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Official title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a national-interest standard for immigration, end certain family-sponsored immigration categories, revise standards relating to good moral character, eliminate the diversity immigrant category, revise public-charge and sponsor-support rules, revise naturalization requirements, reform employment-based immigration and H-1B visas, eliminate Optional Practical Training absent express statutory authorization, revise asylum procedures, require employment eligibility verification, establish additional penalties relating to unlawful presence and visa overstays, revise parole authority, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 14, 2026 by Andy Ogles · Last progress May 14, 2026
The bill trades broader family reunification, asylum access, and more permissive naturalization and benefit rules for tighter, merit- and taxpayer-protection focused immigration controls—improving adjudicative consistency and prioritizing high-value workers while imposing substantial new barriers, enforcement, and costs on many immigrants, sponsors, employers, and local systems.
Immigrants, applicants, and adjudicators will face clearer, more consistent rules and documentation requirements—objective-evidence standards, checklists, recordings, QA, tax-transcript checks, and annual reporting increase transparency and reduce arbitrary decisions.
Employers and U.S. labor markets could gain a clearer pathway for admitting high-value workers via an employment-based national-interest certification and objective salary/shortage criteria, prioritizing applicants who demonstrably advance economic, scientific, or security interests.
U.S. citizens aged 21+ can temporarily bring parents to the U.S. under a defined 5-year nonimmigrant status, creating a limited family-reunification option for parents.
Millions of family members and prospective immigrants will lose or have severely curtailed family‑based immigration options (parents, adult children, many siblings) and the Diversity Visa program is eliminated, sharply reducing family reunification and immigrant diversity.
Asylum seekers (including children and vulnerable people) face much higher barriers—transit-country bars, a stricter credible-fear standard, loss of automatic work authorization, and expanded family detention—greatly reducing access to protection.
Longtime lawful residents will find naturalization substantially harder or impossible due to a 10-year continuous-residence/physical-presence requirement, permanent bar for felony convictions, misdemeanor disqualifiers, higher English standard, and stricter documentary rules.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Overhauls immigration law toward a merit/economic standard: narrows family visas, tightens public‑charge and naturalization rules, restricts asylum, mandates E‑Verify, and alters H‑2A wages.
Rewrites large parts of U.S. immigration law to prioritize a merit/economic standard and restrict family‑based and humanitarian admissions. It narrows family‑preference visas, creates a temporary nonimmigrant parent category with strict limits, tightens public‑charge and naturalization good‑moral‑character rules, raises English and residence requirements for citizenship, tightens asylum and expedited‑removal standards and detention rules, mandates universal E‑Verify for employers, and changes H‑2A wage methodology. Most changes take effect on enactment and require DHS reporting on economic and public‑charge impacts.