; Whereas, since the second President and the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan assumed office on December 14, 2016, the Government of Uzbekistan has taken steps towards improvement on religious freedom, including the release of some religious prisoners and the road map resolution issued on May 4, 2018, by the Legislative Chamber and the Senate instructing government offices to implement the recommendations in the February 22, 2018, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief on His Mission to Uzbekistan within a year, and the Government has shown openness to the recommendations of the United States Government regarding religious freedom; Whereas the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act includes a sense of Congress that ongoing and persistent waivers of the application of any of the actions … (or commensurate substitute action) … with respect to a country do not fulfill the purposes of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, and because the promotion of religious freedom is an important interest of United States foreign policy, the President, the Secretary of State, and other executive branch officials, in consultation with Congress, should seek to find ways to address existing violations, on a case-by-case basis, through the actions … or other commensurate substitute action in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998; Whereas section 212(a)(2)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(G) ) provides that [a]ny alien who, while serving as a foreign government official, was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom, as defined in section 3 of the International Religious Freedom Act ( 22 U.S.C. 6402 ) is inadmissible to the United States; Whereas the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114–328