Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

Bill: 118-hr-1511
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2023-03-09
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Border security and unlawful immigration

Immigration status and procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2023-03-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-03-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929</b></p> <p>This bill expands eligibility for a program that authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to, at its discretion, provide lawful permanent resident status to certain long-term residents of the United States, including individuals who are unlawfully present.</p> <p>Currently, this program, sometimes referred to as the Registry program, is only available to eligible non-U.S. nationals (<i>aliens</i> under federal law) who entered the United States before January 1, 1972. The bill removes this entry cutoff date and opens up the program to eligible individuals who have resided in the United States for at least seven years. </p> <p>Existing requirements (e.g., the individual must not be inadmissible or deportable due to certain grounds related to crime or terrorism) continue to apply.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1511 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 9, 2023 Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Torres of California , Ms. Meng , Mr. Correa , Mr. Espaillat , Mr. García of Illinois , Mr. Cárdenas , Ms. Norton , Mr. Sherman , Ms. Garcia of Texas , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Panetta , Mr. Gomez , Mr. Nadler , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Ms. Velázquez , Ms. Sánchez , Ms. Ross , Ms. Jayapal , Mr. Payne , Ms. Barragán , Mr. Lieu , Ms. Bush , Mr. Vargas , Ms. Lee of California , Mrs. Napolitano , Ms. Salinas , Ms. Clarke of New York , Ms. Omar , Mr. Soto , Ms. Jacobs , Mr. Grijalva , Ms. Wilson of Florida , Mr. Trone , Mr. Blumenauer , Ms. Tlaib , Mr. McGovern , Ms. Moore of Wisconsin , Ms. Chu , Mr. Bowman , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Scanlon , Ms. Jackson Lee , Mrs. Ramirez , Ms. Kamlager-Dove , Ms. DeGette , Mr. Robert Garcia of California , Ms. Tokuda , and Mr. Casar ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render available to certain long-term residents of the United States the benefit under that section.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 . 2. Registry (a) In general Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1259 ) is amended— (1) in the section header, by striking entered the united states prior to July 1, 1924 or January 1, 1972 ; and inserting are long-term residents of the united states ; and (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows: (a) entered the United States at least 7 years before the application date; . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.