Keeping Our Promise to Our Afghan Allies Act

Bill: 115-hr-1544
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kinzinger, Adam [R-IL-16]
Introduced: 2017-03-15
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Afghanistan

Asia

Conflicts and wars

Foreign aid and international relief

Foreign labor

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Immigration status and procedures

Military operations and strategy

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
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: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1544 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 15, 2017 Mr. Kinzinger (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Stivers , Mr. Moulton , Mr. Banks of Indiana , Mr. Peters , Mr. Wenstrup , Mr. Conyers , Mr. Hunter , Mr. Ryan of Ohio , Ms. Stefanik , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Reichert , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Mr. Gallagher , and Mr. Welch ) introduced the following bill; which was 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 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 .