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The bill shifts U.S. immigration toward protecting domestic workers and prioritizing high-skilled and nuclear‑family admissions while sharply curtailing family (parents) and diversity-based pathways, imposing stricter eligibility rules, heavier compliance burdens, and tighter procedural limits that will reduce some immigrant access and increase administrative costs.
U.S. workers (including unemployed and laid-off applicants) gain stronger protections: employers must document recruitment, offer jobs to equally or better qualified U.S. applicants, maintain promised wages for three years, and displaced workers can seek binding remedies (hiring/backpay).
High-skilled prospective immigrants (and employers seeking them) gain a clearer, faster path to green cards via a points-based selection that prioritizes skills, wages, education, English, and STEM/exceptional achievement and includes regular selection rounds and transparent tie-break rules.
Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens remain immediate relatives with priority, preserving a direct family-reunification route for nuclear families.
U.S. citizens lose the ability to sponsor parents as immediate relatives, and a new annual cap plus parolee deductions shrink family-visa supply, likely increasing wait times and preventing family reunification for many sponsors and beneficiaries.
The new points-based employment system imposes strict caps, high wage floors, tight age and English requirements, and ties visa counts to DHS detention metrics—reducing overall visa availability and favoring large employers and high‑cost states while excluding many existing petitioners.
The Diversity Visa program is eliminated/repurposed: DV applicants are barred and many pending diversity-category petitions are invalidated or severely restricted, removing a long-standing pathway that supported immigrant-origin diversity and family ties.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Ends the diversity visa, narrows family immigration to spouses/children, creates a points‑based employment system with conditional 2‑year green cards, and adds employer/petitioner attestations and enforcement.
Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to protect American workers and values.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Barry Moore · Last progress April 29, 2026
Rewrites large parts of the immigration system by ending the diversity visa lottery, narrowing family‑based immigration to spouses and minor children (removing parents), creating a new points‑based employment immigrant program with conditional two‑year status, and imposing new employer and petitioner attestation, enforcement, and penalties. It also caps or reallocates visa categories, ties annual numerical limits to detention/parole metrics, and restricts public‑education and in‑state tuition benefits for people not lawfully admitted for permanent residence. The bill adds civil penalties and enforcement authorities for employer attestation violations, requires petitioners to attest to adherence to certain values and nonparticipation in specified violent or discriminatory practices, and sets new procedures for conditional lawful permanent residence for points‑based immigrants, including termination rules if attestations are violated or means‑tested benefits are received. Several changes take effect on enactment and pending petitions in some categories are barred or reclassified under the new rules.