No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2866 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2866

 To direct the Secretary of State to revoke the visas of students who 
    have engaged in antisemitic activities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

 Ms. Malliotakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of State to revoke the visas of students who 
    have engaged in antisemitic activities, and for other purposes.

    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 ``No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students 
Act''.

SEC. 2. VISA REVOCATION OR DENIAL FOR STUDENTS ENGAGING IN ANTISEMITIC 
              ACTIVITIES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall revoke or deny a visa 
under subparagraph (F) or (M) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) to any alien who, on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act--
            (1) engages in prohibited antisemitic conduct; and
            (2) is determined by the Secretary of State, pursuant to 
        section 237(a)(4)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
        (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(4)(C)(i)), to pose potentially serious 
        adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States 
        through such conduct.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Antisemitism.--The term ``antisemitism'' means the 
        definition adopted on May 26, 2016, by the International 
        Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, of which the United States is a 
        member, as adopted by the Department of State, including the 
        ``contemporary examples of antisemitism'' identified therein.
            (2) Prohibited antisemitic conduct.--The term ``prohibited 
        antisemitic conduct'' means--
                    (A) engaging in a physical act of violence, 
                vandalism, or harassment targeting a Jewish individual, 
                their property, a community institution, or religious 
                facility, with intent to intimidate or harm based on 
                based on the Jewish identity or affiliation of the 
                individual or property targeted; or
                    (B) providing material support (including funding, 
                organizing, or inciting) to a person knowing that the 
                person intended to use such support to engage in an act 
                described in subparagraph (A).

SEC. 3. TERMS OF NONIMMIGRANT STATUS FOR STUDENTS.

    Section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(s)(1) An alien may not be granted or maintain nonimmigrant 
status under subparagraph (F) or (M) of section 101(a)(15) if the alien 
engages in prohibited antisemitic conduct and the Secretary of State 
determines, pursuant to section 237(a)(4)(C)(i), that such conduct 
would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for 
the United States.
    ``(2) If the Secretary of State determines that an alien who has 
been granted nonimmigrant status under subparagraph (F) or (M) of 
section 101(a)(15) has engaged in prohibited antisemitic conduct, and 
that, as described in section 237(a)(4)(C)(i), such alien or such 
alien's conduct poses potentially serious adverse foreign policy 
consequences for the United States, the Secretary shall revoke the 
alien's visa.
    ``(3) In this subsection:
            ``(A) The term `antisemitism' means the definition adopted 
        on May 26, 2016, by the International Holocaust Remembrance 
        Alliance, of which the United States is a member, as adopted by 
        the Department of State, including the `contemporary examples 
        of antisemitism' identified therein.
            ``(B) The term `prohibited antisemitic conduct' means--
                    ``(i) engaging in a physical act of violence, 
                vandalism, or harassment targeting a Jewish individual, 
                their property, a community institution, or religious 
                facility, with intent to intimidate or harm based on 
                based on the Jewish identity or affiliation of the 
                individual or property targeted; or
                    ``(ii) providing material support (including 
                funding, organizing, or inciting) to a person knowing 
                that the person intended to use such support to engage 
                in an act described in clause (i).''.
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