Title: Family Reunification Act of 2019
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Family Reunification Act of 2019
This bill revives an expired program that allows qualified aliens with certain familial or employment ties to the United States to apply for lawful permanent resident status. The deadline for applying for such status shall be five years after the enactment of this bill, where the deadline under current law was April 30, 2001. (Generally, a qualifying alien under the program must be one who (1) entered the United States without inspection or falls into other specified categories, (2) is the beneficiary of a petition for lawful permanent status based on family sponsorship or for performing certain labor where there are not sufficient workers available for such labor, and (3) was physically present in the United States on December 21, 2000.)
The bill also prohibits the removal of an alien who (1) has a pending petition for lawful permanent status based on being the spouse or child of a U.S. citizen, and (2) is prima facie eligible for lawful permanent status.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3312 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3312

    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for an 
 extension of the application period for certain aliens present in the 
                United States for adjustment of status.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 2019

  Mr. Espaillat (for himself and Mr. Vargas) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for an 
 extension of the application period for certain aliens present in the 
                United States for adjustment of status.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Reunification Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE APPLICATION PERIOD FOR CERTAIN ALIENS PRESENT 
              IN THE UNITED STATES FOR ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS.

    Section 245(i)(1)(B)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1255(i)(1)(B)(i)) is amended by striking ``or before April 30, 
2001'' and inserting the following: ``or after the date that is not 
later than 5 years after the date of enactment of the Family 
Reunification Act of 2019''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON REMOVAL.

    Section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(n) An alien who is the beneficiary (including a spouse or child 
of the principal alien, if eligible to receive a visa under section 
203(d)) of a petition for classification under section 204 that was 
filed with the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and 
that is prima facie eligible for approval may not be removed while such 
petition or application is being adjudicated or appealed.''.
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