I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6870 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the President 
to set a minimum annual goal for the number of refugees to be admitted, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2025 
Ms. LOFGREN (for herself, Mr. MOULTON, Ms. ANSARI, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. NOR-
TON, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. 
LIEU, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, and Ms. CLARKE of New 
York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require 
the President to set a minimum annual goal for the 
number of refugees to be admitted, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Guaranteed Refugee 
Admission Ceiling Enhancement Act’’ or the ‘‘GRACE 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ADMISSION OF REFUGEES. 
Section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1157) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in sub-
section (b), the number of refugees who may be ad-
mitted under this section in any fiscal year shall be 
the sum of— 
‘‘(A) such number as the President deter-
mines is justified by humanitarian concerns or 
otherwise in the national interest, which shall 
be not fewer than 125,000; and 
‘‘(B) such number as the President deter-
mines shall be admitted to the United States 
through community or private sponsorship, by 
which community groups and private sponsors 
provide to a refugee and the immediate relatives 
or beneficiaries of the refugee initial reception 
and placement services similar to services pro-
vided by domestic resettlement agencies and 
local affiliates, in lieu of services typically pro-
vided by domestic resettlement agencies and 
local affiliates. 
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‘‘(2) ABSENCE
OF
DETERMINATION.—If the 
President does not issue a determination under 
paragraph (1) before the beginning of a fiscal year, 
the number of refugees who may be admitted in that 
fiscal year under this section shall be 125,000.’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 
(4) as paragraphs (4) and (7), respectively; 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) NUMERICAL GOALS.—Each officer of the 
Federal Government responsible for refugee admis-
sions or refugee resettlement shall treat as the nu-
merical goals for refugee admissions under this sec-
tion for the applicable fiscal year— 
‘‘(A)(i) a determination under paragraph 
(1); or 
‘‘(ii) in the absence of a determination 
under paragraph (1), the number under para-
graph (2); and 
‘‘(B) a determination under subsection 
(b).’’; and 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (4), as 
redesignated, the following: 
‘‘(5) 
CONSIDERATION
OF
RESETTLEMENT 
NEEDS.—In making a determination under para-
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graph (1), the President shall consider the number 
of refugees who are in need of resettlement in a 
third country, as determined by the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Refugees in the most re-
cently published projected global resettlement needs 
report. 
‘‘(6) REGIONAL ALLOCATIONS.—The President 
shall determine regional allocations for admissions 
under this subsection, which shall— 
‘‘(A)(i) reflect the projected needs identi-
fied by the United Nations High Commissioner 
for Refugees in the projected global resettle-
ment needs report for the calendar year begin-
ning immediately after the beginning of the ap-
plicable fiscal year; or 
‘‘(ii) include an assessment by the Sec-
retary of State detailing the humanitarian and 
national interest justifications for prioritizing 
refugee admissions from 1 or more regions; and 
‘‘(B) include an unallocated reserve that 
the Secretary of State, after notifying the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of 
Representatives, may use for 1 or more regions 
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in which the need for additional refugee admis-
sions arises.’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) QUARTERLY
PUBLIC
REPORTS
ON
ADMIS-
SIONS.—Not later than 15 days after the last day of each 
quarter, the President shall submit to the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Ju-
diciary of the House of Representatives, and publish on 
a publicly accessible website, a report that includes the 
following: 
‘‘(1) The number of refugees admitted to the 
United States during the preceding quarter. 
‘‘(2) The number of refugees admitted to the 
United States during the preceding quarter, ex-
pressed as a percentage of the number of refugees 
authorized to be admitted in accordance with the de-
terminations under subsections (a) and (b) for the 
applicable fiscal year. 
‘‘(3) The cumulative number of refugees admit-
ted to the United States during the applicable fiscal 
year, as of the last day of the preceding quarter. 
‘‘(4) The number of refugees to be admitted to 
the United States during the remainder of the appli-
cable fiscal year so as to achieve the numerical goals 
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set forth in the determinations under subsections (a) 
and (b) for such fiscal year. 
‘‘(5) The number of refugees from each region 
admitted to the United States during the preceding 
quarter, expressed as a percentage of the allocation 
for each region under subsection (a)(6) for the appli-
cable fiscal year. 
‘‘(h) QUARTERLY REPORTS ON PROCESSING.—Not 
later than 15 days after the last day of each quarter, the 
President shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives a report that includes the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) 
ALIENS
WITH
ENHANCED
SECURITY 
CHECKS.— 
‘‘(A) The number of aliens, by nationality, 
for whom an enhanced security check has been 
requested who were security-cleared during the 
preceding quarter, expressed as a percentage of 
all cases successfully adjudicated, approved, and 
security-cleared by the Director of U.S. Citizen-
ship and Immigration Services in the applicable 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(B) The number of aliens, by nationality, 
for whom an enhanced security check has been 
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requested who were admitted to the United 
States during the preceding quarter. 
‘‘(2) CIRCUIT RIDES.— 
‘‘(A) For the preceding quarter— 
‘‘(i) the number of Refugee Corps of-
ficers deployed on circuit rides, expressed 
as a percentage of the overall number of 
Refugee Corps officers; 
‘‘(ii) the number of individuals inter-
viewed— 
‘‘(I) on each circuit ride; and 
‘‘(II) at each circuit ride location; 
‘‘(iii) the number of circuit rides; 
‘‘(iv) for each circuit ride— 
‘‘(I) the duration of the circuit 
ride; 
‘‘(II) the average number of 
interviews conducted daily on the cir-
cuit ride; and 
‘‘(III) the percentages of inter-
views conducted for— 
‘‘(aa) individuals who re-
quire an enhanced security check; 
and 
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‘‘(bb) individuals who do not 
require an enhanced security 
check; and 
‘‘(v) the number of interviews com-
pleted by video teleconferencing. 
‘‘(B) For the subsequent quarter— 
‘‘(i) the number of circuit rides sched-
uled; and 
‘‘(ii) the number of circuit rides 
planned. 
‘‘(3) PROCESSING.—For the preceding quar-
ter— 
‘‘(A) the average number of days be-
tween— 
‘‘(i) the date on which an individual is 
identified by the United States Govern-
ment as a refugee; and 
‘‘(ii) the date on which such individual 
is interviewed by the Secretary of Home-
land Security; 
‘‘(B) the average number of days be-
tween— 
‘‘(i) the date on which an individual 
identified by the United States Govern-
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ment as a refugee is interviewed by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security; and 
‘‘(ii) the date on which such individual 
is admitted to the United States; and 
‘‘(C) with respect to individuals identified 
by the United States Government as refugees 
who have been interviewed by the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, the approval, denial, and 
hold rates for the applications for admission of 
such individuals, by nationality. 
‘‘(4) PLAN AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.—If 
the number of refugees admitted during the pre-
ceding quarter is less than 25 percent of the number 
of refugees authorized to be admitted in accordance 
with the determinations under subsections (a) and 
(b) for the applicable fiscal year, the President shall 
submit— 
‘‘(A) an assessment of country conditions 
and emergency humanitarian circumstances 
that contributed to the number of refugees ad-
mitted; 
‘‘(B) a plan that describes the procedural 
or personnel changes necessary to ensure the 
admission of the number of refugees authorized 
to be admitted to the United States in accord-
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ance with determinations under subsections (a) 
and (b), including a projection of the number of 
refugees to be admitted to the United States 
each month so as to achieve the numerical goals 
set forth in such determinations; and 
‘‘(C) any additional information relating to 
the pace of refugee admissions, as determined 
by the President. 
‘‘(5) ENHANCED SECURITY CHECK DEFINED.— 
In this subsection, the term ‘enhanced security 
check’ means any evaluation process to investigate 
national security concerns, including terrorism, espi-
onage, sabotage, or the illegal transfer of goods, 
technology, or sensitive information, including— 
‘‘(A) any process within U.S. Citizenship 
and Immigration Services for handling cases 
with national security concerns; 
‘‘(B) any interagency check requested by 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services dur-
ing the adjudication process to investigate na-
tional security concerns; 
‘‘(C) any additional vetting or review of 
applicants from a country that is a state spon-
sor of terrorism or a country with full or partial 
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suspension of entry into the United States 
under this Act; and 
‘‘(D) any process to screen applicant data 
against publicly available social media for na-
tional security purposes. 
‘‘(i) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion may be construed— 
‘‘(1) to inhibit the expeditious processing of ref-
ugee and asylum applications; or 
‘‘(2) to restrict the authority of the Secretary of 
Homeland Security to admit aliens to the United 
States under any other Act.’’. 
Æ 
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