For updates on the legislation listed below visit The National Immigration Forum
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP Act)
H.R. 4321, introduced by Representatives Solomon Ortiz (D-TX), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and 90 other co-sponsors. Among other things, the bill provides a program for legalizing undocumented immigrants, updates the family-based and employment-based immigration admissions systems, repeals section 287(g) of the immigration law (having to do with state and local police cooperation), focuses more resources at ports of entry on the borders, provides standards for immigration detention, restores some judicial review of immigration-related decisions, provides for the implementation of an electronic employment verification system, and provides resources for the integration of immigrants into our society.
The Refugee Protection Act of 2010, a bill introduced in the Senate by Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Carl Levin (D-MI), received a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 19. Among other things, the bill would eliminate the one-year waiting period before refugees and asylum seekers can apply for permanent residence. It would also attempt to fix a problem with current law where some refugees and asylum seekers are denied protection because of a broad interpretation of material support and terrorism bars. Certain vulnerable groups will be eligible for expedited adjudication as refugees.
The Dream Act Among other things, these bills would permit certain immigrant students to apply for temporary legal status and to eventually obtain permanent status and become eligible for U.S. citizenship if they go to college or serve in the U.S. military. They would also eliminate a federal provision penalizing states that provide in-state tuition based on state residency, regardless of immigration status.
H.R.1751 – American Dream Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, and
S.729 – DREAM Act of 2009 in the U.S. Senate.
Uniting American Families Act, which would allow U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to petition for their foreign same-sex partners to come to the United States under the nation’s family immigration system
