S.O.L.V.E Act of 2004

Bill: 108-s-2381
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2004-05-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advertising
Age
Age discrimination
Alien labor
Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Bank records
Brain drain
Business records
Child abuse
Citizenship
Civics education
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Computer matching
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction industries
Construction workers
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Labor
Deportation
Detention of persons
Disabled
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Divorce
Draft registration
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational tests
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Employee benefit plans
Employee rights
Employers' liability
English language
Evidence (Law)
Families
Family violence
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Fingerprints
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Higher education
Hours of labor
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigrants
Income tax
Informers
Injunctions
Internet
Job creation
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Labor disputes
Labor statistics
Labor supply
Labor unions
Law
Layoffs
Legal aid
Legal fees
Local laws
Lockouts
Married people
Minimum wages
Minorities
Occupational health and safety
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Personnel records
Prosecution
Public records
Public service advertising
Racial discrimination
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Religious liberty
Residence requirements
Right of privacy
Right to travel
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Security clearances
Sex discrimination
Signs and signboards
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
State laws
Support of dependents
Tax returns
Taxation
Temporary employment
Unemployment
Unfair labor practices
Visas
Wage restitution
Wage surveys
Wages
Web sites
Welfare eligibility
Whistle blowing
Wife abuse
Witnesses
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: 
Safe, Orderly, Legal Visas and Enforcement Act (or SOLVE Act) of 2004 - Creates an earned adjustment program for undocumented aliens (and their spouses and children) who meet specified requirements. Excludes aliens granted earned adjustment from numerical visa limitations. 
 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to allow such aliens to correct social security records.
 
Creates transitional status for certain aliens who do not satisfy earned adjustment requirements. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exempt immediate relatives from the family-sponsored immigrant cap. Redefines &quot;immediate relatives&quot; to include spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents. 
 
Recaptures certain unused visa numbers.
 
Reduces the minimum income level for affidavits of support.
 
Increases to 21 the eligibility age for derivative citizenship.
 
Repeals, retroactively, barriers to reentry for unlawful presence.
 
 Redefines the H-2B nonimmigrant worker category to include aliens coming temporarily to perform short-term service or labor for nine months or less. Adds an H-1D category for aliens coming temporarily to perform service or labor other than that performed by specified nonimmigrants.
 
Requires employers seeking H-1D or H-2B workers to undertake recruitment efforts for U.S. workers and submit labor attestations. Provides for derivative status for spouses and children of H-1D and H-2B workers. Makes such workers eligible for employment-based immigrant visas and adjustment of status.
 
Authorizes stays of removal for aliens involved in workplace claims. 
 
Addresses backpay remedies and unfair immigration-related employment practices.
 
Creates a Temporary Worker Programs Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4842)
action_date: 2004-05-04
text: Introduced in Senate