Applicability of the Immigration and Nationality Act to Aliens Working on Drilling Rigs on the Outer Continental Shelf

September 21, 1979 79-68 MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE GENERAL COUNSEL, IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE Outer Continental Shelf—Drilling Rigs—Alien Workers ( 43 U.S.C. § 1333) We have your request for our views concerning the applicability o f the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U .S.C . § 1101 et seq., to persons working on drilling rigs on the O uter Continental Shelf. The question arises in the context o f recent amendments to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the increase in drilling activity on the Shelf, and protests by various domestic groups that alien workers should not…