Title: Protecting Immigrant Gold Star and Military Families Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Protecting Immigrant Gold Star and Military Families Act
This bill limits the deportability of certain relatives of current and former members of the Armed Forces.
Certain grounds of deportability shall not apply to a qualifying non-U.S. national (alien under federal law) who is (1) the spouse, widow or widower, parent, child, or sibling of a member of the Armed Forces or a veteran; or (2) eligible for a Gold Star lapel button (for certain immediate relatives of a member of the Armed Forces who died while serving). A qualifying non-U.S. national is one who (1) has not have been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, or three misdemeanors; and (2) is not a threat to national security or public safety.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8704 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8704

 To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the grounds of 
deportability for certain relatives of members of the Armed Forces and 
                   veterans, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 12, 2022

 Mr. Gallego 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 limit the grounds of 
deportability for certain relatives of members of the Armed Forces and 
                   veterans, 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 Immigrant Gold Star and 
Military Families Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITING GROUNDS OF DEPORTABILITY FOR RELATIVES OF MEMBERS OF 
              THE ARMED FORCES AND VETERANS.

    Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Alien Relatives of Members of the Armed Forces and 
Veterans.--The provisions of this section shall not apply to an alien 
who--
            ``(1) is--
                    ``(A) the spouse, widow or widower, parent, son or 
                daughter, or sibling of--
                            ``(i) a member of the Armed Forces of the 
                        United States; or
                            ``(ii) a veteran (as that term is defined 
                        in section 101 of title 38, United States 
                        Code); or
                    ``(B) eligible for the Gold Star lapel button under 
                section 1126 of title 10, United States Code;
            ``(2) has not been convicted of--
                    ``(A) a felony;
                    ``(B) a significant misdemeanor (as such term is 
                defined in section 2 of the Restoring Respect for 
                Immigrant Service in Uniform Act); or
                    ``(C) three or more misdemeanors that are not 
                significant misdemeanors, each of which occurred on a 
                different date, and arose out of separate conduct; and
            ``(3) is not otherwise a threat to national security or 
        public safety.''.
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