Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act

Bill: 115-s-630
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH]
Introduced: 2017-03-15
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Afghanistan

Asia

Conflicts and wars

Foreign labor

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1842-1843)

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-15
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 to increase from 8,500 to 11,000 the total number of visas available for the Afghan special immigrant visa program. </p> <p>Such program is for Afghan translators who worked with the U.S. government or Armed Forces.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 630 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 15, 2017 Mrs. Shaheen (for herself, Mr. McCain , Mr. Reed , Mr. Tillis , Mr. Blumenthal , and Mr. Kaine ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 to make 2,500 visas available for the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act . 2. Special immigrant visas for Afghan allies Section 602(b)(3)(F) of the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking “8,500” and inserting “11,000”.