Title: Exception for Certain Bars to Admissibility Relating to Previous Unlawful Entry as Children Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Exception for Certain Bars to Admissibility Relating to Previous Unlawful Entry as Children Act
This bill expands an exception to a provision that bars the admission of certain non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who unlawfully reenter (or attempt to unlawfully reenter) the United States after being ordered removed.
Currently, the bar to admission does not apply to such a non-U.S. national if the individual (1) last departed from the United States more than 10 years before the attempt to reenter the United States, and (2) has received consent from the Department of Homeland Security to reapply for admission. This bill adds another exception for individuals who last departed from the United States before becoming 11 years old.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9261 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9261

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide an exception 
for certain bars to inadmissibility related to previous unlawful entry 
                  as children, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 3, 2022

Mr. Green of Texas 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 an exception 
for certain bars to inadmissibility related to previous unlawful entry 
                  as children, 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 ``Exception for Certain Bars to 
Admissibility Relating to Previous Unlawful Entry as Children Act''.

SEC. 2. EXCEPTION FOR CERTAIN BARS TO ADMISSIBILITY RELATING TO 
              PREVIOUS UNLAWFUL ENTRY AS CHILDREN ACT.

    Clause (ii) of section 212(a)(9)(C) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(C)) is amended to read as follows:
                            ``(ii) Exceptions.--Clause (i) shall not 
                        apply to an alien--
                                    ``(I) seeking admission more than 
                                10 years after the date of the alien's 
                                last departure from the United States 
                                if, prior to the alien's reembarkation 
                                at a place outside the United States or 
                                attempt to be readmitted from a foreign 
                                contiguous territory, the Secretary of 
                                Homeland Security has consented to the 
                                alien's reapplying for admission; or
                                    ``(II) the date of whose last 
                                departure from the United States 
                                occurred prior to the alien attaining 
                                the age of 11 years old.''.
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