Protect Patriot Spouses Act

Bill: 115-hr-5593
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2018-04-24
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Military personnel and dependents

National Guard and reserves

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2018-05-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protect Patriot Spouses Act</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider certain nonimmigrant aliens who are or were the spouses of U.S. citizen service members or honorably discharged veterans as having been inspected and admitted to the United States without regard to illegal entry, illegal presence, or document grounds of inadmissibility for purposes of adjustment to permanent resident status. (Currently, aliens under such grounds of inadmissibility are not considered to have been inspected and admitted and may not pursue citizenship without first departing the United States.)</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5593 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 24, 2018 Mr. Soto introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To render certain military spouses eligible for adjustment of status.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Patriot Spouses Act . 2. Adjustment of status for certain military spouses Section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1255 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (n) (1) In applying this section to an alien described in paragraph (2)— (A) such alien shall be deemed, for purposes of subsection (a), to have been inspected and admitted into the United States; and (B) in determining the alien’s admissibility as an immigrant, paragraphs (6)(A), (7)(A), and (9)(B) of section 212(a) shall not apply. (2) An alien is described in this paragraph if the alien— (A) is or was the spouse of a United States citizen who— (i) is or was serving on active duty in the United States Armed Forces or in a reserve component of the United States Armed Forces; and (ii) if discharged or released from service in the Armed Forces, was discharged or released under honorable conditions; and (B) is the beneficiary of a petition for classification under section 204(a)(1)(A) as an immediate relative (as defined in section 201(b)) by reason of the marriage to such citizen. .