SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Re-
authorization Act of 2008’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—COMBATING INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING IN 
PERSONS 
Sec. 101. Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. 
Sec. 102. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. 
Sec. 103. Prevention and prosecution of trafficking in foreign countries. 
Sec. 104. Assistance for victims of trafficking in other countries. 
Sec. 105. Increasing effectiveness of anti-trafficking programs. 
Sec. 106. Minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. 
Sec. 107. Actions against governments failing to meet minimum standards. 
Sec. 108. Research on domestic and international trafficking in persons. 
Sec. 109. Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking 
in Persons. 
Sec. 110. Report on activities of the Department of Labor to monitor and com-
bat forced labor and child labor. 
Sec. 111. Sense of Congress regarding multilateral framework between labor 
exporting and labor importing countries. 
TITLE II—COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Ensuring Availability of Possible Witnesses and Informants 
Sec. 201. Protecting trafficking victims against retaliation. 
Sec. 202. Protections for domestic workers and other nonimmigrants. 
Sec. 203. Protections, remedies, and limitations on issuance for A–3 and G–5 
visas. 
Sec. 204. Relief for certain victims pending actions on petitions and applica-
tions for relief. 
Sec. 205. Expansion of authority to permit continued presence in the United 
States. 
Subtitle B—Assistance for Trafficking Victims 
Sec. 211. Assistance for certain nonimmigrant status applicants. 
Sec. 212. Interim assistance for children. 
Sec. 213. Ensuring assistance for all victims of trafficking in persons. 
Subtitle C—Penalties Against Traffickers and Other Crimes 
Sec. 221. Restitution of forfeited assets; enhancement of civil action. 
Sec. 222. Enhancing penalties for trafficking offenses.
Sec. 223. Jurisdiction in certain trafficking offenses. 
Sec. 224. Bail conditions, subpoenas, and repeat offender penalties for sex traf-
ficking. 
Sec. 225. Promoting effective State enforcement. 
Subtitle D—Activities of the United States Government 
Sec. 231. Annual report by the Attorney General. 
Sec. 232. Investigation by the Inspectors General. 
Sec. 233. Senior Policy Operating Group. 
Sec. 234. Preventing United States travel by traffickers. 
Sec. 235. Enhancing efforts to combat the trafficking of children. 
Sec. 236. Restriction of passports for sex tourism. 
Sec. 237. Additional reporting on crime. 
Sec. 238. Processing of certain visas. 
Sec. 239. Temporary increase in fee for certain consular services. 
TITLE III—AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 301. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. 
Sec. 302. Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005. 
Sec. 303. Rule of construction. 
Sec. 304. Technical amendments. 
TITLE IV—CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Definitions. 
Sec. 403. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 404. Prohibition. 
Sec. 405. Reports. 
Sec. 406. Training for foreign service officers. 
Sec. 407. Effective date; applicability. 
TITLE 
I—COMBATING 
INTER-
NATIONAL TRAFFICKING IN 
PERSONS 
SEC. 101. INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE TO MONITOR AND 
COMBAT TRAFFICKING. 
Section 105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(b)) is amended by inserting 
‘‘the Secretary of Education,’’ after ‘‘the Secretary of 
Homeland Security,’’.
SEC. 102. OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING. 
Section 105(e) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(e)) is amended— 
(1) in the subsection heading, by striking ‘‘SUP-
PORT FOR THE TASK FORCE’’ and inserting ‘‘OF-
FICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘The Secretary of State is au-
thorized to’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of State 
shall’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) COORDINATION OF CERTAIN ACTIVITIES.— 
‘‘(A) PARTNERSHIPS.—The Director, in 
coordination and cooperation with other officials 
at the Department of State involved in cor-
porate responsibility, the Deputy Under Sec-
retary for International Affairs of the Depart-
ment of Labor, and other relevant officials of 
the United States Government, shall promote, 
build, and sustain partnerships between the 
United States Government and private entities 
(including foundations, universities, corpora-
tions, 
community-based 
organizations, 
and 
other nongovernmental organizations) to ensure 
that—
‘‘(i) United States citizens do not use 
any item, product, or material produced or 
extracted with the use of labor from vic-
tims of severe forms of trafficking; and 
‘‘(ii) such entities do not contribute to 
trafficking in persons involving sexual ex-
ploitation. 
‘‘(B) UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE.—The 
Director shall be responsible for— 
‘‘(i) all policy, funding, and program-
ming decisions regarding funds made avail-
able for trafficking in persons programs 
that are centrally controlled by the Office 
to Monitor and Combat Trafficking; and 
‘‘(ii) coordinating any trafficking in 
persons programs of the Department of 
State or the United States Agency for 
International Development that are not 
centrally controlled by the Director.’’. 
SEC. 103. PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAF-
FICKING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 
(a) PREVENTION.—Section 106 of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S. C. 7104) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(i) ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO PREVENT
AND 
DETER TRAFFICKING.—The President shall establish and 
carry out programs to prevent and deter trafficking in per-
sons, including— 
‘‘(1) technical assistance and other support to 
improve the capacity of foreign governments to in-
vestigate, identify, and carry out inspections of pri-
vate entities, including labor recruitment centers, at 
which trafficking victims may be exploited, particu-
larly exploitation involving forced and child labor; 
‘‘(2) technical assistance and other support for 
foreign governments and nongovernmental organiza-
tions to provide immigrant populations with infor-
mation, in the native languages of the major immi-
grant groups of such populations, regarding the 
rights of such populations in the foreign country and 
local in-country nongovernmental organization-oper-
ated hotlines; 
‘‘(3) technical assistance to provide legal frame-
works and other programs to foreign governments 
and nongovernmental organizations to ensure that— 
‘‘(A) foreign migrant workers are provided 
the same protection as nationals of the foreign 
country;
‘‘(B) labor recruitment firms are regulated; 
and 
‘‘(C) workers providing domestic services 
in households are provided protection under 
labor rights laws; and 
‘‘(4) assistance to foreign governments to reg-
ister vulnerable populations as citizens or nationals 
of the country to reduce the ability of traffickers to 
exploit such populations.’’. 
(b) PROSECUTION.—Section 134(a)(2) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2152d(a)(2)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end before the semicolon the following: 
‘‘, including investigation of individuals and entities that 
may be involved in trafficking in persons involving sexual 
exploitation’’. 
SEC. 104. ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING IN 
OTHER COUNTRIES. 
Section 107(a) of Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the second sentence, by inserting be-
fore the period at the end the following: ‘‘, and 
shall be carried out in a manner which takes 
into account the cross-border, regional, and
integration, reintegration, and resettle-
ment.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘In carrying out this paragraph, the Sec-
retary and the Administrator shall take all appro-
priate steps to ensure that cooperative efforts among 
foreign countries are undertaken on a regional 
basis.’’. 
SEC. 105. INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTI-TRAF-
FICKING PROGRAMS. 
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 
107 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 107A. INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTI-TRAF-
FICKING PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) AWARDING OF GRANTS, COOPERATIVE AGREE-
MENTS, AND CONTRACTS.—In administering funds made 
available to carry out this Act within and outside the 
United States— 
‘‘(1) solicitations of grants, cooperative agree-
ments, and contracts for such programs shall be 
made publicly available; 
‘‘(2) grants, cooperative agreements, and con-
tracts shall be subject to full and open competition, 
in accordance with applicable laws; and
‘‘(3) the internal department or agency review 
process for such grants, cooperative agreements, and 
contracts shall not be subject to ad hoc or intermit-
tent review or influence by individuals or organiza-
tions outside the United States Government except 
as provided under paragraphs (1) and (2). 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—An applicant desiring a 
grant, contract, or cooperative agreement under this 
Act shall certify that, to the extent practicable, per-
sons or entities providing legal services, social serv-
ices, health services, or other assistance have com-
pleted, or will complete, training in connection with 
trafficking in persons. 
‘‘(2) DISCLOSURE.—If appropriate, applicants 
should indicate collaboration with nongovernmental 
organizations, including organizations with expertise 
in trafficking in persons. 
‘‘(c) EVALUATION
OF
ANTI-TRAFFICKING
PRO-
GRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall estab-
lish a system to evaluate the effectiveness and effi-
ciency of the assistance provided under anti-traf-
ficking programs established under this Act on a 
program-by-program basis in order to maximize the
long-term sustainable development impact of such 
assistance. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In carrying out para-
graph (1), the President shall— 
‘‘(A) establish performance goals for the 
assistance described in paragraph (1), ex-
pressed in an objective and quantifiable form, 
to the extent practicable; 
‘‘(B) ensure that performance indicators 
are used for programs authorized under this 
Act to measure and assess the achievement of 
the performance goals described in subpara-
graph (A); 
‘‘(C) provide a basis for recommendations 
for adjustments to the assistance described in 
paragraph (1) to enhance the impact of such 
assistance; and 
‘‘(D) ensure that evaluations are conducted 
by subject matter experts in and outside the 
United States Government, to the extent prac-
ticable. 
‘‘(d) TARGETED USE OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING PRO-
GRAMS.—In providing assistance under this division, the 
President should take into account the priorities and coun-
try assessments contained in the most recent report sub-
mitted by the Secretary of State to Congress pursuant to 
section 110(b). 
‘‘(e) CONSISTENCY WITH OTHER PROGRAMS.—The 
President shall ensure that the design, monitoring, and 
evaluation of United States assistance programs for emer-
gency relief, development, and poverty alleviation under 
part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq. and 2346 et seq.) 
and other similar United States assistance programs are 
consistent with United States policies and other United 
States programs relating to combating trafficking in per-
sons. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—For 
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011, not more than 
5 percent of the amounts made available to carry out this 
division may be used to carry out this section, including— 
‘‘(1) evaluations of promising anti-trafficking 
programs and projects funded by the disbursing 
agency pursuant to this Act; and 
‘‘(2) evaluations of emerging problems or global 
trends.’’. 
SEC. 106. MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF 
TRAFFICKING. 
Section 108 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7106) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘a significant 
number of’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking the pe-
riod at the end of the first sentence and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘, including, as appropriate, 
requiring incarceration of individuals convicted 
of such acts. For purposes of the preceding sen-
tence, suspended or significantly-reduced sen-
tences for convictions of principal actors in 
cases of severe forms of trafficking in persons 
shall be considered, on a case-by-case basis, 
whether to be considered an indicator of serious 
and sustained efforts to eliminate severe forms 
of trafficking in persons.’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, including 
by providing training to law enforcement and 
immigration officials regarding the identifica-
tion and treatment of trafficking victims using 
approaches that focus on the needs of the vic-
tims’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘meas-
ures to reduce the demand for commercial sex 
acts and for participation in international sex
tourism by nationals of the country’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘measures to establish the identity of local 
populations, including birth registration, citi-
zenship, and nationality’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(11) Whether the government of the country 
has made serious and sustained efforts to reduce the 
demand for— 
‘‘(A) commercial sex acts; and 
‘‘(B) participation in international sex 
tourism by nationals of the country.’’. 
SEC. 107. ACTIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENTS FAILING TO 
MEET MINIMUM STANDARDS. 
(a) COUNTRIES ON SPECIAL WATCH LIST RELATING 
TO TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
FOR 2 CONSECUTIVE 
YEARS.—Section 110(b)(3) of the Trafficking Victims 
Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(3)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) COUNTRIES ON SPECIAL WATCH LIST 
FOR 2 CONSECUTIVE YEARS.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided under clause (ii), a country that is 
included on the special watch list described 
in subparagraph (A) for 2 consecutive 
years after the date of the enactment of
this subparagraph, shall be included on the 
list of countries described in paragraph 
(1)(C). 
‘‘(ii) EXERCISE OF WAIVER AUTHOR-
ITY.—The President may waive the appli-
cation of clause (i) for up to 2 years if the 
President determines, and reports credible 
evidence to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations of the Senate and the Committee 
on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives, that such a waiver is justified 
because— 
‘‘(I) the country has a written 
plan to begin making significant ef-
forts to bring itself into compliance 
with the minimum standards for the 
elimination of trafficking; 
‘‘(II) the plan, if implemented, 
would constitute making such signifi-
cant efforts; and 
‘‘(III) the country is devoting 
sufficient resources to implement the 
plan.’’. 
(b) CLARIFICATION OF MEASURES AGAINST CERTAIN 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.—Section 110(d)(1)(A)(ii) of the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7107(d)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘such assistance 
to the government of the country for the subsequent fiscal 
year and will not provide’’ after ‘‘will not provide’’. 
(c) TRANSLATION OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS RE-
PORT.—The Secretary of State shall— 
(1) timely translate the annual report submitted 
under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)) into the 
principal languages of as many countries as possible, 
with particular emphasis on the languages of the 
countries on the lists described in subparagraphs 
(B) and (C) of section 110(b)(1) of such Act; and 
(2) ensure that the translations described in 
paragraph (1) are made available to the public 
through postings on the Internet website of the De-
partment of State and other appropriate websites. 
SEC. 108. RESEARCH ON DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL 
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS. 
(a) INTEGRATED DATABASE.—Section 112A of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 
7109a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by amending paragraph 
(5) to read as follows:
‘‘(5) An effective mechanism for quantifying the 
number of victims of trafficking on a national, re-
gional, and international basis, which shall include, 
not later than 2 years after the date of the enact-
ment of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims 
Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, the estab-
lishment and maintenance of an integrated database 
within the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Cen-
ter.’’; and 
(2) by amending subsection (b) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) ROLE
OF HUMAN SMUGGLING
AND TRAF-
FICKING CENTER.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The research initiatives de-
scribed in paragraphs (4) and (5) of subsection (a) 
shall be carried out by the Human Smuggling and 
Trafficking Center, established under section 7202 
of the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act of 2004 
(8 U.S.C. 1777). 
‘‘(2) DATABASE.—The database described in 
subsection (a)(5) shall be established by combining 
all applicable data collected by each Federal depart-
ment and agency represented on the Interagency 
Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, 
consistent with the protection of sources and meth-
ods, and, to the maximum extent practicable, appli-
cable data from relevant international organizations, 
to— 
‘‘(A) improve the coordination of the col-
lection of data related to trafficking in persons 
by each agency of the United States Govern-
ment that collects such data; 
‘‘(B) promote uniformity of such data col-
lection and standards and systems related to 
such collection; 
‘‘(C) undertake a meta-analysis of patterns 
of trafficking in persons, slavery, and slave-like 
conditions to develop and analyze global trends 
in human trafficking; 
‘‘(D) identify emerging issues in human 
trafficking and establishing integrated methods 
to combat them; and 
‘‘(E) identify research priorities to respond 
to global patterns and emerging issues. 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION.—The database estab-
lished in accordance with paragraph (2) shall be 
maintained in consultation with the Director of the 
Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Per-
sons of the Department of State.
‘‘(4) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 
to the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center for 
each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011 to carry 
out the activities described in this subsection.’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking 
Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) reporting and analysis on the emer-
gence or shifting of global patterns in human 
trafficking, including data on the number of 
victims trafficked to, through, or from major 
source and destination countries, disaggregated 
by nationality, gender, and age, to the extent 
possible; and 
‘‘(F) emerging issues in human traf-
ficking.’’.
SEC. 109. PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY EF-
FORTS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PER-
SONS. 
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 
112A the following: 
‘‘SEC. 112B. PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY 
EFFORTS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PER-
SONS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF AWARD.—The President is 
authorized to establish an award, to be known as the 
‘Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combat 
Trafficking in Persons’, for extraordinary efforts to com-
bat trafficking in persons. To the maximum extent prac-
ticable, the Secretary of State shall present the award an-
nually to not more than 5 individuals or organizations, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(1) individuals who are United States citizens 
or foreign nationals; and 
‘‘(2) United States or foreign nongovernmental 
organizations. 
‘‘(b) SELECTION.—The President shall establish pro-
cedures for selecting recipients of the award authorized 
under subsection (a). 
‘‘(c) CEREMONY.—The Secretary of State shall host 
an annual ceremony for recipients of the award authorized
under subsection (a) as soon as practicable after the date 
on which the Secretary submits to Congress the report re-
quired under section 110(b)(1). The Secretary of State 
may pay the travel costs of each recipient and a guest 
of each recipient who attends the ceremony. 
‘‘(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated, for each of the fiscal 
years 2008 through 2011, such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out this section.’’. 
SEC. 110. REPORT ON ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
LABOR TO MONITOR AND COMBAT FORCED 
LABOR AND CHILD LABOR. 
(a) FINAL
REPORT; PUBLIC
AVAILABILITY
OF 
LIST.—Not later than January 15, 2010, the Secretary 
of Labor shall— 
(1) submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a final report that— 
(A) describes the implementation of section 
105(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection 
Reauthorization Act of 2005 (22 U.S.C. 
7103(b)); and 
(B) includes an initial list of goods de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(C) of such section; 
and
(2) make the list of goods described in para-
graph (1)(B) available to the public. 
(b) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 103 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act 
of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102). 
SEC. 111. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING MULTILAT-
ERAL FRAMEWORK BETWEEN LABOR EX-
PORTING AND LABOR IMPORTING COUN-
TRIES. 
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of 
State, in conjunction with the International Labour Orga-
nization, the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime 
Prevention, and other relevant international and non-
governmental organizations, should seek to establish a 
multilateral framework between labor exporting and labor 
importing countries to ensure that workers migrating be-
tween such countries are protected from trafficking in per-
sons.
TITLE 
II—COMBATING 
TRAF-
FICKING IN PERSONS IN THE 
UNITED STATES 
Subtitle A—Ensuring Availability 
of Possible Witnesses and In-
formants 
SEC. 201. PROTECTING TRAFFICKING VICTIMS AGAINST RE-
TALIATION. 
(a) T VISAS.—Section 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(T)) is 
amended— 
(1) in clause (i)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subclause (I), 
by striking ‘‘Security and the Attorney General 
jointly;’’ and inserting ‘‘Security, in consulta-
tion with the Attorney General,’’; 
(B) in subclause (I), by striking the 
comma at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
(C) in subclause (II), by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘including physical presence on 
account of the alien having been allowed entry 
into the United States for participation in in-
vestigative or judicial processes associated with 
an act or a perpetrator of trafficking;’’; 
(D) in subclause (III)—
(i) in item (aa), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
(ii) by redesignating item (bb) as item 
(cc); 
(iii) by inserting after item (aa) the 
following: 
‘‘(bb) in consultation with the Attorney 
General, as appropriate, is unable to cooperate 
with a request described in item (aa) due to 
physical or psychological trauma; or’’; and 
(iv) in item (cc), as redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘, and’’ at the end and inserting 
‘‘; and’’; and 
(E) in subclause (IV), by adding ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in clause (ii)— 
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
(B) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end and inserting ‘‘or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(III) any parent or unmarried sibling 
under 18 years of age of an alien described in 
subclause (I) or (II) who the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, in consultation with the
law enforcement officer investigating a severe 
form of trafficking, determines faces a present 
danger of retaliation as a result of the alien’s 
escape from the severe form of trafficking or 
cooperation with law enforcement.’’; and 
(3) by striking clause (iii). 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR T VISA ISSUANCE.—Section 
214(o)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(o)(7)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A) if a 
Federal’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘subpara-
graph (A) if— 
‘‘(i) a Federal’’; 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(ii) the alien is eligible for relief under section 
245(l) and is unable to obtain such relief because 
regulations have not been issued to implement such 
section; or 
‘‘(iii) the Secretary of Homeland Security deter-
mines that an extension of the period of such non-
immigrant status is warranted due to exceptional 
circumstances.’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) 
Nonimmigrant 
status 
under 
section 
101(a)(15)(T) shall be extended during the pendency of 
an application for adjustment of status under section 
245(l).’’. 
(c) CONDITIONS ON NONIMMIGRANT STATUS FOR 
CERTAIN CRIME VICTIMS.—Section 214(p)(6) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(p)(6)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The Sec-
retary of Homeland Security may extend, beyond the 4- 
year period authorized under this section, the authorized 
period of status of an alien as a nonimmigrant under sec-
tion 101(a)(15)(U) if the Secretary determines that an ex-
tension of such period is warranted due to exceptional cir-
cumstances. Such alien’s nonimmigrant status shall be ex-
tended beyond the 4-year period authorized under this sec-
tion if the alien is eligible for relief under section 245(m) 
and is unable to obtain such relief because regulations 
have not been issued to implement such section and shall 
be extended during the pendency of an application for ad-
justment of status under section 245(m). The Secretary 
may grant work authorization to any alien who has a 
pending, bona fide application for nonimmigrant status 
under section 101(a)(15)(U).’’.