Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

Bill: 118-s-2606
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA]
Introduced: 2023-07-27
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S3761-3762)

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-07-27
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929</strong></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 (<em>aliens</em> 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: II 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2606 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 27, 2023 Mr. Padilla (for himself, Ms. Warren , Mr. Luján , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Sanders , and Mr. Booker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 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.