Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

Subjects: Immigration, Border security and unlawful immigration, Immigration status and procedures

Summary:  <p><b>Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929</b></p> <p>This bill expands eligibility for a program that authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to, at its discretion, provide lawful permanent resident status to certain long-term residents of the United States, including individuals who are unlawfully present.</p> <p>Currently, this program, sometimes referred to as the Registry program, is only available to eligible non-U.S. nationals (<i>aliens</i> under federal law) who entered the United States before January 1, 1972. The bill removes this entry cutoff date and opens up the program to eligible individuals who have resided in the United States for at least seven years. </p> <p>Existing requirements (e.g., the individual must not be inadmissible or deportable due to certain grounds related to crime or terrorism) continue to apply.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1511 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1511

 To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render 
   available to certain long-term residents of the United States the 
                      benefit under that section.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2023

  Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
   Correa, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Cardenas, Ms. 
Norton, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Panetta, 
Mr. Gomez, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Sanchez, 
Ms. Ross, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Payne, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Bush, Mr. 
Vargas, Ms. Lee of California, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Salinas, Ms. Clarke 
 of New York, Ms. Omar, Mr. Soto, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Wilson 
  of Florida, Mr. Trone, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. McGovern, Ms. 
 Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. Chu, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. 
Scanlon, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Ms. DeGette, 
Mr. Robert Garcia of California, Ms. Tokuda, and Mr. Casar) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render 
   available to certain long-term residents of the United States the 
                      benefit under that section.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Renewing Immigration Provisions of 
the Immigration Act of 1929''.

SEC. 2. REGISTRY.

    (a) In General.--Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1259) is amended--
            (1) in the section header, by striking ``entered the united 
        states prior to july 1, 1924 or january 1, 1972''; and 
        inserting ``are long-term residents of the united states''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) entered the United States at least 7 years before the 
application date;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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