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| 106-hr-5648 | 106 | hr | 5648 | To delay any legal effect or implementation of a notice of rights and request for disposition form of the Immigration and Naturalization Service if an alien admits to being in the United States illegally, gives up the right to a hearing before departure, and requests to return to his country without a hearing. | Immigration | 2000-12-08 | 2000-12-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. LaTourette, Steven C. [R-OH-19] | OH | R | L000553 | 0 | Provides that in any case in which an alien executes an Immigration and Naturalization notice of rights and request for disposition form admitting to illegal U.S. residence, giving up the right to a pre-departure hearing, and requesting a return without hearing, no departure shall be implemented: (1) unless the form was certified after legal consultation in the alien's native language or with an interpreter's assistance; or (2) until 72 hours after form certification. | 2025-01-02T17:15:35Z | |
| 106-hr-5625 | 106 | hr | 5625 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a pilot program under which an alien may be provided H-1B nonimmigrant status without regard to the numerical limitation applicable to that nonimmigrant category if the United States employer seeking the alien's entry makes a qualifying scholarship contribution to an institution of higher education in the United States. | Immigration | 2000-11-03 | 2000-11-06 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Cox, Christopher [R-CA-47] | CA | R | C000830 | 1 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to establish a pilot program (Tech Smart pilot program) under which a specified number of aliens may be issued H- 1B specialty occupation visas without regard to applicable numerical limitations if the U.S. employer seeking such alien makes a qualifying annual scholarship contribution to an institution of higher education. | 2025-01-02T17:15:34Z | |
| 106-hconres-438 | 106 | hconres | 438 | Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the importance of locating a national immigration museum in El Paso, Texas. | Immigration | 2000-10-28 | 2000-10-31 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16] | TX | D | R000170 | 0 | Supports the creation in El Paso, Texas, of the Paso al Norte Immigration History Museum. Urges its designation as the national museum of immigration from Mexico to the United States. | 2025-01-02T17:07:44Z | |
| 106-s-3239 | 106 | s | 3239 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for certain United States international broadcasting employees. | Immigration | 2000-10-25 | 2000-11-22 | Became Public Law No: 106-536. | Senate | Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] | NC | R | H000463 | 1 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide special immigrant status for an alien seeking to enter the United States as a broadcaster for the International Broadcasting Bureau of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, or for a Board grantee, and such alien's accompanying spouse and children. Limits annual entrants, excluding spouse and children, to 100 per fiscal year. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-3226 | 106 | s | 3226 | Religious Workers Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-10-19 | 2000-10-19 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Religious Workers Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the special immigrant religious worker program. | 2025-08-20T14:17:59Z | |
| 106-hr-5448 | 106 | hr | 5448 | New Economy Workforce Act | Immigration | 2000-10-11 | 2000-10-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | New Economy Workforce Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish educational priorities for certain family-sponsored immigrants.Requires diversity immigrants to have at least a bachelor's degree.Establishes and sets forth the Secretary of State's verification obligations respecting foreign degrees and educational credentials. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a related fee. Establishes the Foreign Degree Equivalence Account in the Treasury. | 2025-08-20T14:17:49Z | |
| 106-hr-5377 | 106 | hr | 5377 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the limitation on waivers granted under section 212(h) of that Act to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. | Immigration | 2000-10-04 | 2000-10-04 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the waiver of inadmissibility for criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-5378 | 106 | hr | 5378 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify the special rule relating to continuous residence or physical presence under section 240A(d) of that Act. | Immigration | 2000-10-04 | 2000-10-04 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to U.S. presence requirements for aliens seeking cancellation of removal to eliminate a specified reference to categories of disqualifying offenses. ( Such provision still maintains such offenses as disqualifying continuous presence criteria.) | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-5379 | 106 | hr | 5379 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to clarify the provisions applicable to arrest, detention, and release of criminal aliens pending removal decisions. | Immigration | 2000-10-04 | 2000-10-04 | Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise provisions respecting the mandatory arrest, detention, and release of specified criminal aliens pending removal proceedings. Establishes a minimum $2,000 bond for such aliens' release. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-5362 | 106 | hr | 5362 | To increase the amount of fees charged to employers who are petitioners for the employment of H-1B non-immigrant workers, and for other purposes. | Immigration | 2000-10-03 | 2000-10-17 | Became Public Law No: 106-311. | House | Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-28] | CA | R | D000492 | 1 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase employer-paid H-1B alien petition filing fees. Revises and extends the fee exemption for educational and related employers. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-3149 | 106 | s | 3149 | A bill to provide for the collection of information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants. | Immigration | 2000-10-03 | 2000-10-03 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 0 | Amends the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1997 to provide for direct foreign student payment to the Attorney General of the required information fee under the foreign student and exchange program participant information collection program. (Currently such fee is collected and remitted by the institution of higher education or the exchange program.)Extends the deadline for such program's expansion to nationals of all countries. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-s-3139 | 106 | s | 3139 | Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-28 | 2000-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 4 | Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 2000 - Amends the Classified Information Procedures Act to apply such Act's provisions to immigration proceedings.Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal alien terrorist removal provisions (title V).(Sec. 3) Entitles an alien in a removal proceeding to examine all evidence and admissibility records. (Current law excludes national security information and confidential information.)(Sec. 4) Entitles an alien subject to arrest and detention for removal or deportation to non-federally provided counsel, and access to all evidence.(Sec. 5) Exempts an alien who is a lawful permanent resident, parolee, or asylee from the security and related removal provisions. (Such provisions provide for limited hearings and use of nondisclosed information.)(Sec. 6) Provides for transitional application of information access provisions to alien detainees and aliens seeking immigration benefits. | 2025-08-20T14:20:08Z | |
| 106-s-3117 | 106 | s | 3117 | Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-27 | 2000-09-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] | CA | D | F000062 | 0 | Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2000 - Title I: Structural Changes - Establishes within the Immigration and Naturalization Service the Office of Children's Services which shall be responsible for coordinating and implementing law and policy for unaccompanied alien children.Directs the President to establish an Interagency Task Force on Unaccompanied Alien Children.Title II: Parole, Custody, Release, Family Reunification, and Detention - States that an unaccompanied alien child found in the United States shall be promptly paroled into the United States and placed under the jurisdiction of the Office.Sets forth a family reunification preference order.Prohibits, with an exception for violent children, detention in adult or delinquent children facilities. Directs the Office to develop procedures for prohibited detention practices.Title III: Access by Unaccompanied Alien Children to Guardians Ad Litem and Counsel - Directs the Office to provide that each unaccompanied child have counsel and guardian ad litem.Title IV: Strengthening Policies for Permanent Protection of Children - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a special immigrant juvenile visa (J Visa).Title V: Children Refugee And Asylum Seekers - Expresses congressional commendation of the Immigration and Naturalization Service' s issuance of its "Guidelines for Children's Asylum Claims." Directs the Attorney General to provide immigration officers with related training.Amends the Act to exempt unaccompanied alien children from certain removal and asylum filing provisions.Title VI: Reports to Congress - Directs the Comptroller General to report respecting the Office's effectiveness.Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:17:14Z | |
| 106-s-3120 | 106 | s | 3120 | Immigrant Fairness Restoration Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-27 | 2000-09-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 7 | Immigrant Fairness Restoration Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise specified restrictions respecting: (1) cancellation of removal; (2) deportability and admissibility; (3) judicial review; and (4) right to counsel. | 2025-08-20T14:18:41Z | |
| 106-hr-5293 | 106 | hr | 5293 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve provisions relating to inadmissibility and detention of, and cancellation of removal for, aliens who have committed crimes, and for other purposes. | Immigration | 2000-09-26 | 2000-09-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make an alien who is convicted of an aggravated felony or certain firearm offenses inadmissible to the United States.Limits the waiver of inadmissibility for certain criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United States.Makes an alien who has fraudulently misrepresented a material fact or obtained or sought to obtain immigration-related documents ineligible for a finding of good moral character under such Act.Revises provisions respecting: (1) termination of continuous presence for purposes of cancellation of removal for certain offenses; and (2) detention and release of criminal aliens pending removal decision. | 2025-01-02T17:15:12Z | |
| 106-hr-5285 | 106 | hr | 5285 | Serious Human Rights Abusers Accountability Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-25 | 2000-10-03 | Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 1 | Serious Human Rights Abusers Accountability Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make aliens who are serious human rights abusers (as defined by this Act): (1) ineligible for U.S. admission; (2) subject to removal or deportation; (3) ineligible for refugee or asylee status, and related status adjustments; and (4) ineligible for other specified immigration relief. | 2025-08-20T14:19:03Z | |
| 106-hr-5240 | 106 | hr | 5240 | Alien Children Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-21 | 2000-09-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1] | OR | D | W000793 | 4 | Alien Children Protection Act of 2000 - Requires, with exceptions, an alien under the age of 18 who does not have an adult relative or guardian in the United States to be placed in a facility appropriate for children (as defined in this Act) while he or she is awaiting final immigration status adjudication.Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to adjust the status of an alien under the age of 18 with no lawful immigration status to that of a permanent resident alien if: (1) the alien or parent or guardian has so applied, and the alien has resided in the United States for five consecutive years; or (2) no foreign-domiciled parent or guardian has requested the alien's return, and the Attorney General determines that a return would subject the alien to physical or mental abuse, and it is in the alien's best interests to remain in the United States. Limits the annual number of such status adjustments.Directs the Attorney General to appoint a child welfare professional or trained individual as such alien's guardian ad litem.Expresses the sense of Congress commending the Immigration and Naturalization Service for issuance and implementation of specified children's asylum claims guidelines.Directs the General Accounting Office to report with respect to U.S. embassy and consular efforts to reunify on a priority basis children in foreign countries with parents who are legally present in the United States. | 2025-08-20T14:18:09Z | |
| 106-s-3095 | 106 | s | 3095 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-21 | 2000-10-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11342-11343) | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 10 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline.Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act.Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children.Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.Title II: Adjustment of Status of Other Aliens - Makes certain aliens from the Soviet Union, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany, Yugoslavia, and Liberia residing in the United States eligible for status adjustment as applicable under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act.Title III: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status).Title IV: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986. | 2025-08-20T14:20:43Z | |
| 106-hr-5232 | 106 | hr | 5232 | Immigrant Health and Safety Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-20 | 2000-09-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8] | NY | D | N000002 | 4 | Immigrant Health and Safety Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to cancel removal, and adjust the status to permanent resident, of a qualifying alien whose removal would result in extreme medical hardship for such alien, or the alien's citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent. | 2025-08-20T14:17:41Z | |
| 106-hr-5234 | 106 | hr | 5234 | To amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the applicability of that Act to certain former spouses of deceased Hmong veterans. | Immigration | 2000-09-20 | 2000-11-01 | Became Public Law No: 106-415. | House | Rep. Radanovich, George [R-CA-19] | CA | R | R000004 | 7 | Amends the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the provisions of such Act to certain surviving spouses of deceased Hmong veterans. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-3074 | 106 | s | 3074 | Immigration Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-20 | 2000-09-20 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] | NY | D | S000148 | 0 | Immigration Protection Act of 2000 - Makes specified immigration-related acts of immigration consultants unlawful. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for such violations.Directs the Attorney General to establish specified district task forces to enforce such provisions. Authorizes appropriations.Directs the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to establish related outreach programs, including a toll-free hotline. Authorizes appropriations.Provides for confidentiality of related information and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality. | 2025-08-20T14:17:46Z | |
| 106-s-3068 | 106 | s | 3068 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-09-19 | 2000-10-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11342-11343) | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 8 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline.Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act.Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children.Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.Title II: Adjustment of Status of Other Aliens - Makes certain aliens from the Soviet Union, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany, and Yugoslavia residing in the United States eligible for status adjustment as applicable under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act.Title III: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status).Title IV: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Ac to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986. | 2025-08-20T14:19:33Z | |
| 106-s-3060 | 106 | s | 3060 | A bill to amend the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the applicability of that Act to certain former spouses of deceased Hmong veterans. | Immigration | 2000-09-15 | 2000-09-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Wellstone, Paul D. [D-MN] | MN | D | W000288 | 14 | Amends the Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 to extend the provisions of such Act to certain surviving spouses of deceased Hmong veterans. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hr-5032 | 106 | hr | 5032 | Caribbean Amnesty and Relief Act | Immigration | 2000-07-27 | 2000-09-20 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7902) | House | Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17] | NY | D | E000179 | 1 | Caribbean Amnesty and Relief Act - Title I: Clarification of Eligibility for Relief from Removal and Deportation of Certain Aliens - Provides for: (1) the adjustment to permanent resident alien status of certain nationals of Caribbean countries (and their spouse, children, and unmarried sons and daughters); and (2) employment authorization during the pendency of such status adjustment application.Title II: Visa Fairness Commission - Establishes in the Immigration and Naturalization Service the Visa Fairness Commission, which shall gather data on U.S. embassy and port of entry economic and racial profiling. Authorizes appropriations.Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive the visa fee for aliens who can prove in forma pauperis status. | 2025-08-20T14:18:50Z | |
| 106-hr-5035 | 106 | hr | 5035 | Immigration Services Consumer Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-07-27 | 2000-08-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4] | IL | D | G000535 | 9 | Immigration Services Consumer Protection Act of 2000 - Establishes criminal penalties for immigration consultants who handle immigration matters and do not meet specified requirements, including license and contract requirements. Exempts from such provisions: (1) attorneys; (2) certain law students and law graduates; (3) accredited representatives of qualifying organizations; (4) accredited foreign officials; and (5) persons authorized to practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and Naturalization Service as of a certain date.Authorizes the Attorney General to provide State grants to educate persons respecting the requirements of this Act.Provides for confidentiality of information provided under this Act, and fines for knowing violation of such confidentiality. | 2025-08-20T14:20:14Z | |
| 106-hr-5061 | 106 | hr | 5061 | To provide for the appointment of a guardian ad litem to protect the interests under Federal immigration law of certain alien minor children present in the United States without a parent or other legal guardian. | Immigration | 2000-07-27 | 2000-08-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-8] | FL | R | M000350 | 5 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the appointment of a guardian ad litem for certain aliens under the age of 18 seeking U.S. asylum admission.States that the guardian shall assist in immigration- and asylum-related duties until: (1) the alien reaches 18 years old or departs; or (2) determination of the asylum claim. | 2025-01-02T17:14:47Z | |
| 106-hr-5062 | 106 | hr | 5062 | To establish the eligibility of certain aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence for cancellation of removal under section 240A of the Immigration and Nationality Act. | Immigration | 2000-07-27 | 2000-09-20 | Received in the Senate. | House | Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-8] | FL | R | M000350 | 10 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to limit the disqualification from cancellation of removal for certain permanent resident aliens. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-4966 | 106 | hr | 4966 | Restoration of Fairness in Immigration Law Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-07-26 | 2000-08-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14] | MI | D | C000714 | 47 | Restoration of Fairness in Immigration Law Act of 2000 - Title I: Due Process in Immigration Proceedings - Subtitle A: Judicial Review in Immigration Proceedings - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) with respect to judicial review of: (1) administrative hearings and habeas corpus; (2) asylum determinations; (3) alien apprehension and detention; (4) document fraud waivers; (5) orders issued in absentia; and (6) denial of voluntary departure requests.Subtitle B: Fairness in Removal Proceedings - Amends the Act with respect to removal proceeding provisions, including: (1) burden of proof for admissibility; (2) presumption in favor of withdrawal of admission application; (3) emergency absences; and (4) reinstatement of removal orders against illegal reentry.Subtitle C: Fairness in Detention - Amends the Act with respect to specified detention provisions, including the establishment of a detention alternatives pilot program.Subtitle D: Consular Review of Visa Applications - Amends the Act to direct the Secretary of State to establish a Board of Visa Appeals.Title II: Fairness and Equity in Cases Involving Previous and Minor Misconduct - Subtitle A: Increased Fairness and Equity Concerning Removal Proceedings - Amends the Act to revise specified removal proceedings provisions.Subtitle B: Increased Fairness and Equity Concerning 5-Year Bars to Admission and Other Grounds for Exclusion - Amends the Act to authorize admission ban waivers and other restrictions on inadmissibility with respect to aliens who: (1) abuse student visa provisions; (2) fail to attend removal proceedings; (3) make false citizenship claims; and (4) have committed minor criminal offenses.Title III: Encouraging Family Reunification - Subtitle A: Reuniting Family Members - Amends the Act with respect to: (1) visas for spouses and children of permanent residents temporarily waiting for visa numbers; and (2) refugee and asylee status for unmarried sons and daughters of refugees and asylees, respectively.Establishes specified protections ag… | 2025-08-20T14:19:14Z | |
| 106-s-2912 | 106 | s | 2912 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-07-25 | 2000-10-29 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11342-11343) | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 14 | Latino and Immigrant Fairness Act of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity Act - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000 - Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (Act) to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline.Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act.Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children.Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.Title II: Restoration of Section 245(i) Adjustment of Status Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the restriction that only aliens with preference petitions or labor certifications filed by January 14, 1998, are eligible to adjust to permanent resident status without leaving the United States if they entered without inspection or fall within one of other specified classes (including aliens accepting unauthorized employment and aliens not maintaining legal nonimmigrant status).Title III: Extension of Registry Benefits - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Ac to extend registry benefits to aliens who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1986. | 2025-08-20T14:18:43Z | |
| 106-hr-4887 | 106 | hr | 4887 | Worker Amnesty and Opportunity Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-07-19 | 2000-07-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | O000159 | 3 | Worker Amnesty and Opportunity Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for legal permanent resident status for certain undocumented or nonimmigrant aliens. | 2025-08-20T14:18:29Z | |
| 106-hr-4838 | 106 | hr | 4838 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a waiver of the oath of renunciation and allegiance for naturalization of aliens having certain disabilities. | Immigration | 2000-07-12 | 2000-10-10 | Laid on the table. See S. 2812 for further action. | House | Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R-FL-18] | FL | R | R000435 | 5 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to waive the taking of the naturalization oath of renunciation and allegiance for an alien with a physical or developmental disability or mental impairment who is unable to understand or communicate an understanding of such oath. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-2852 | 106 | s | 2852 | A bill to provide for the adjustment of status of certain Syrian nationals. | Immigration | 2000-07-12 | 2000-07-12 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] | NY | D | S000148 | 1 | Directs the Attorney General to adjust the alien status of certain Syrian (Jewish) nationals present in the United States to permanent resident status. Limits the total number of such adjustees to 2,000. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hr-4798 | 106 | hr | 4798 | Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-06-29 | 2000-07-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16] | CA | D | L000397 | 37 | Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 - Directs the Attorney General to take necessary measures to: (1) reduce the immigration application backlog and ensure that a subsequent backlog does not develop; and (2) make infrastructure improvements to effectively provide immigration services.Authorizes appropriations which shall be designated in the Treasury as the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account.Directs the Attorney General to make specified backlog elimination reports. | 2025-08-20T14:19:41Z | |
| 106-s-2812 | 106 | s | 2812 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide a waiver of the oath of renunciation and allegiance for naturalization of aliens having certain disabilities. | Immigration | 2000-06-29 | 2000-11-06 | Became Public Law No: 106-448. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 6 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to waive the taking of the naturalization oath of renunciation and allegiance for an alien with a disability, or a child, who is unable to understand or communicate an understanding of such oath. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hr-4738 | 106 | hr | 4738 | Immigrant Labor Policy Review Act | Immigration | 2000-06-23 | 2000-07-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Kolbe, Jim [R-AZ-5] | AZ | R | K000306 | 1 | Immigrant Labor Policy Review Act - Establishes the High Level Commission on Immigrant Labor Policy. Directs the Commission to study the interactions between Federal immigration policy and the labor markets for aliens in the United States.Terminates the Commission six months after submission of its final report.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:20:57Z | |
| 106-hr-4679 | 106 | hr | 4679 | To reauthorize appropriations from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. | Immigration | 2000-06-15 | 2000-06-26 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Kelly, Sue W. [R-NY-19] | NY | R | K000078 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reauthorize appropriations for FY 2001 through 2004 from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. | 2025-01-02T17:14:24Z | |
| 106-hr-4681 | 106 | hr | 4681 | To provide for the adjustment of status of certain Syrian nationals. | Immigration | 2000-06-15 | 2000-10-27 | Became Public Law No: 106-378. | House | Rep. Lazio, Rick [R-NY-2] | NY | R | L000155 | 5 | Directs the Attorney General to adust the alien status of certain Syrian (Jewish) nationals who arrived in the United States after December 31, 1991, to permanent resident status. Limits the total number of such adjustees to 2,000. Provides for similar adjustment of such alien's wife, child, or unmarried son or daughter. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-4590 | 106 | hr | 4590 | Young Immigrant Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-06-06 | 2000-06-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Gutierrez, Luis V. [D-IL-4] | IL | D | G000535 | 12 | Young Immigrant Protection Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General to establish special asylum and detention procedures for alien children unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, including (1) appointment of a non-Immigration and Naturalization Service guardian ad litem; (2) appointment of legal counsel; (3) custodial detention provisions; and (4) translation services. | 2025-08-20T14:16:50Z | |
| 106-hr-4548 | 106 | hr | 4548 | Agricultural Opportunities Act | Immigration | 2000-05-25 | 2000-12-07 | House Committee on Education and the Workforce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than Dec. 15, 2000. | House | Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11] | CA | R | P000419 | 54 | Agricultural Opportunities Act - Title I: Agricultural Worker Registries - Directs the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to establish a database system of U.S. worker and eligible alien agricultural worker registries to provide temporary and seasonal agricultural job opportunity and referral information. States that such registries may be established as part of the "America's Job Bank" and "America's Talent Bank" databases.Bases registry coverage on job opportunities in a single State, except for the New England States which may be represented by a single registry.Requires prospective employers of H-2C visa agricultural workers to first apply for registry workers before a petition to import H-2C workers may be approved.Sets forth individual registrant requirements.States that an agricultural worker may apply for registry inclusion in the State of his or her residency. Grants referral preference to U.S. workers, who may be referred for employment nationwide.Directs the Attorney General to establish an employment eligibility verification system.Provides for registry: (1) mandatory and voluntary removal; and (2) confidentiality.Title II: H-2C Program - Sets forth registry application requirements for H-2C employers and employer associations, including assurances: (1) that the job opportunity is not the result of a labor dispute, and is temporary or seasonal; (2) respecting required wages and benefits, and compliance with labor laws; (3) respecting advertising in the registry and other labor market sources, and contact of former employees; and (4) respecting provision of workers compensation.(Sec. 202) Provides that: (1) the Secretary, upon application approval, shall complete a registry search and notify an employer of available registered workers within seven days of the beginning work date; (2) if insufficient workers are available, the Secretary shall so notify an employer, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State; (3) an employer shall pay a user fee for each admitted alien worker; (4) an employer may appl… | 2025-08-20T14:17:59Z | |
| 106-s-2668 | 106 | s | 2668 | Family Work and Immigrant Integration Amendments of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-25 | 2000-05-25 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4481-4487) | Senate | Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL] | FL | D | G000352 | 1 | Family, Work and Immigrant Integration Amendments of 2000 - Title I: Central American and Haitian Parity - Central American and Haitian Parity Act of 2000- Amends the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act to: (1) extend permanent resident status adjustment provisions to qualifying Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, and Haitian nationals; and (2) extend the application filing deadline.Permits certain pending applications filed by Salvadoran or Guatemalan nationals under the Act or Haitian nationals under the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 to be converted to an application for status adjustment under the Act.Amends such Acts to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility; and (2) provide for issuance of immigrant visas to certain spouses and children.Provides for the limited reopening of certain orders of deportation, exclusion, or removal by certain Haitian, Cuban, or Nicaraguan nationals.Title II: Filing Deadlines for Adjustment of Status of Certain Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Haitian Nationals - Extends specified permanent resident adjustment of status filing deadlines for certain Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Haitian nationals.Title III: Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness- Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 2000 - Provides for the permanent resident adjustment of status of certain Liberian nationals present in the United States.Title IV: Increased Flexibility in Employment-Based Immigration - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to make employment-based immigrant visas available on a quarterly basis without regard to per-country limitations if unused visas are available.Authorizes a U.S.-residency extension for a nonimmigrant alien for whom an employment-based immigrant petition has been filed but who is subject to the per-country limit until resolution of such alien's application for status adjustment.Authorizes a qualifying H-1B alien to accept new employment upon a prospective employer's filing of a new petition, which shall la… | 2025-08-20T14:21:21Z | |
| 106-hr-4489 | 106 | hr | 4489 | Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-18 | 2000-06-15 | Became Public Law No: 106-215. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 32 | Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 respecting the automated entry-exit control system to: (1) replace the current requirement that information be collected on every entering and exiting alien with the requirement that such system be an integrated entry and exit data system using available data; (2) state that no additional data collection authority is authorized; (3) extend program implementation deadlines; (4) revise reporting provisions; and (5) authorize appropriations.Directs the Attorney General to determine which Department of Justice and other law enforcement personnel may have access to such data.Directs the Attorney General to establish a task force which shall evaluate specified program-related issues. Authorizes appropriations.Expresses the sense of Congress that the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, Commerce, and the Treasury should consult with affected foreign governments to improve border management. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-2586 | 106 | s | 2586 | Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-18 | 2000-05-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] | CA | D | F000062 | 12 | Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 - Directs the Attorney General to take necessary measures to: (1) reduce the immigration application backlog and ensure that a subsequent backlog does not develop; and (2) make infrastructure improvements to effectively provide immigration services.Authorizes appropriations which shall be designated in the Treasury as the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Account.Directs the Attorney General to make specified backlog elimination reports. | 2025-08-20T14:17:17Z | |
| 106-s-2599 | 106 | s | 2599 | Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-18 | 2000-05-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4205-4207) | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 15 | Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 respecting the automated entry-exit control system to: (1) replace the current requirement that information be collected on every entering and exiting alien with the requirement that such system be an integrated entry and exit data system using available data; (2) state that no additional data collection authority is authorized; (3) extend program implementation deadlines; (4) revise reporting provisions; and (5) authorize appropriations.Directs the Attorney General to determine which Department of Justice and other law enforcement personnel may have access to such data.Directs the Attorney General to establish a task force which shall evaluate specified program-related issues. Authorizes appropriations.Expresses the sense of Congress that the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, Commerce, and the Treasury, should consult with affected foreign governments to improve border management. | 2025-08-20T14:20:17Z | |
| 106-hr-4370 | 106 | hr | 4370 | For the relief of the Philippine citizens collectively referred to as the "Marcos Entourage". | Immigration | 2000-05-03 | 2000-05-25 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E849) | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain alien (and family member) parolees who were traveling with President Ferdinand Marcos to Hawaii. | 2025-01-02T17:13:59Z | |
| 106-hr-4371 | 106 | hr | 4371 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the retroactive period of provisions providing for the crediting of service with the Armed Forces of the United States toward the period of required United States residence of a citizen parent in order for a person born outside the United States of a alien parent and a citizen parent to acquire United States citizenship at birth. | Immigration | 2000-05-03 | 2000-06-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the retroactive period of provisions providing for crediting of Armed Forces service toward the required U.S. residency period of a citizen parent in order for a person born outside the United States of an alien parent and a citizen parent to acquire U.S. citizenship at birth. | 2025-01-02T17:13:59Z | |
| 106-hr-4354 | 106 | hr | 4354 | Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-02 | 2000-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23] | FL | D | H000324 | 0 | Alien Unaccompanied Minor Adjustment and Protection Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to adjust the status of certain unaccompanied aliens under 18 years old to permanent resident.Directs the Attorney General to provide for the establishment outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) of a panel of advisors to serve as guardians ad litem for such aliens in related INS proceedings. | 2025-08-20T14:17:08Z | |
| 106-hr-4359 | 106 | hr | 4359 | Alien Child Protection and Deferred Enforced Departure Family Unity Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-05-02 | 2000-05-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | O000159 | 5 | Alien Child Protection and Deferred Enforced Departure Family Unity Act of 2000 - Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment (and stay of removal if applicable) of an alien orphan who is physically present in the United States and under 12 years old.Provides for deferred enforced departure (and stay of removal if applicable) of an alien who is the natural and legal parent of a U.S.-born child under 18 years old. | 2025-08-20T14:19:12Z | |
| 106-hr-4269 | 106 | hr | 4269 | To extend for one year the authorization for the visa waiver pilot program under section 217 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. | Immigration | 2000-04-13 | 2000-04-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the visa waiver pilot program. | 2025-01-02T17:13:46Z | |
| 106-hr-4282 | 106 | hr | 4282 | State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II and Local Medical Emergency Reimbursement Act | Immigration | 2000-04-13 | 2000-04-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Bilbray, Brian P. [R-CA-49] | CA | R | B000461 | 8 | State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II and Local Medical Emergency Reimbursement Act - Title I: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II - State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 to provide for the reimbursement of States (or their political subdivisions if appropriate) for indirect costs of incarcerating illegal aliens.Defines such costs as: (1) court costs, county attorney costs, and non-trial criminal proceedings; (2) indigent defense; and (3) unsupervised probation costs. Authorizes appropriations.Provides for the reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating juvenile aliens.Provides that reimbursement of States for incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals shall be allocated to give special consideration for any State that: (1) shares a border with Mexico or Canada; or (2) has a large number of undocumented aliens.Title II: Reimbursement of States and Localities for Emergency Health Services to Undocumented Aliens - Authorizes appropriations for allotments to States to be paid to local governments, hospitals, and other providers for emergency health services provided to undocumented aliens.Provides special consideration for providers: (1) in a border county with Mexico or Canada; or (2) in an area with a large number of undocumented aliens.Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:20:23Z | |
| 106-hr-4344 | 106 | hr | 4344 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit H-2A workers from bringing law suits against employers except in the State in which the employer resides or has its principal place of business. | Immigration | 2000-04-13 | 2000-04-25 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Whitfield, Ed [R-KY-1] | KY | R | W000413 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit H-2A (visa) temporary agricultural workers from bringing a lawsuit against an employer except in the State of the employer's residence or principal place of business. | 2025-04-07T13:43:09Z | |
| 106-hres-480 | 106 | hres | 480 | Urging the Attorney General to take no irrevocable action with respect to Elian Gonzalez until a hearing concerning an asylum application is held. | Immigration | 2000-04-13 | 2000-07-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-4] | AZ | R | S000275 | 0 | Urges the Attorney General to take no irrevocable action with respect to Elian Gonzalez until a hearing is held to determine whether authorizing him to file an application for asylum is in his best interest. | 2025-01-02T17:08:20Z | |
| 106-s-2406 | 106 | s | 2406 | Mother Teresa Religious Workers Act | Immigration | 2000-04-12 | 2000-10-23 | Held at the desk. | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 4 | Mother Teresa Religious Workers Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the U.S. entry date in order for religious workers to qualify for a special immigrant visa. (Thus making such entry category permanent.) | 2025-08-20T14:21:31Z | |
| 106-s-2407 | 106 | s | 2407 | Date of Registry Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-04-12 | 2000-09-25 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9124-9127) | Senate | Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] | NV | D | R000146 | 4 | Date of Registry Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the admission date for permanent residence for certain aliens, including additional one-year extensions during specified time periods. | 2025-08-20T14:20:32Z | |
| 106-hr-4227 | 106 | hr | 4227 | Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act | Immigration | 2000-04-11 | 2000-06-23 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 388. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 2 | Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act - Title I: Numerical Limitations on H-1B Nonimmigrants; Increased Portability of H-1B Status - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to eliminate the FY 2000 numerical limitation on H-1B (specialty occupation) nonimmigrant visas. Provides for employer-specific, wage- conditioned FY 2001 and 2002 H-1B visa increases.(Sec. 102) Permits: (1) an H-1B alien, under specified circumstances, to accept new employment upon a prospective employer's filing of a new petition; and (2) employment during such petition's adjudication period.Title II: New Requirements on Petitioning Employers; Petition Filing Fee Reduction for Local Educational Agencies - Amends the Act to establish $40,000 H-1B minimum salary requirements, with exceptions for elementary or secondary teachers, an institution of higher education or related nonprofit entity, or a nonprofit or governmental research organization.(Sec. 202) Requires an H-1B employer to electronically submit specified information (nationality, academic degrees, wages) respecting such employees to the Secretary of Labor, who shall subsequently make such information available on the Internet.(Sec. 203) Establishes a $200 employer processing fee for an H-1B initial employment or employment change petition. Establishes an H-1B Processing Fee Account in the Treasury.(Sec. 204) Requires an H-1B alien seeking admission as a physical therapist to have completed a degree recognized by a Secretary of Labor-approved body as equivalent to a U.S. master's degree in physical therapy.(Sec. 205) Reduces to $100 the employer filing fee for local educational agencies.Title III: Noncompliance Provisions for H-1B Nonimmigrants - Amends the Act to require specialty occupation workers and fashion models admitted under other than H-1B status to obtain such status.(Sec. 302) Requires H-1B workers to work at least 35 hours per week, with exceptions for employers which are institutions of higher education or related nonprofit entities.(Sec. 303) Revises certain a… | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-2383 | 106 | s | 2383 | Alien Children Protection Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-04-11 | 2000-04-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2528) | Senate | Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL] | FL | D | G000352 | 0 | Alien Children Protection Act of 2000 - Requires, with exceptions, an alien under the age of 18 who does not have an adult relative or guardian in the United States to be placed in a facility appropriate for children (as defined in this Act) while he or she is awaiting final immigration status adjudication.Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to adjust the status of an alien under the age of 18 with no lawful immigration status to that of a permanent resident alien if: (1) the alien or parent or guardian has so applied, and the alien has resided in the United States for five consecutive years; or (2) no foreign-domiciled parent or guardian has requested the alien's return, and the Attorney General determines that a return would subject the alien to physical or mental abuse, and it is in the alien's best interests to remain in the United States. Limits the annual number of such status adjustments.Directs the Attorney General to appoint a child welfare professional or trained individual as such alien's guardian ad litem.Expresses the sense of Congress commending the Immigration and Naturalization Service for issuance and implementation of specified children's asylum claims guidelines.Directs the General Accounting Office to report with respect to U.S. embassy and consular efforts to reunify on a priority basis children in foreign countries with parents who are legally present in the United States. | 2025-08-20T14:18:49Z | |
| 106-hr-4200 | 106 | hr | 4200 | American Worker Information Technology Skills Improvement Act of 2000 (AWITSIA) | Immigration | 2000-04-06 | 2000-04-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 15 | American Worker Information Technology Skills Improvement Act of 2000 (AWITSIA) - Title I: Provisions Relating to H-1B Nonimmigrants - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Numerical Limitations - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase the number of authorized annual H-1B specialty occupation (nonimmigrant) visas, with reductions in periods of specified unemployment. Allocates specified H-1B visas for aliens with master's or PhD degrees.Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to H1-B (sic) Nonimmigrant Petitioner Fees - Amends the Act to revise collection and use of H-1B employer fee provisions. Exempts certain academic and research institutions from such fees. Obligates specified amounts for the Information Technology Training Initiative (established by this Act).Amends the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 to expand low-income scholarship program eligibility.Amends the Act to obligate specified funds for the Kids 2000 and Net Prep Gyrls programs.Subtitle C: Information Technology Training - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish in the Department of Labor the Information Technology Training Initiative to provide U.S. workers with information technology skills through grants to local workforce investment boards. Targets specified under-represented populations for program inclusion.Subtitle D: Obligations of Petitioning Employers - Sets forth employer attestation provisions.Title II: Provisions Relating to Employment-Based Immigration - Amends the Act to make employment-based immigrant visas available on a quarterly basis without regard to per-country limitations if unused visas are available.Authorizes a U.S.-residency extension for a nonimmigrant alien for whom an employment-based immigrant petition has been filed but who is subject to the per-country limit until resolution of such alien's application for status adjustment.Title III: Kids 2000 - Directs the Attorney General to make grants to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for after-school technology programs, such as … | 2025-08-20T14:18:22Z | |
| 106-s-2367 | 106 | s | 2367 | Travel, Tourism, and Jobs Preservation Act | Immigration | 2000-04-05 | 2000-04-13 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 511. | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 9 | Travel, Tourism, and Jobs Preservation Act - Title I: Permanent Program Authorization - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make the visa waiver pilot program permanent.Title II: Program Improvements - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant program privileges to countries that extend reciprocal program privileges either directly with the United States or in conjunction with a designated program participant country and have a common immigration admissions area with such country.(Sec. 202) Establishes deadlines for: (1) participating countries to have a machine readable passport program; and (2) alien visitors to have such passports. Requires such programs and passports to meet the international standard for machine readability.(Sec. 203) Requires periodic written evaluations of a participating country's effect on U.S. law enforcement and security interests. | 2025-08-20T14:21:14Z | |
| 106-hr-4172 | 106 | hr | 4172 | Legal Amnesty Restoration Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-04-04 | 2000-10-04 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8782) | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 33 | Legal Amnesty Restoration Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence for certain aliens who entered the United States prior to 1986 (currently 1972). | 2025-08-20T14:17:30Z | |
| 106-hr-4138 | 106 | hr | 4138 | To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence for certain aliens who entered the United States prior to 1986. | Immigration | 2000-03-30 | 2000-04-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 1 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Attorney General to create a record of lawful admission for permanent residence for certain aliens who entered the United States prior to 1986 (currently 1972). | 2025-04-07T13:44:34Z | |
| 106-hr-4068 | 106 | hr | 4068 | Religious Workers Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-03-23 | 2000-11-01 | Became Public Law No: 106-409. | House | Rep. Pease, Edward A. [R-IN-7] | IN | R | P000171 | 0 | Religious Workers Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the special immigrant religious worker program. | 2025-04-07T13:46:57Z | |
| 106-hr-4056 | 106 | hr | 4056 | Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-03-22 | 2000-03-31 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] | GA | D | B000490 | 3 | Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 2000 - Title I: Adjustment to Legal Status - Directs the Attorney General to adjust the status of a qualifying alien agricultural worker to that of a lawfully admitted nonimmigrant. Provides, with respect to such status, for: (1) a maximum seven-year period of validity; and (2) termination and removal for failure to meet specified agricultural work requirements. Sets forth employer record-keeping requirements.Provides for adjustment to permanent resident status upon completion of required agricultural work for five years. Provides for: (1) status termination and removal for fraud or misrepresentation, or certain criminal activities; and (2) deportation for failure to apply for status adjustment within the specified application period.Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) adjustment of status applications, including penalties for false statements; (2) waiver of numerical limitations and certain grounds for inadmissibility; (3) temporary stay of removal and work authorization; (4) administrative and judicial review; and (5) dissemination of program information.Title II: Agricultural Worker Registries - Directs the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to establish a database system of U.S. worker and nonimmigrant agricultural worker registries to provide temporary and seasonal agricultural job opportunity and referral information. States that such registries may be established as part of the "America's Job Bank" and "America's Talent Bank" databases.Bases registry coverage on job opportunities in a single State, except for the New England States which may be represented by a single registry.Requires prospective employers of H-2A visa agricultural workers to first apply for registry workers before a petition to import H-2A workers may be approved.Sets forth individual registrant requirements.States that an agricultural worker may apply for registry inclusion in the State of his or her residency. Grants referral preference to U.S. workers. Provides that adjusted… | 2025-08-20T14:20:37Z | |
| 106-hr-3983 | 106 | hr | 3983 | Helping to Improve Technology Education and Achievement Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-03-15 | 2000-04-04 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology. | House | Rep. Dreier, David [R-CA-28] | CA | R | D000492 | 85 | Helping to Improve Technology Education and Achievement Act of 2000 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Employment-Based Immigration - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make employment-based visas available on a quarterly basis without regard to per-country limitations if unused visas are available.(Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of Labor to take into account Internet recruiting in determining whether an employer has undertaken required efforts to recruit U.S. workers.(Sec. 103) Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary to establish an Internet-based system that will permit tracking of benefit filings required under such Act. Directs the Attorney General to conduct an on-line filing feasibility study. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce to jointly establish a related Technology Advisory Committee.Title II: Provisions Relating to H-1B Nonimmigrants - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase available nonimmigrant H-1B specialty occupation visas for FY 2001 through 2003, with specified visa reservations for: (1) aliens with master's or higher degrees; and (2) institutions of higher education and other research organizations. Makes additional visas available for FY 1999 under specified conditions.(Sec. 202) Requires employers to file W-2 forms for H-1B employees.(Sec. 203) Provides one-year extensions of authorized H-1B stay pending specified status adjudications.Title III: Collection and Use of H-1B Nonimmigrant Fees - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase H-1B petition fees.(Sec. 302) Obligates specified amounts from the H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account for: (1) student loan forgiveness; (2) upward bound; and (3) regional skills training alliances. Eliminates obligations for job training. Decreases obligations for low-income scholarships.Amends the Higher Education Act to establish an educational loan forgiveness program for mathematics and science teachers.Amends the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998… | 2025-08-20T14:17:58Z | |
| 106-hr-3918 | 106 | hr | 3918 | Immigration Reorganization and Improvement Act of 1999 | Immigration | 2000-03-14 | 2000-03-22 | Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by the Yeas and Nays: 4 - 3. | House | Rep. Rogers, Harold [R-KY-5] | KY | R | R000395 | 91 | See summary of: H.R. 2528 | 2025-08-20T14:17:50Z | |
| 106-hr-3767 | 106 | hr | 3767 | Visa Waiver Permanent Program Act | Immigration | 2000-03-01 | 2000-10-30 | Became Public Law No: 106-396. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 12 | Visa Waiver Permanent Program Act - Title I: Permanent Program Authorization - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) to make the visa waiver pilot program permanent.Title II: Program Improvements - Amends the Act to grant program privileges to countries that extend reciprocal program privileges either directly with the United States or in conjunction with a designated program participant country and have with such country a common immigration admissions area.(Sec. 202) Establishes deadlines for: (1) participating countries to have a machine readable passport program that is issuing such passports (October 1, 2003); and (2) alien visitors to have such passports (October 1, 2007). Requires programs and passports to meet the international standard for machine readability.(Sec. 203) Requires an automated system check of visitor identity and admissibility, and provides that an alien denied program entry may seek entry only through visa application. Prohibits administrative or judicial review of entry denial.(Sec. 204) Requires periodic written evaluations of a participating country's effect on U.S. law enforcement and security interests. Provides for emergency (war, disruptive social unrest, overthrow of a democratic government, financial crisis) recission of program designation.(Sec. 205) Directs the Attorney General to develop and implement an automated entry-exit program control system by October 1, 2001, which shall include data provision by participating sea or air carriers. Sets forth related recordkeeping and reporting provisions.Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to develop and implement an automated data sharing system, which shall, by October 1, 2002, supply immigration officers conducting port of entry inspections with available photographs and inadmissibility information with respect to aliens seeking program entry.(Sec. 206) Prohibits, in determining visa refusal rates for program eligibility purposes, the use of procedures based upon race, sex, or disability, unless auth… | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-3771 | 106 | hr | 3771 | To eliminate the numerical limitation on the number of aliens granted asylum who may become lawful permanent residents in any fiscal year. | Immigration | 2000-03-01 | 2000-03-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-26] | CA | D | B000410 | 0 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the cap on aliens eligible to adjust status from asylee to permanent resident in any fiscal year. | 2025-01-02T17:13:20Z | |
| 106-hr-3814 | 106 | hr | 3814 | Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act | Immigration | 2000-03-01 | 2000-03-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 3 | Technology Worker Temporary Relief Act - Title I: Numerical Limitations on H-1B Nonimmigrants - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit additional FY 2000 nonimmigrant special occupation entrants under specified employment-related circumstances.(Sec. 102) Directs the Secretary of State to maintain H-1B visa records. Makes a conforming amendment to the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998.Title II: Anti-Fraud Provisions for H-1B Nonimmigrants - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require specialty occupation workers and fashion models admitted under other than H-1B nonimmigrant status to obtain such status.(Sec. 202) Provides with respect to specialty occupation workers for: (1) minimum 35 hour per week employment; and (2) foreign degree verification.(Sec. 204) Directs the Attorney General to impose an employer anti-fraud fee with respect to such aliens. Establishes in the Treasury an H-1B Anti-fraud Account. Obligates specified fee amounts for anti-fraud and alien removal activities.(Sec. 205) Requires a petitioning H-1B employer to be: (1) an institution of higher learning , or a governmental or nonprofit entity; or (2) a U.S. based and State or locally licensed business with specified gross assets.Title III: Expedited Processing for Certain Employers - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish an expedited H-1B petition processing procedure for qualifying employers. Provides for a $250 petition fee, which shall be deposited into the Immigration Examination Fee Account of the Treasury.Title IV: Collection and Use of H-1B Nonimmigrant Fees for Scholarships - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase employer H-1B petition fees.(Sec. 402) Amends such Act and the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 to repeal authority to allocate and use specified H-1B Treasury fees for job training and demonstration projects.(Sec. 403) Amends such Acts with respect to the H-1B fee scholarship program to: (1) increase obligated … | 2025-08-20T14:20:13Z | |
| 106-hr-3732 | 106 | hr | 3732 | To provide for direct payment by foreign students of the information fee under section 641 of the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1997. | Immigration | 2000-02-29 | 2000-03-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 50 | Amends the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1997 to provide for direct foreign student payment to the Attorney General of the required information fee under the foreign student and exchange program participant information collection program. (Currently such fee is collected and remitted by the institution of higher education or the exchange program.) | 2025-01-02T17:13:05Z | |
| 106-hr-3664 | 106 | hr | 3664 | Illegal Alien Prosecution Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-02-15 | 2000-02-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Salmon, Matt [R-AZ-1] | AZ | R | S000018 | 0 | Illegal Alien Prosecution Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to direct the Attorney General, at Federal or State request, to defer removal of a previously deported alien awaiting trial for a serious violent felony pending conclusion of prosecution, and to detain such alien if released on bail or personal recognizance until taken into Federal or State custody.Authorizes the Attorney General, at Federal or State request, to defer removal of a similarly situated alien awaiting trial for other than a serious violent felony, and to detain (nondiscretionary) such alien until taken into Federal or State custody.Authorizes the Attorney General to: (1) detain, at Federal or State request, an alien seeking U.S. admission who is subject to Federal or State arrest and prosecution, and release such alien into Federal or State custody; and (2) stay the removal of an alien subject to Federal or State arrest. | 2025-08-20T14:20:44Z | |
| 106-hr-3667 | 106 | hr | 3667 | Child Citizenship Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-02-15 | 2000-02-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10] | MA | D | D000210 | 10 | Child Citizenship Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the provisions governing acquisition of citizenship for children born outside of the United States, including persons born outside the United States and admitted under the age of 18. | 2025-08-20T14:18:31Z | |
| 106-hr-3650 | 106 | hr | 3650 | Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-02-14 | 2000-02-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8] | NY | D | N000002 | 59 | Permanent Partners Immigration Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include permanent partners (as defined by this Act) within the scope of such Act. | 2025-08-20T14:19:37Z | |
| 106-s-2058 | 106 | s | 2058 | A bill to extend filing deadlines for applications for adjustment of status of certain Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Haitian nationals. | Immigration | 2000-02-10 | 2000-04-13 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 510. | Senate | Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL] | FL | D | G000352 | 6 | Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 and the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, respectively, to extend deadlines for applying for relief under such Acts. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-s-2045 | 106 | s | 2045 | Kids 2000 Act | Immigration | 2000-02-09 | 2000-10-17 | Became Public Law No: 106-313. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 24 | Title I: American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century - American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to increase available nonimmigrant H-1B specialty occupation visas for FY 2001 through 2003.(Sec. 103) Exempts from H-1B numerical limits an alien who is employed at an institution of higher education or related nonprofit entity, nonprofit research or governmental research entity.(Sec.104) Makes employment-based immigrant visas available on a quarterly basis without regard to per-country limitations if unused visas are available.Authorizes a U.S.-residency extension for a nonimmigrant alien for whom an employment-based immigrant petition has been filed but who is subject to the per-country limit until resolution of such alien's application for status adjustment.(Sec. 105) Authorizes a qualifying H-1B alien to accept new employment upon a prospective employer's filing of a new petition, which shall last until such petition's adjudication.(Sec. 106) Provides for one-year extensions of authorized H-1B stay in cases of permanent residence adjudications lasting 365 days or longer.(Sec. 107) Extends: (1) attestation requirements under such Act through October 1, 2002; and (2) investigative authorities under the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 through FY 2002.(Sec. 108) Provides, with respect to nonimmigrant visa petitions subject to numerical limits, for the numerical restoration of such visas fraudulently obtained, effective for the fiscal year of petition revocation.(Sec. 109) Directs the National Science Foundation to conduct a study of the divergence in high technology access (digital divide).(Sec. 110) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce allocations from the (visa fee) Treasury H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account for job training and low-income scholarships for mathematics, engineering, or computer studies.Replaces the existing allocation for National Science Foundation (NSF) enrichment grants … | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hr-3585 | 106 | hr | 3585 | To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury to operate the land border port of entry located in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, as a full-time port of entry. | Immigration | 2000-02-08 | 2000-02-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. | House | Rep. Bass, Charles F. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | B000220 | 0 | Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, to operate the land border port of entry at Pittsburg, New Hampshire, as a full-time immigration, border crossing, and customs port of entry. | 2025-01-02T17:13:15Z | |
| 106-hr-3572 | 106 | hr | 3572 | To extend the deadlines for applying for relief under section 902 of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 and section 202 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act. | Immigration | 2000-02-02 | 2000-02-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Meek, Carrie P. [D-FL-17] | FL | D | M000628 | 8 | Amends the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998 and the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, respectively, to extend deadlines for applying for relief under such Acts. | 2025-01-02T17:12:55Z | |
| 106-s-2025 | 106 | s | 2025 | Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 | Immigration | 2000-02-02 | 2000-02-02 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Grams, Rod [R-MN] | MN | R | G000367 | 0 | Hmong Veterans' Naturalization Act of 2000 - Revises the English language requirement and provides special consideration for the civics requirement with respect to the naturalization of certain aliens (or their spouses or widows) who served with special guerilla units in Laos.Sets forth documentation and eligibility determination requirements.Limits total entrants to 45,000. | 2025-08-20T14:19:32Z | |
| 106-sconres-79 | 106 | sconres | 79 | A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that Elian Gonzalez should be reunited with his father, Juan Gonzalez of Cuba. | Immigration | 2000-01-26 | 2000-01-26 | Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S100) | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 5 | Declares the sense of the Congress that: (1) Congress should not interfere with normal immigration proceedings by taking any legislative measures designed to delay the reunification of Elian and Juan Gonzalez; and (2) the Immigration and Naturalization Service should proceed with its original decision to return Elian Gonzalez to his father, Juan Gonzalez, in Cuba, and take all necessary steps to reunify Elian Gonzalez with his father as soon as possible. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hconres-240 | 106 | hconres | 240 | Expressing the sense of Congress that Elian Gonzalez should be reunited with his father, Juan Gonzalez of Cuba. | Immigration | 2000-01-24 | 2000-07-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-15] | NY | D | R000053 | 61 | Declares the sense of the Congress that: (1) Congress should not interfere with normal immigration proceedings by taking any legislative measures designed to delay the reunification of Elian and Juan Gonzalez; and (2) the Immigration and Naturalization Service should proceed with its original decision to return Elian Gonzalez to his father, Juan Gonzalez, in Cuba, and take all necessary steps to reunify Elian Gonzalez with his father as soon as possible. | 2025-01-02T17:07:30Z | |
| 106-hr-3508 | 106 | hr | 3508 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide status in each of fiscal years 2000 through 2002 for 65,000 H-1B nonimmigrants who have a master's or Ph. D. degree and meet the requirements for such status and whose employers make scholarhip payments to institutions of higher education for undergraduate and postgraduate education. | Immigration | 1999-11-18 | 1999-12-01 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Wu, David [D-OR-1] | OR | D | W000793 | 10 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to provide (H1-B visa) nonimmigrant status for a specified number of aliens during FY 2000 through 2002 with a master's or PhD degree whose employers make qualified scholarship payments to institutions of higher education for undergraduate and postgraduate study. (Gives scholarship priority to citizens and permanent resident aliens.) | 2025-01-02T17:12:54Z | |
| 106-s-1966 | 106 | s | 1966 | A bill to provide for the immediate review by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of new employees hired by employers subject to Operation Vanguard or similar programs, and for other purposes. | Immigration | 1999-11-18 | 1999-11-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE] | NE | R | H001028 | 2 | Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program to provide for electronic confirmation of an individual's identity and employment eligibility within five days of an employer's information submission. Authorizes Immigration and Naturalization Service personnel to make such confirmations.States that failure by the Attorney General to make the program available to covered employers (as defined in this Act) shall prohibit the issuance of certain administrative subpoenas under Operation Vanguard or other similar program.Revises related civil penalties with respect to participating employers. | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z | |
| 106-hr-3429 | 106 | hr | 3429 | Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-11-17 | 2000-02-09 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H258) | House | Rep. Barrett, Bill [R-NE-3] | NE | R | B000179 | 4 | Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act of 1999 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to replace current pilot programs for employment eligibility confirmation with a legal employment authentication program (LEAP) for employment eligibility confirmation.Directs the Attorney General to establish such LEAP program, which shall be voluntary except for the Federal Government, independent agencies, and members and officers of Congress, and legislative agency heads.Sets forth program provisions.Directs the Attorney General to establish an employment eligibility confirmation system, which shall include specified responsibilities of the Commissioner of Social Security and of the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.Authorizes appropriations.Sunsets the citizen attestation and machine readable-document pilot programs as of a certain date. | 2025-08-20T14:21:24Z | |
| 106-s-1940 | 106 | s | 1940 | Refugee Protection Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-11-17 | 2000-10-03 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9649) | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 9 | Refugee Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to refugee provisions to limit summary inspection procedures to emergency migration situations in which numbers of arriving aliens substantially exceed inspection capacities. Grants the Attorney General sole authority to make such determination, which shall last 90 days unless extended after consultation with the appropriate congressional committees.Revises provisions respecting inspection of aliens seeking U.S. admission, including requiring: (1) an alien to be informed of certain rights prior to removal or withdrawal of his or her admission application, and (2) review of a removal order by an immigration judge, with the right of the alien to personally appear and be represented (at his or her expense).Exempts from expedited removal procedures aliens fleeing countries with poor human rights record, as determined by the Attorney General.Revises the procedure used to determine whether an applicant for asylum has a credible fear of persecution.Authorizes (currently requires) the Attorney General to detain asylum applicants pending claims resolution.Repeals a specified limitation on judicial review of alien admissions.Provides, with respect to asylum applicants, for an exception to the filing deadline or a permitted second filing after a rejection upon a showing of good cause. | 2025-08-20T14:17:52Z | |
| 106-s-1953 | 106 | s | 1953 | Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-11-17 | 1999-11-17 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Kerrey, J. Robert [D-NE] | NE | D | K000146 | 0 | Legal Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act of 1999 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to replace current pilot programs for employment eligibility confirmation with a legal employment authentication program (LEAP) for employment eligibility confirmation.Directs the Attorney General to establish such LEAP program, which shall be voluntary except for the Federal Government, independent agencies, Members and officers of Congress, and legislative agency heads.Sets forth program provisions.Directs the Attorney General to establish an employment eligibility confirmation system, which shall include specified responsibilities of the Commissioner of Social Security and of the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.Authorizes appropriations.Sunsets the citizen attestation and machine readable-document pilot programs as of a certain date. | 2025-08-20T14:20:06Z | |
| 106-hr-3272 | 106 | hr | 3272 | Keeping Families Together Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-11-09 | 2000-02-16 | Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H494) | House | Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-50] | CA | D | F000116 | 2 | Keeping Families Together Act of 1999 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Act) to repeal the provision amending the definition of "aggravated felony", and restore provisions of law amended by such provision as if it had not been enacted, including residency- or status-related rights of an affected legal alien.(Sec. 3) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to revise detention of criminal alien provisions, effective as if included in the Act.(Sec. 4) Repeals certain provisions respecting termination of continuous presence or physical presence in the United States, effective as if included in the Act.(Sec. 5) Repeals the definition of "conviction", effective as if included in the Act.(Sec. 6) Authorizes the Attorney General to admit certain lawfully admitted permanent resident aliens returning to the United States who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation or removal, effective as of a specified date, as if certain sections of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 had not been enacted.(Sec. 7) Revises provisions respecting judicial review of removal orders. | 2025-08-20T14:18:35Z | |
| 106-hr-3273 | 106 | hr | 3273 | Military Families Unification Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-11-09 | 1999-11-17 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-50] | CA | D | F000116 | 4 | Military Families Unification Act of 1999 - Exempts a qualifying alien child or spouse of a Philippine serviceman in the United States Navy from: (1) specified bars to admission due to unlawful U.S. presence; or (2) penalties for failure to depart from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act.Provides such aliens of appropriate age with work authorization. | 2025-08-20T14:20:51Z | |
| 106-s-1814 | 106 | s | 1814 | Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-27 | 2000-05-04 | Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration. Hearings held. | Senate | Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] | OR | R | S001142 | 16 | Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 1999 - Title I: Adjustment to Legal Status - Directs the Attorney General to adjust the status of a qualifying alien agricultural worker to that of a lawfully admitted nonimmigrant. Provides, with respect to such status, for: (1) a maximum seven-year period of validity; and (2) termination and removal for failure to meet specified agricultural work requirements. Sets forth employer record-keeping requirements.Provides for adjustment to permanent resident status upon completion of required agricultural work for five years. Provides for: (1) status termination and removal for fraud or misrepresentation, or certain criminal activities; and (2) deportation for failure to apply for status adjustment within the specified application period.Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) adjustment of status applications, including penalties for false statements; (2) waiver of numerical limitations and certain grounds for inadmissibility; (3) temporary stay of removal and work authorization; (4) administrative and judicial review; and (5) dissemination of program information.Title II: Agricultural Worker Registries - Directs the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to establish a database system of U.S. worker and nonimmigrant agricultural worker registries to provide temporary and seasonal agricultural job opportunity and referral information. States that such registries may be established as part of the "America's Job Bank" and "America's Talent Bank" databases.Bases registry coverage on job opportunities in a single State, except for the New England States which may be represented by a single registry.Requires prospective employers of H-2A visa agricultural workers to first apply for registry workers before a petition to import H-2A workers may be approved.Sets forth individual registrant requirements.States that an agricultural worker may apply for registry inclusion in the State of his or her residency. Grants referral preference to U.S. workers. Provides that adju… | 2025-12-19T18:01:12Z | |
| 106-s-1815 | 106 | s | 1815 | Farmworker Adjustment Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-27 | 1999-10-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL] | FL | D | G000352 | 1 | Farmworker Adjustment Act of 1999 - Directs the Attorney General to adjust the status of a qualifying alien agricultural worker to that of a lawfully admitted nonimmigrant. Provides, with respect to such status, for: (1) a maximum seven-year period of validity; and (2) termination and removal for failure to meet specified agricultural work requirements. Sets forth employer record keeping requirements.Provides for adjustment to permanent resident status upon completion of required agricultural work for five years. Provides for: (1) status termination and removal for fraud or misrepresentation, or certain criminal activities; and (2) deportation for failure to apply for status adjustment within the specified application period.Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) adjustment of status applications, including penalties for false statements; (2) waiver of numerical limitations and certain grounds for inadmissibility; (3) temporary stay of removal and work authorization; (4) administrative and judicial review; and (5) dissemination of program information. | 2025-08-20T14:19:38Z | |
| 106-hr-3149 | 106 | hr | 3149 | Legal Amnesty Restoration Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-26 | 1999-10-29 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Jackson-Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18] | TX | D | J000032 | 33 | Legal Amnesty Restoration Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal the judicial review limitation on denial of status adjustment to permanent resident with respect to certain aliens (effective as if enacted in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986). Extends the admission registry date for permanent residence, including a further extension in a case involving an unlawful act by an Immigration and Naturalization Service employee or officer, for certain aliens. | 2025-08-20T14:20:37Z | |
| 106-s-1753 | 106 | s | 1753 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under such Act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such Act. | Immigration | 1999-10-20 | 1999-11-05 | Held at the desk. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 3 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an alien who is adopted while under the age of 18 may be considered a child under such Act if adopted with or after a natural sibling who is a child (under the age of 16). | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-hr-3076 | 106 | hr | 3076 | Illegal Alien Forfeiture Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-14 | 1999-10-21 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. Deal, Nathan [R-GA-9] | GA | R | D000168 | 10 | Illegal Alien Forfeiture Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to the civil penalty for illegal U.S. entry to: (1) make such penalty mandatory; and (2) authorize related asset seizure and forfeiture. (Sec. 4) Provides additional civil penalties (and asset seizure and forfeiture) for: (1) transporting illegal aliens into or in the United States; and (2) the alien so transported. (Sec. 5) Makes aliens owing a debt to the United States: (1) deportable; and (2) ineligible for admission or visas. (Sec. 6) Increases the civil penalty for entry of an alien at the improper time or place. | 2025-08-20T14:17:41Z | |
| 106-hr-3083 | 106 | hr | 3083 | Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-14 | 2000-07-20 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9] | IL | D | S001145 | 112 | Battered Immigrant Women Protection Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify procedures and provide special rules for battered spouses and children with respect to: (1) adjustment of status; (2) removal and deportation; (3) implementation of immigration provisions in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); (4) waivers and exceptions to inadmissibility for otherwise qualified battered immigrants; (5) calculation of physical presence in VAWA cancellation of removal proceedings and suspension of deportation proceedings; (6) VAWA immigration protections; (7) VAWA cancellation of removal and adjustment of status for certain nonpermanent residents; and (8) good moral character determinations for self- petitioning immediate relatives.(Sec. 10) Prescribes guidelines for inapplicability of public charge determinations for designated aliens.Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to redefine "qualified alien" to include certain battered aliens for purposes of welfare and public benefits eligibility.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to declare restrictions on the use of assisted housing inapplicable to certain battered aliens.(Sec. 11) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 to provide that requirements and restrictions placed upon Legal Services Corporation funding shall not be construed to prohibit a recipient from providing related legal assistance to certain aliens who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty.Directs the Violence Against Women Grants Office in the Department of Justice to report on services for underserved populations.Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Act) to include legal advocacy for domestic violence in immigration cases under the program of grants to encourage arrest policies.Includes alienage status within the definition of "underserved populations."Amends the Violent Crime Control and Law Enfo… | 2025-08-20T14:20:30Z | |
| 106-hr-3058 | 106 | hr | 3058 | Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act | Immigration | 1999-10-12 | 2000-02-17 | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House | Rep. Foley, Mark [R-FL-16] | FL | R | F000238 | 31 | Anti-Atrocity Alien Deportation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the inadmissibility and removability of aliens who have committed acts of torture abroad. Directs the Attorney General to establish within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice an Office of Special Investigations to investigate and remove, denaturalize, or prosecute alien participants of Nazi persecutions, genocide, or torture abroad. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:18:33Z | |
| 106-hr-3061 | 106 | hr | 3061 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for an additional 2 years the period for admission of an alien as a nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(S) of such Act, and to authorize appropriations for the refugee assistance program under chapter 2 of title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act. | Immigration | 1999-10-12 | 1999-11-13 | Became Public Law No: 106-104. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 0 | Expresses the sense of Congress that in light of increased alien smuggling into the United States, the Attorney General should increase the use of providing nonimmigrant status for aliens assisting in criminal or security investigations ("S" visa) in alien smuggling operations. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the "S" visa period of admissions. Authorizes appropriations for refugee admissions. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-s-1713 | 106 | s | 1713 | S Visa and Refugee Assistance Authorization Act | Immigration | 1999-10-08 | 1999-10-21 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 338. | Senate | Sen. Abraham, Spencer [R-MI] | MI | R | A000355 | 1 | S Visa and Refugee Assistance Authorization Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that in light of increased alien smuggling into the United States, the Attorney General should increase the use of providing nonimmigrant status for aliens assisting in criminal or security investigations ("S" visa) in alien smuggling operations. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the "S" visa period of admissions. Authorizes appropriations for refugee assistance. | 2025-08-20T14:16:52Z | |
| 106-s-1709 | 106 | s | 1709 | State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II and Local Medical Emergency Reimbursement Act | Immigration | 1999-10-07 | 1999-10-07 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] | AZ | R | K000352 | 7 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II Title II: Reimbursement of States and Localities for Emergency Health Services to Undocumented Aliens State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II and Local Medical Emergency Reimbursement Act - Title I: State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II - State Criminal Alien Assistance Program II Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Reform and Control Act of 1986 to provide for the reimbursement of States for indirect costs of incarcerating illegal aliens. Defines such costs as: (1) court costs, county attorney costs, and non-trial criminal proceedings; (2) indigent defense; and (3) unsupervised probation costs. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for the reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating juvenile aliens. Provides that reimbursement of States for incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals shall be allocated to give special consideration for any State that: (1) shares a border with Mexico or Canada; or (2) has a large number of undocumented aliens. Title II: Reimbursement of States and Localities for Emergency Health Services to Undocumented Aliens - Authorizes appropriations for allotments to States to be paid to local governments, hospitals, and other providers for emergency health services provided to undocumented aliens. Provides special consideration for providers: (1) in a border county with Mexico or Canada; or (2) in an area with a large number of undocumented aliens. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:17:07Z | |
| 106-hr-2998 | 106 | hr | 2998 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reduce the annual income level at which a person petitioning for a family-sponsored immigrant's admission must agree to provide support in a case where a United States employer has agreed to employ the immigrant for a period of not less than one year after admission or where the sponsored alien is under the age of 18. | Immigration | 1999-10-01 | 1999-10-07 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-8] | FL | R | M000350 | 2 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the current financial requirements for a sponsor's affidavit of support for an alien that not less than 100 percent of the Federal poverty line level shall be required during the period that the affidavit is enforceable for an alien: (1) where a U.S. employer has agreed to employ the alien for at least one year after admission; or (2) who will be under the age of 18 for the time the affidavit is enforceable. (Current law requires annual support at not less than 125 percent of the Federal poverty level for all sponsored aliens.) | 2025-01-02T17:12:17Z | |
| 106-hr-2999 | 106 | hr | 2999 | Fairness for Permanent Residents Act of 1999 | Immigration | 1999-10-01 | 1999-10-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. | House | Rep. McCollum, Bill [R-FL-8] | FL | R | M000350 | 8 | Fairness for Permanent Residents Act of 1999 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General to cancel the removal of specified permanent resident aliens who have been convicted of an aggravated felony that would not have been an aggravated felony prior to the passage of specified provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 or the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.Directs the Attorney General to establish a process for discretionary waiver of inadmissibility or deportation of specified aliens under similar circumstances as above.Authorizes the supervised release of certain aliens from detention pending removal decisions. Subjects such decision (by the Attorney General) to administrative review only. Authorizes not more than three months' additional detention for inadmissible or criminal aliens deemed to be a risk in order to allow for removal negotiations between the United States and a foreign nation. Revises related release provisions. | 2025-08-20T14:19:42Z | |
| 106-hr-2961 | 106 | hr | 2961 | International Patient Act of 2000 | Immigration | 1999-09-28 | 2000-11-01 | Became Public Law No: 106-406. | House | Rep. Bentsen, Ken [D-TX-25] | TX | D | B000400 | 11 | International Patient Act of 2000 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize a three-year pilot program under which the Attorney General may extend the voluntary departure period for certain nonimmigrant aliens (up to 300 annually) admitted under the visa waiver program who require continued U.S. medical treatment.Requires statements to be submitted to the Attorney General: (l) from the physician and health care facility respecting medical diagnosis and non-public payment of health services; and (2) evidencing the alien's financial capacities.Requires an annual report of all such waivers. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 106-s-1645 | 106 | s | 1645 | HITEC Act | Immigration | 1999-09-28 | 1999-09-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Robb, Charles S. [D-VA] | VA | D | R000295 | 5 | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pilot Program Title II: Technology Education Grants Helping Improve Technology Education and Competitiveness Act or the HITEC Act - Title I: Pilot Program - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a pilot program under which certain aliens completing a postsecondary degree in mathematics, science, engineering, or computer science may have their nonimmigrant status adjusted to permit U.S. employment for up to five years in such fields. Sets forth related employer filing and enforcement provisions. Establishes in the Treasury the High-Tech Education Account Fund. Title II: Technology Education Grants - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to make matching grants to eligible business entities (which may additionally consist of government and education representatives) to assist public schools improve mathematics, science, and technology education. States that such grants shall be used for: (1) teacher training; and (2) provision of resources and technology support and specialized teaching personnel. Requires grantees to track program performance. Directs the Secretary to carry out an awards program (HITEC Gold Medal) to recognize entities that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to improving the quality of mathematics, science, and technology education through public school partnering. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-20T14:17:42Z | |
| 106-hr-2883 | 106 | hr | 2883 | Child Citizenship Act of 2000 | Immigration | 1999-09-21 | 2000-10-30 | Became Public Law No: 106-395. | House | Rep. Smith, Lamar [R-TX-21] | TX | R | S000583 | 41 | Child Citizenship Act of 2000 - Title I: Citizenship for Certain Children Born Outside the United States - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide automatic U.S. citizenship for a child born outside the United States when the following conditions are met: (1) at least one parent is a U.S. citizen; (2) the child is under 18 years old; and (3) the child is residing in the United States in the legal and physical custody of the citizen parent pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence. Applies such provision to an adopted child meeting certain definitional requirements who is adopted by a U.S. citizen parent.Provides for issuance of a certificate of naturalization for a child born outside of the United States when the following conditions are met: (1) at least one parent is a U.S. citizen who has been present in the United States for not less than five years, at least two of which were after having attained the age of 14, or who has a citizen parent meeting such requirements; (2) the child is under 18 years old; and (3) the child is residing outside the United States in the legal and physical custody of the citizen parent, is temporarily and lawfully present in the United States, and is maintaining such lawful status. Applies such provision to an adopted child meeting certain definitional requirements who is adopted by a U.S. citizen parent.Title II: Protections for Certain Aliens Voting Based on Reasonable Belief of Citizenship - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act respecting unlawful voting or false U.S. citizenship claims by permanent resident aliens under 16 years old having natural or adoptive U.S. citizen parents, to provide exceptions from certain provisions regarding deportability, moral character, inadmissability or related criminal penalties. | 2025-04-07T13:46:39Z | |
| 106-hr-2886 | 106 | hr | 2886 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a child under such Act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child under such Act. | Immigration | 1999-09-21 | 1999-12-07 | Became Public Law No: 106-139. | House | Rep. Horn, Stephen [R-CA-38] | CA | R | H000789 | 9 | Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that an alien who is adopted while under the age of 18 may be considered a child under such Act if adopted with or after a natural sibling who is a child (under the age of 16). | 2026-02-10T13:38:48Z |
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