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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
The bill shifts U.S. immigration toward a merit‑and‑enforcement model that increases protections for certain workers and high‑skill admissions while tightening family‑based, diversity, and lower‑skill pathways and imposing new costs and administrative burdens on employers, states, and vulnerable immigrant families.
Unemployed U.S. workers and middle‑class families gain stronger protection: employers must document recruitment, offer jobs to equally or better qualified U.S. applicants, and displaced workers can pursue binding arbitration and remedial orders (including hiring or back pay).
High‑skill immigrant applicants and U.S. employers gain a clearer, faster, merit‑based green card route: a points rubric, regular selection rounds, tie‑break rules, and prioritization for STEM/advanced degrees increase predictability for recruiting top talent and may boost competitiveness.
Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens retain immediate‑relative status and a defined annual cap, preserving nuclear family unity for spouses/children and improving visa predictability.
Employment‑based applicants and many prospective immigrants face reduced access and greater exclusion: the bill caps annual employment admissions, raises high wage/age/English thresholds, and may invalidate existing employment petitions, favoring large employers and high‑cost states while excluding older, lower‑wage, or less‑English‑proficient applicants.
U.S. citizens who sponsor parents and many family‑based applicants lose a key reunification route: parents are removed from the immediate‑relative category, many pending/new family filings are invalidated, and family visa supply is reduced leading to longer waits or denials.
The Diversity Visa lottery and many pending diversity‑category petitions are eliminated or sharply curtailed, removing a long‑standing pathway that provided geographic diversity and opportunity to tens of thousands of applicants annually.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Abolishes the diversity visa, narrows family sponsorship to spouses/children, creates a points‑based employment immigrant system with conditional status, adds employer and petitioner attestations, and raises tuition charges for non‑LPR aliens.
Makes sweeping changes to U.S. immigration law by replacing the diversity visa program, narrowing family-based immigration to spouses and minor children, creating a new points-based employment immigrant category with two‑year conditional lawful permanent residence, imposing employer attestation and enforcement requirements to protect U.S. workers, and restricting access to in‑state/public education pricing for aliens not lawfully admitted for permanent residence. It also creates new petitioner attestation requirements related to extremist or discriminatory conduct and reallocates and caps visa categories with numeric ceilings tied to specific deductions.