To amend section 222 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the rejection of immigrant and nonimmigrant applications for omissions in certain fields not required.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10539 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10539

To amend section 222 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit 
the rejection of immigrant and nonimmigrant applications for omissions 
                    in certain fields not required.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 19, 2024

 Mrs. Ramirez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 222 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit 
the rejection of immigrant and nonimmigrant applications for omissions 
                    in certain fields not required.

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

SECTION 1. APPLICATIONS FOR VISAS.

    Section 222 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1202) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding after the period at the 
        end the following: ``An application that is submitted in such 
        form and manner and at such place as prescribed by regulations 
        may not be rejected solely because it contains an omission in a 
        field of the application not required under such 
        regulations.'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by adding after the period at the 
        end the following: ``An application that is submitted in such 
        form and manner as prescribed by regulations may not be 
        rejected solely because it contains an omission in a field of 
        the application not required under such regulations.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out 
any change to the adjudication criteria for an application or petition 
related to the immigration status of an alien under this section that 
would preclude or restrict consideration of such application or 
petition.''.
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