Title: Save Our Afghan Allies Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Save Our Afghan Allies Act
This bill requires the Department of Defense to report to Congress a plan for admitting and relocating to the United States citizens of Afghanistan under an existing program. (The program provides special immigrant visas to eligible individuals who worked for U.S. or NATO forces in Afghanistan on or after October 7, 2001.)

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2216 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2216

   To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to 
develop a plan for the relocation and admission to the United States of 
        certain citizens of Afghanistan, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2021

 Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to 
develop a plan for the relocation and admission to the United States of 
        certain citizens of Afghanistan, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Save Our Afghan Allies Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PLAN FOR RELOCATION AND ADMISSION TO THE 
              UNITED STATES OF CERTAIN CITIZENS OF AFGHANISTAN.

    (a) Plan Required.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination 
        with the Secretary of State, shall develop a plan for the 
        relocation and admission to the United States pursuant to 
        special immigrant visas of citizens of Afghanistan who are 
        aliens described in section 602(b)(2) of the Afghan Allies 
        Protection Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-8; 8 U.S.C. 1101 note).
            (2) Element.--The plan required by paragraph (1) shall 
        provide for the relocation and admission of such citizens of 
        Afghanistan before the date on which the withdrawal of the 
        United States Armed Forces from Afghanistan is completed.
    (b) Submittal to Congress.--Not later than 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
the appropriate committees of Congress the plan developed under 
subsection (a)(1).
    (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
        Foreign Relations, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
        Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
        House of Representatives.
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