Protect Patriot Spouses Act

Bill: 116-hr-557
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Soto, Darren [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2019-01-15
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Immigration status and procedures

Military personnel and dependents

National Guard and reserves

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Protect Patriot Spouses Act</b></p> <p>This bill makes certain alien military spouses eligible for adjustment to permanent residence status.</p> <p>An eligible alien shall be an individual who is or was a spouse of a U.S. citizen who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, either on active duty or in a reserve component. If the U.S. citizen has been discharged from the Armed Forces, such discharge must be under honorable conditions. </p> <p>Certain factors that would otherwise make an alien inadmissible, such as having entered the United States without being admitted, shall not make such an alien spouse ineligible for permanent residence status under the bill. The Department of Homeland Security may also waive certain factors that would otherwise make an alien inadmissible, such as having misrepresented a material fact to secure a visa, if the alien does not pose a threat to the public and has not committed any crimes that are unrelated to immigration status.</p> <p><br> </p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 557 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 15, 2019 Mr. Soto (for himself, Mr. Sablan , Mrs. Torres of California , Ms. Norton , and Mr. Espaillat ) 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— (i) paragraphs (6)(A), (7)(A), and (9)(B) of section 212(a) shall not apply; and (ii) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in the discretion of the Secretary, may waive the application of paragraphs (6)(C), (9)(A), and (9)(C) of section 212(a) if the alien establishes to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the alien does not pose a threat to the public and has not committed any criminal offenses in violation of Federal or State law unrelated to the alien’s status. (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. .