Title: To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
This bill provides FY2020 supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for maintaining the projected FY2020 and FY2021 levels of operations for immigration adjudication and naturalization services, including maintaining current staffing levels and current contracts at full performance.
The bill designates the appropriations as emergency spending, which is exempt from discretionary spending limits.
The bill also requires USCIS to add a 10% surcharge to premium processing fees for employment-based petitions and applications until the additional fees collected equal the amount of supplemental appropriations provided by this bill.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7508 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7508

    To provide supplemental appropriations to U.S. Citizenship and 
             Immigration Services, and for other purposes.


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                    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 
      addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 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 Representatives 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:

                    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 Support'', for 
necessary expenses related to providing immigration adjudication and 
naturalization services, such sums as may be necessary up to 
$1,221,000,000 to maintain the projected fiscal year 2020 and 2021 
levels of operations, including maintaining current staffing levels and 
current contracts at full performance, which shall be available until 
December 31, 2020: Provided, That U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 
Services shall report every 30 days to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary, the 
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the 
Committee on Appropriations 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 requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985: Provided further, That the amount provided under this 
heading shall be available only if the President designates such amount 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 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 fiscal year 
thereafter until the total amount of the surcharges collected under 
this section equals the amount of the supplemental appropriation 
provided in this Act for ``Operations and Support'', each applicant 
paying the premium fee authorized under section 286(u) of the 
Immigration 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, including 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 enactment 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. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, including subsections (m), (n), and (u) of section 286 of the 
Immigration 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 Budget 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 designated 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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