I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7508 
To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 9, 2020 
Mr. CLEAVER (for himself and Mr. FORTENBERRY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addi-
tion to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, for the following 
purpose, namely: 
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING, AND SERVICES 
U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES 
OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations and Sup-
port’’, for necessary expenses related to providing immi-
gration adjudication and naturalization services, such 
sums as may be necessary up to $1,221,000,000 to main-
tain the projected fiscal year 2020 and 2021 levels of oper-
ations, including maintaining current staffing levels and 
current contracts at full performance, which shall be avail-
able until December 31, 2020: Provided, That U.S. Citi-
zenship and Immigration Services shall report every 30 
days to the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee 
on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on the Judiciary, the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate on obligations and expenditures 
from the amount provided under this heading: Provided 
further, That the amount provided under this heading is 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: 
Provided further, That the amount provided under this 
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heading shall be available only if the President designates 
such amount as being for an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of such Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. (a) For fiscal year 2020, and for each fis-
cal year thereafter until the total amount of the sur-
charges collected under this section equals the amount of 
the supplemental appropriation provided in this Act for 
‘‘Operations and Support’’, each applicant paying the pre-
mium fee authorized under section 286(u) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(u)) shall pay a 
surcharge in addition to such fee. The surcharge shall 
equal 10 percent of such premium fee, rounded up to the 
nearest dollar. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in-
cluding the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 551 
et seq.) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 
3501 et seq.), beginning 60 days after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall begin collecting the surcharge described in subsection 
(a) and shall reject any petition or application submitted 
without payment for such surcharge, if applicable. Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, including sub-
sections (m), (n), and (u) of section 286 of the Immigra-
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tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356), the Secretary 
shall deposit all surcharges collected under this section 
into the general fund of the Treasury. 
(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the amounts collected under this section are designated 
by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, and such 
amounts shall only be collected if the President designates 
such amounts as an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A)(i). 
(2) The budgetary effects of this section are des-
ignated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 
U.S.C. 933(g)). 
(3) In the Senate, this section is designated as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. 
Con. Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution 
on the budget for fiscal year 2018. 
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