Title: Protect Patriot Spouses Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protect Patriot Spouses Act
This bill makes certain alien military spouses eligible for adjustment to permanent residence status.
An eligible alien shall be an individual who is or was a spouse of a U.S. citizen who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, either on active duty or in a reserve component. If the U.S. citizen has been discharged from the Armed Forces, such discharge must be under honorable conditions.
Certain factors that would otherwise make an alien inadmissible, such as having entered the United States without being admitted, shall not make such an alien spouse ineligible for permanent residence status under the bill. The Department of Homeland Security may also waive certain factors that would otherwise make an alien inadmissible, such as having misrepresented a material fact to secure a visa, if the alien does not pose a threat to the public and has not committed any crimes that are unrelated to immigration status.


[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 557 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 557

 To render certain military spouses eligible for adjustment of status.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2019

   Mr. Soto (for himself, Mr. Sablan, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. 
  Norton, and Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To render certain military spouses eligible 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 ``Protect Patriot Spouses Act''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR CERTAIN MILITARY SPOUSES.

    Section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(n)(1) In applying this section to an alien described in 
paragraph (2)--
            ``(A) such alien shall be deemed, for purposes of 
        subsection (a), to have been inspected and admitted into the 
        United States; and
            ``(B) in determining the alien's admissibility as an 
        immigrant--
                    ``(i) paragraphs (6)(A), (7)(A), and (9)(B) of 
                section 212(a) shall not apply; and
                    ``(ii) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the 
                discretion of the Secretary, may waive the application 
                of paragraphs (6)(C), (9)(A), and (9)(C) of section 
                212(a) if the alien establishes to the satisfaction of 
                the Secretary that the alien does not pose a threat to 
                the public and has not committed any criminal offenses 
                in violation of Federal or State law unrelated to the 
                alien's status.
    ``(2) An alien is described in this paragraph if the alien--
            ``(A) is or was the spouse of a United States citizen who--
                    ``(i) is or was serving on active duty in the 
                United States Armed Forces or in a reserve component of 
                the United States Armed Forces; and
                    ``(ii) if discharged or released from service in 
                the Armed Forces, was discharged or released under 
                honorable conditions; and
            ``(B) is the beneficiary of a petition for classification 
        under section 204(a)(1)(A) as an immediate relative (as defined 
        in section 201(b)) by reason of the marriage to such 
        citizen.''.
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