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(b) INFORMATION PAMPHLET.—The information pam-
phlet developed under subsection (a) shall include informa-
tion on the following: 
(1) The K nonimmigrant visa application proc-
ess and the marriage-based immigration process, in-
cluding conditional residence and adjustment of sta-
tus. 
(2) The illegality of domestic violence, sexual as-
sault, and child abuse in the United States and the 
dynamics of domestic violence. 
(3) Domestic violence and sexual assault services 
in the United States, including the National Domestic 
Violence Hotline and the National Sexual Assault 
Hotline. 
(4) The legal rights of immigrant victims of 
abuse and other crimes in immigration, criminal jus-
tice, family law, and other matters. 
(5) The obligations of parents to provide child 
support for children. 
(6) Marriage fraud under United States immi-
gration laws and the penalties for committing such 
fraud. 
(7) A warning concerning the potential use of K 
nonimmigrant visas by individuals who have a his-
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tory of committing domestic violence, sexual assault, 
or child abuse. 
(c) SUMMARIES.—The Secretary of Homeland Secu-
rity, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Sec-
retary of State, shall develop summaries of the pamphlet 
developed under subsection (a) that shall be used by con-
sular officers when reviewing the pamphlet in interviews 
under section (e)(2). 
(d) TRANSLATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to best serve the lan-
guage groups having the greatest concentration of K 
nonimmigrant visa applicants, the information pam-
phlet under subsection (b) shall, subject to paragraph 
(2), be translated by the Secretary of State into the 
following languages: Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Viet-
namese, Chinese, Ukrainian, Thai, Korean, Polish, 
Japanese, French, Arabic, Portuguese, and Hindi. 
(2) REVISION.—Every two years, the Secretary 
of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attor-
ney General and the Secretary of State, shall deter-
mine the specific languages into which the informa-
tion pamphlet is translated based on the languages 
spoken by the greatest concentrations of K non-
immigrant visa applicants.
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(e) AVAILABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION.—The informa-
tion pamphlet developed under subsection (a) shall be made 
available and distributed as follows: 
(1) MAILINGS TO K NONIMMIGRANT VISA APPLI-
CANTS.— 
(A) The pamphlet shall be mailed by the 
Secretary of State to each applicant for a K 
nonimmigrant visa at the same time that the in-
struction packet regarding the visa application 
process is mailed to such applicant. The pam-
phlet so mailed shall be in the primary language 
of the applicant, or in English if no translation 
into the applicant’s primary language is avail-
able. 
(B) In addition, in the case of an applicant 
for 
a 
nonimmigrant 
visa 
under 
section 
101(a)(15)(K)(i) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(K)(i)) the 
Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide to 
the Secretary of State, for inclusion in the mail-
ing under subparagraph (A), a copy of the peti-
tion submitted by the petitioner for such appli-
cant under section 214(d) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(d)).
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(C) The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall provide to the Secretary of State any 
criminal background information the Secretary 
of Homeland Security possesses with respect to a 
petitioner under such section 214(d). The Sec-
retary of State, in turn, shall share any such 
criminal background information that is in the 
public record with the nonimmigrant visa appli-
cant who is the beneficiary of the petition. The 
visa applicant shall be informed that such crimi-
nal background information is based on avail-
able records and may not be complete. The Sec-
retary of State also shall provide for the disclo-
sure of such criminal background information to 
the visa applicant at the consular interview in 
the primary language of the visa applicant. 
Nothing in this subparagraph shall be construed 
to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security 
to conduct any new or additional criminal back-
ground check that is not otherwise conducted in 
the course of adjudicating such petitions. 
(2) CONSULAR INTERVIEWS.—The pamphlet shall 
be distributed directly to K nonimmigrant visa appli-
cants at all consular interviews for such visas. The 
consular officer conducting the visa interview shall re-
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view the pamphlet and summary with the applicant 
orally in the applicant’s primary language, in addi-
tion to distributing the pamphlet to the applicant in 
English. 
(3) CONSULAR ACCESS.—The pamphlet shall be 
made available to the public at all consular posts. 
Summaries of the pamphlets under subsection (c) 
shall be made available to foreign service officers at 
all consular posts. 
(4) 
POSTING
ON
STATE
DEPARTMENT 
WEBSITE.—The pamphlet shall be posted on the 
website of the Department of State as well as on the 
websites of all consular posts processing K non-
immigrant visa applications. 
(f) K NONIMMIGRANT DEFINED.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘K nonimmigrant visa’’ means a non-
immigrant visa under clause (i) or (ii) of section 
101(a)(15)(K) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(K)). 
SEC. 923. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security such sums as may be nec-
essary to provide for adjudication of petitions and adjust-
ment applications of VAWA petitioners (as defined in sec-
tion 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act,
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as added by section 911(a)) and of aliens seeking status 
as nonimmigrants under subparagraph (T) or (U) of sec-
tion 101(a)(15) of such Act. 
Subtitle C—Miscellaneous 
Provisions 
SEC. 931. REMOVING 2 YEAR CUSTODY AND RESIDENCY RE-
QUIREMENT FOR BATTERED ADOPTED CHIL-
DREN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(b)(1)(E)(i) of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(E)(i)) 
is amended by inserting after ‘‘at least two years’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘or if the child has been battered or subject to ex-
treme cruelty by the adopting parent or by a family mem-
ber of the adopting parent residing in the same household’’. 
(b) CONFORMING NATURALIZATION AMENDMENT.— 
Section 320(a)(3) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1431(a)(3)) is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘or the child is residing in the United States pursu-
ant to a lawful admission for permanent residence and has 
been battered or subject to extreme cruelty by the citizen 
parent or by a family member of the citizen parent residing 
in the same household ’’ 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this