Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1965 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1965

  To eliminate employment-based visa caps for abused, abandoned, and 
 neglected children who are classified as special immigrant juveniles, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2025

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Durbin, Mr. 
   Welch, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Warren, and Mr. 
   Merkley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To eliminate employment-based visa caps for abused, abandoned, and 
 neglected children who are classified as special immigrant juveniles, 
                        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 ``Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA CAPS FOR SPECIAL 
              IMMIGRANT JUVENILES.

    (a) Aliens Not Subject to Direct Numerical Limitations.--Section 
201(b)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1151(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``subparagraph (A) or (B)'' and 
inserting ``subparagraph (A), (B), or (J)''.
    (b) Preference Allocation for Employment-Based Immigrants.--Section 
203(b)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(4)) 
is amended by striking ``subparagraph (A) or (B) thereof'' and 
inserting ``subparagraph (A), (B), or (J) of such section''.
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