(A) previously issued by the Secretary and 
described in subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) of 
section 274A(b)(1) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(b)(1)); and 
(B) lost, stolen, or destroyed due to such 
disaster. 
(2) SUBSTITUTE.—Where replacement of a doc-
ument described in paragraph (1) is not feasible, the 
Secretary of Homeland Security may provide to a 
displaced person described in such paragraph a tem-
porary substitute document. 
(b) PROCEDURES FOR DOCUMENT REPLACEMENT.— 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that, 
when the Secretary replaces (or provides a temporary sub-
stitute for) a document relating to an alien and described 
in subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) of section 274A(b)(1) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1324a(b)(1)) that was lost, stolen, or destroyed due to a 
specified hurricane disaster, the Secretary— 
(1) authenticates information using biometric 
identifiers contained in records of the Department of 
Homeland Security; and 
(2) annotates the records in U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services information systems in 
such a way as to indicate that the replacement or
substitute document was issued in the absence of an 
original due to such disaster. 
(c) WAIVER OF FEES FOR DATABASE ACCESS.— 
(1) U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERV-
ICES.—The Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services is authorized to waive fees and costs 
associated with a request, made by a person or agen-
cy described in paragraph (2), for use of the 
Verification Information System database associated 
with the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitle-
ments Program in order to verify immigration status 
or employment eligibility with respect to a displaced 
person described in subsection (a)(1). 
(2) REQUESTING PERSONS.—The persons de-
scribed in this paragraph are as follows: 
(A) Employers. 
(B) State or local government agencies. 
(C) The American National Red Cross. 
(D) Organizations described in section 
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of 
such Code whose mission is to assist displaced 
persons described in subsection (a)(1).
SEC. 11. AGE-OUT PROTECTIONS. 
In administering Federal immigration laws, the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security may grant any application 
or benefit notwithstanding the applicant or beneficiary (in-
cluding a derivative beneficiary of a principal applicant or 
beneficiary) reaching an age that would render the appli-
cant or beneficiary ineligible for the relief or benefit 
sought, if the failure to meet the age requirement is a con-
sequence of a specified hurricane disaster. 
SEC. 12. EVIDENCE OF DEATH, DISABILITY, OR LOSS OF EM-
PLOYMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity shall establish appropriate standards for evidence 
demonstrating, for purposes of this Act, that any of the 
following occurred as a consequence of a specified hurri-
cane disaster. 
(1) Death. 
(2) Disability. 
(3) Loss of employment due to physical damage 
to, or destruction of, a business. 
(b) DEATH CERTIFICATES.—The standards estab-
lished under subsection (a) shall authorize the Secretary 
to make a determination of death in the absence of a death 
certificate, where appropriate. 
(c) AFFIDAVIT OF SURVIVING SPOUSE.—For pur-
poses of a benefit under section 2, or subsection (b) or
(c) of section 4, that is conditioned on the beneficiary hav-
ing been the spouse of an individual who died as a con-
sequence of a specified hurricane disaster, the standards 
established under subsection (a) shall authorize the Sec-
retary to make a determination of death based on the 
sworn affidavit of such surviving spouse, in the absence 
of evidence to the contrary. 
SEC. 13. WAIVER OF REGULATIONS. 
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall carry out 
this Act as expeditiously as possible. The Secretary of 
Homeland Security is not required to promulgate regula-
tions prior to implementing this Act. 
SEC. 14. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) APPLICATION
OF IMMIGRATION
AND NATION-
ALITY ACT PROVISIONS.—Except as otherwise specifically 
provided in this Act, the definitions used in the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (excluding the definitions appli-
cable exclusively to title III of such Act) shall apply in 
the administration of this Act. 
(b) SPECIFIED HURRICANE DISASTER.—For pur-
poses of this Act, the term ‘‘specified hurricane disaster’’ 
means any major disaster resulting from Hurricane 
Katrina declared by the President under the Robert T.