Prohibition on use of funds for transfer of individuals located at Camp As Sayliyah

(a) In general None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for the Department of Defense may be used to transfer or assist in the transfer or involuntary return of an individual described in subsection (b) to— (1) Afghanistan; (2) a third country from which it may reasonably be assumed that the individual will be sent to Afghanistan; or (3) any location the transfer or involuntary return to which would otherwise violate existing law. (b) Individual described An individual described in this subsection is an individual housed at Camp As Sayliyah who— (1) is a national of Afghanistan (or in the case of an individual having no nationality, an individual who last habitually resided in Afghanistan); and (2) was transported to Camp As Sayliyah by the United States Government for the purpose of consideration for admission to the United States. (c) Waiver (1) In general With respect to Afghanistan or a third country from which it may reasonably assumed that an individual described in subsection (b) will be sent to Afghanistan, the Secretary may waive the application of subsection (a) in the case of such an individual with respect to whom there is pre-existing derogatory information that would preclude the individual from settling in the United States or Qatar. (2) Notification Not later than 30 days before the date on which the Secretary intends to exercise the waiver authority under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall notify the relevant committees of Congress of such intent.