Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

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.

Currently, this program, sometimes referred to as the Registry program, is only available to eligible non-U.S. nationals (aliens 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.

Existing requirements (e.g., the individual must not be inadmissible or deportable due to certain grounds related to crime or terrorism) continue to apply.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8433 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8433

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 20, 2022

  Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Meng, Mr. 
    Correa, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Nadler, Ms. 
   Barragan, Ms. Bass, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. 
 Castro of Texas, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Chu, Ms. Clarke of New 
  York, Ms. Escobar, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. 
  Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
Lieu, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. McGovern, 
Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 
 Ms. Omar, Mr. Panetta, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Ross, Ms. Roybal-
Allard, Mr. Ruiz, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Smith of Washington, 
Mr. Soto, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Velazquez, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Wilson of 
    Florida, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Castor of Florida, and Mr. McNerney) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Renewing Immigration Provisions of 
the Immigration Act of 1929''.

SEC. 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.
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