Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3188
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2005-06-30 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Alien labor
Aliens
Block grants
Cash welfare block grants
Child abuse
Child labor
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Custody of children
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice
Department of State
Deportation
Economics and Public Finance
Ethics
Families
Family violence
Federal aid to law enforcement
Food stamps
Forced labor
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Immigrants
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal aid
Legal services
Married people
Medicaid
Naturalization
Police training
Prostitution
Rape
Residence requirements
Skilled labor
Slavery
Social Welfare
Supplemental security income program
Victims of crimes
Visas
Welfare eligibility
Wife abuse

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: 
Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended by the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (VAWA), with respect to T-visa (victims of severe form of trafficking in persons) and U-visa (victims of certain crimes) nonimmigrant aliens.
 
Provides a range of immigration protections for abused aliens. Amends: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide access to legal services for such aliens; and (2) the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to make such aliens eligible for certain public benefits.
 
Amends INA, as amended by VAWA, to apply that Act's deportation protections for transitional relief to all VAWA petitioners. 
 
Amends the the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate the VAWA unit (as defined by this Act) as the administrative unit within the Department of Homeland Security with sole jurisdiction over VAWA case adjudication.
 
Amends INA to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility for VAWA petitioners.
 
Authorizes the Attorney General to award trafficking-related law enforcement training grants to state and local governments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2005-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2005-07-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Financial Services, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-30
text: Introduced in House