‘‘(B)(ii), 
or 
(B)(iii)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘(A)(vii),
(A)(viii), (B)(ii), (B)(iii), or (B)(iv)’’.
(10) Section 204(a)(1)(J) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1154(a)(1)(J)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting
‘‘(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iii), or (vi)’’.
(11) Section 212(a)(4)(C)(i) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)(C)(i)) is amended—
(A) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’
and inserting ‘‘(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’
and inserting ‘‘, (iii), or (vi)’’.
(12) Section 212(a)(6)(A)(ii) of such Act is
amended—
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘WOMEN
AND CHILDREN’’ and inserting ‘‘FAMILY MEM-
BERS’’;
(B) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘(B)(ii),
or (B)(iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A)(vii), (A)(viii),
(B)(ii), (B)(iii), or (B)(vi)’’;
(C) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘or par-
ent or by a member of the spouse’s or parent’s
family’’ and inserting ‘‘, parent, son, or daugh-
ter or by a member of the spouse’s, parent’s,
son’s, or daughter’s family’’; and
(D) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘or par-
ent’s family residing in the same household as
the alien when the spouse or parent’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, parent’s, son’s, or daughter’s family
residing in the same household as the alien
when the spouse, parent, son, or daughter’’.
(13) Section 212(a)(9)(B)(iii)(IV) of such Act
(8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(B)(iii)(IV)) is amended by
striking ‘‘WOMEN
AND
CHILDREN’’ and inserting
‘‘FAMILY MEMBERS’’.
(14) Section 212(a)(9)(C)(ii) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(C)(ii)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (v)’’ and inserting ‘‘(v),
(vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting
‘‘(iv), or (vi)’’.
(15) Section 212(g)(1)(C) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1182(g)(1)(C)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iii), or (vi)’’.
(16) Section 212(h)(1)(C) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1182(h)(1)(C)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iii), or (vi)’’.
(17) Section 212(l)(1) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1182(l)(1)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or child’’ and inserting ‘‘,
child, son, or daughter’’.
(18) Section 237(a)(1)(H)(ii) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(ii)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘,
(iii), or (vi)’’.
(19) Section 240(c)(6)(C)(iv) of such Act (8
U.S.C. 1230(c)(6)(C)(iv)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘SPOUSES AND CHILDREN’’
and inserting ‘‘FAMILY MEMBERS’’;
(B) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘or (iv)’’
and inserting ‘‘, (iv), (vii), or (viii)’’; and
(C) in subclause (I), by striking ‘‘or (iii)’’
and inserting ‘‘, (iii), or (vi)’’.
(20) Section 240A(b)(2) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1229b(b)(2)) is amended—
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘SPOUSE
OR CHILD’’ and inserting ‘‘FAMILY MEMBERS’’;
and
(B) in subparagraph (A)(i)(I), by striking
‘‘or parent’’ and inserting ‘‘, parent, son, or
daughter’’.
(21) Section 245(a) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1255(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘(B)(ii), or
(B)(iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A)(vii), (A)(viii), (B)(ii),
(B)(iii), or (B)(vi)’’.
(22) Section 245(c) of such Act (8 U.S.C.
1255(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘(B)(ii), (B)(iii), or
(B)(iv)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A)(vii), (A)(viii), (B)(ii),
(B)(iii), (B)(iv), or (B)(vi)’’.
SEC. 11. GENERAL DISCRETIONARY WAIVERS FOR INAD-
MISSIBILITY AND REMOVAL GROUNDS.
(a) INADMISSIBILITY GROUNDS.—Section 212 of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182) is
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(s) DISCRETIONARY WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The At-
torney General, in the Attorney General’s discretion, may
waive any provision of this section (other than paragraphs
(3), (10)(A), (10)(D), and (10)(E) of subsection (a)) for
humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or when
it is otherwise in the public interest if the alien dem-
onstrates a connection between the crime or disqualifying
act and battery or extreme cruelty for any alien who quali-
fies for—
‘‘(1) classification under clause (iii), (iv), (v),
(vii), or (viii) of section 204(a)(1)(A) or clause (ii),
(iii), (iv), or (vi) of section 204(a)(1)(B); or
‘‘(2) relief under section 240A(b)(2) or under
section 244(a)(3) (as in effect before the enactment
of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996).’’.
(b) REMOVAL GROUNDS.—Section 237 of such Act
(8 U.S.C. 1227) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(d) DISCRETIONARY WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The At-
torney General, in the discretion of the Attorney General,
may waive any provision of this section (other than sub-
sections (a)(2)(D)(i) and (a)(4)) for humanitarian pur-
poses, to assure family unity, or when it is otherwise in
the public interest in the case of an alien who dem-
onstrates a connection between the crime or disqualifying
act and battery or extreme cruelty for any alien who quali-
fies for—
‘‘(1) classification under clause (iii), (iv), (v),
(vii), or (viii) of section 204(a)(1)(A) or clause (ii),
(iii), (iv), or (vi) of section 204(a)(1)(B); or
‘‘(2) relief under section 240A(b)(2) or under
section 244(a)(3) (as in effect before the enactment
of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996).’’.
SEC. 12. EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
Section 240(e)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1229a(e)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘bat-
tery or extreme cruelty of the alien or any child or parent
of the alien or’’ after ‘‘exceptional circumstances (such
as’’.
SEC. 13. ACCESS TO VAWA FOR VISA WAIVER APPLICANTS.
Section 217(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(b)(2)) is amended by inserting after
‘‘asylum,’’ the following: ‘‘or for relief under clause (iii),
(iv), (v), (vii), or (viii) of section 204(a)(1)(A), clause (ii),
(iii), (iv), or (vi) of section 204(a)(1)(B), under section
240A(b)(2), or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect before
the enactment of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Im-
migrant Responsibility Act of 1996)’’.
SEC. 14. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONCERNING VIO-
LENCE AGAINST WOMEN FUNDING.
(a) OMNIBUS CRIME CONTROL AND SAFE STREETS
ACT OF 1968.—Section 2002 of the Omnibus Crime Con-
trol and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg–
1) is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(i) REPORT ON SERVICES FOR UNDERSERVED POP-
ULATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Violence Against
Women Office in the Department of Justice shall
submit to Congress, not later than one year after
the date of the enactment of this subsection and an-
nually thereafter, a report that contains the informa-
tion described in paragraphs (2) and (3).
‘‘(2) SECTION 2001 GRANTS.—The information
described in this paragraph is information provided
to the Violence Against Women Office by each State
grantee for grants to combat violence against women
under section 2001 concerning the following:
‘‘(A) The number of grants, amount of
funds, and percentage of funds awarded under
such section to serve underserved populations in
the State.
‘‘(B) The percentage of each underserved
population in the demographic make up of each
State compared to the amount of funding under
such section aimed at addressing the needs of
that underserved population.
‘‘(C) The extent to which the grants pro-
vide services to underserved populations and are
awarded to programs with experience and his-
tory of working with underserved populations of
battered women or sexual assault victims, to
programs that have bilingual or bicultural staff,
to provide interpreters in civil protection order
cases, and to collaborations between domestic
violence or sexual assault programs and pro-
grams experienced in serving particular under-
served populations and to other grantees.
‘‘(D) The names of nonprofit, nongovern-
mental victim service organizations with experi-
ence serving various underserved populations of
battered women and sexual assault or stalking
victims and the extent to which each named or-
ganization was consulted in the development of
the state plan under section 2002(c)(2).
‘‘(3) OTHER GRANT PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—With regard to grants
under each of the grant programs described in
subparagraph (B), the information described in
this paragraph is the following:
‘‘(i) The number of grants, amount of
funds, and percentage of funding from the
grant program that are used to serve un-
derserved populations broken down by
State.
‘‘(ii) The extent to which grants under
the program provide services to under-
served populations and are awarded to pro-
grams with experience and history of work-
ing with underserved populations of bat-
tered women or sexual assault victims, to
programs that have bilingual or bicultural
staff, to provide interpreters in civil protec-
tion order cases, and to collaborations be-
tween domestic violence or sexual assault
programs and programs experienced in
serving particular underserved populations
and to other grantees.
‘‘(B) GRANT
PROGRAMS
COVERED.—The
grant programs described in this subparagraph
are the following grant programs administered
by the Violence Against Women Office of the
Department of Justice:
‘‘(i) The program of grants to encour-
age arrest under section 2101.
‘‘(ii) The program of rural domestic
violence and child abuse enforcement as-
sistance grants under section 40295(a)(2)
of the Violence Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law
103–322; 42 U.S.C. 13971(a)(2)).
‘‘(iii) The program of civil legal assist-
ance grants under title I of the Depart-
ment of Justice Appropriations Act of
1999.
‘‘(iv) The program of campus domes-
tic violence grants under section 826 of the
Higher Education Amendment Act of 1998
(Public Law 1045–244; 20 U.S.C. 1152).
‘‘(v) Any other grant program that
combats violence against women and is ad-
ministered by such Office.
‘‘(vi) The Attorney General shall es-
tablish guidelines for the collection and re-
porting of this data.’’.
‘‘(4) GUIDELINES.—The Attorney General shall
establish guidelines for the collection and reporting
of information under this subsection.’’.
(b) FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SERVICES
ACT.—
(1) Section 303(a)(2)(C) of the Family Violence
Prevention 
and 
Services 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C.
10402(c)(2)(C)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘ethnic, racial, cultural,
language diversity or geographic isolation’’ and
inserting ‘‘geographic location (such as rural
isolation), underserved racial and ethnic popu-
lations, populations underserved because of spe-
cial needs (such as language barriers, disabil-
ities, alienage status, sexual orientation, or
age), and any other populations determined to
be underserved in consultation with the Sec-
retary’’.
(2) Section 311(a)(4) of such Act (42 U.S. C.
10410(a)(4)) is amended by striking ‘‘underserved
racial, ethnic or language-minority populations’’ and
inserting ‘‘underserved populations described in sec-
tion 303(a)(2)(C)’’.
(3) Section 303(a)(4) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
10410(a)(4)) is amended by inserting after the first
sentence the following: ‘‘Each performance report
shall include (A) a description of the activities un-
dertaken to serve underserved populations in the
State described in section 303(a)(2)(C), (B) details
about the number of grants, the amount of funds
and the percentage of the State’s Family Violence
Prevention and Services Act funding that went to
serve such underserved populations, (C) a descrip-
tion of the underserved populations who benefited
from the programs funded including the demo-
graphics of each underserved population served, (D)
the names of the programs that received such fund-
ing, (E) the involvement of programs serving under-
served populations in the procedures described in
paragraph (2)(C), and (F) a discussion of the effec-
tiveness of efforts in the State to reach underserved
populations. The Secretary shall establish guidelines
for the collection and reporting of information de-
scribed in the previous sentence.’’.
(c) REPORTS
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall submit to Congress, not
later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this
Act and annually thereafter, a report based on information
submitted by each State under section 303(a)(4) of the
Family Violence Prevention and Services Act that de-
scribes the extent to which States are serving underserved
populations (as the term is used in section 303(A)(2)(C)
of such Act) with funds provided under such Act. The re-
port shall also include information about the grants
awarded from funds under such Act by the Secretary to
programs that serve the needs of such underserved popu-
lations.
SEC. 15. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN BATTERED
SPOUSES AND CHILDREN OF ASYLEES.
Section 209(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)(3)) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after ‘‘(3)’’; and
(2) by inserting before the comma at the end
the following: ‘‘, or (B) is or was the spouse or child
of a refugee within the meaning of section
101(a)(42)(A) and is or was battered or subjected to
extreme cruelty by such refugee, regardless of
whether the relationship with such refugee has been
terminated’’.
SEC. 16. EFFECTIVE DATES.
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect
on the date of the enactment of this Act, except that—
(1) the amendments made by sections 8, 13,
and 5 shall be effective as included in the enactment
of Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (division B
of Public Law 106–386); and
(2) the amendments made by section 12 shall
be effective as included in the enactment of the Ille-
gal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsi-
bility Act of 1996.
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