.

Budget office spokesman Ed Dale said his agency did not receive the proposed regulations until Thursday.

Austin said, however, that the budget office had received drafts of the regulations earlier and that it had had sufficient time to work on the drafts, which he said closely parallel the proposals sent to the office on Thursday.

Rules Not Cleared

The INS had planned to unveil the proposed rules at a Friday news conference, but “they’re not supposed to have a news conference about rules that have not been cleared,” Dale said. Plans to publish the rules in the Federal Register have been put off indefinitely.

Under the new law, the INS on May 5 will begin accepting applications for legalization from illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States before Jan. 1, 1982, and have lived here since then. The regulations are designed, among other things, to carry out the legalization program.

The delay in issuing the proposed regulations could result in the INS’s putting in place interim rules to implement the measure, which was signed into law by President Reagan last November.

Interim Regulations

The new immigration law contains a provision authorizing the issuance of interim regulations in the event permanent rules are not in effect.

The INS is proposing in the regulations that the Reagan Administration approve a plan to establish a $175 fee for each illegal alien seeking legal immigrant status in the United States and $400 for each family’s application.

Those amounts are likely to be changed during the budget office review process, although not substantially, Justice Department and INS sources said.