Title: Protecting America from IRGC Terrorists Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protecting America from IRGC Terrorists Act
This bill adds questions to certain visa, permanent residence, and naturalization applications concerning an applicant's association with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8420 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8420

To direct the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security 
 to add questions to visa application forms, applications to register 
      permanent residence or adjust status, and applications for 
 naturalization, related to affiliation with the Islamic Revolutionary 
    Guards Corps, including any Basij organizations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2022

 Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Waltz, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Ms. 
Tenney, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Steube, Mrs. McClain, Mr. 
 Murphy of North Carolina, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Cline, 
 Mr. Pfluger, Mrs. Boebert, and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security 
 to add questions to visa application forms, applications to register 
      permanent residence or adjust status, and applications for 
 naturalization, related to affiliation with the Islamic Revolutionary 
    Guards Corps, including any Basij organizations, 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 ``Protecting America from IRGC 
Terrorists Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON VISA APPLICATION FORMS.

    (a) Nonimmigrant and Immigrant Visa Application Forms.--Not later 
than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State shall revise the nonimmigrant and immigrant visa application 
forms to include, for an alien who indicates on such application that 
the alien's place of birth or country of origin is Iran, questions on 
the following:
            (1) Whether the alien has ever served in an official or 
        unofficial capacity in the executive, parliamentary, or 
        judicial branches of the Iranian Government, or the Office of 
        the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including 
        as an appointee, advisor, or assistant.
            (2) In the case that the answer to the question posed 
        pursuant to paragraph (1) is yes, require an answer to each of 
        the following:
                    (A) Whether the alien has ever performed any law 
                enforcement or national security functions for or on 
                behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Islamic Republic 
                of Iran, including the police, or its special units, or 
                any state-sponsored vigilante organizations, such as 
                Ansar-e Hezbollah.
                    (B) Whether the alien has ever rendered a financial 
                transaction or transactions, of any financial service 
                to or for, or on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran 
                in violation of United States sanctions.
                    (C) Whether the alien has ever acquired or 
                attempted to acquire any good, service, or technology 
                subject to United States export control restrictions to 
                or for the Islamic Republic of Iran, including--
                            (i) sections 742.8 and 746.7 of title 15, 
                        Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor 
                        regulations); and
                            (ii) sections 560.204 and 560.205 of title 
                        31, Code of Federal Regulations (or any 
                        successor regulations).
            (3) Whether the alien is or has been a member of the 
        Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (in this section, referred to 
        as ``IRGC'') or any of its branches, including the IRGC 
        Aerospace Force, its Space Command or UAV Command subunits, the 
        IRGC Navy, the IRGC Ground Force, the IRGC Quds Force, the IRGC 
        Intelligence Organization, the IRGC Intelligence Protection 
        Organization, the IRGC Cyber-Defense Command, the IRGC Ansar 
        al-Mahdi Protection Unit, the IRGC Vali-e Amr Unit, IRGC 
        provincial commands, the Khatam al-Anbiya Construction 
        Headquarters, the IRGC Cooperative Foundation, the Basij 
        Resistance Force or any of its subunits, such as the Imam 
        Hossein Brigades or the Imam Ali Brigades, or the Basij 
        Cooperative Foundation.
            (4) In the case that the answer to the question posed 
        pursuant to paragraph (3) is yes, require an answer to each of 
        the following:
                    (A) Whether the alien has been a conscript for the 
                IRGC.
                    (B) Whether the alien has been deployed abroad by 
                the IRGC or any of its branches or affiliates described 
                in paragraph (3).
                    (C) Whether the alien has retained an active-duty 
                status with the IRGC or any of its branches or 
                affiliates described in paragraph (3).
                    (D) Whether the alien has participated in 
                recruiting members or activists on behalf of the IRGC 
                or any of its branches or affiliates described in 
                paragraph (3).
                    (E) Whether the alien has been paid, aside from 
                conscription, for service rendered to the IRGC or any 
                of its branches or affiliates described in paragraph 
                (3).

SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON APPLICATION TO REGISTER 
              PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR ADJUST STATUS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall include in an application to 
register permanent residence or adjust status a question on whether the 
alien has ever been a member of, or in any way associated with, the 
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, its armed or unarmed branches, 
subunits or subgroups, or any other Iranian state-sponsored 
paramilitary, vigilante or voluntary groups.

SEC. 4. ADDITIONAL WRITTEN QUESTIONS ON APPLICATION FOR NATURALIZATION.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall include in an application for 
naturalization a question on whether the alien has ever been a member 
of, or in any way associated with, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards 
Corps, its armed or unarmed branches, subunits or subgroups, or any 
other Iranian state-sponsored paramilitary, vigilante or voluntary 
groups.
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