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The bill seeks to impose an oath-based allegiance requirement that gives immigration officials a clearer adjudication standard, but it risks coercing religious belief, discriminating against Muslim-background applicants, reducing sibling-family immigration, and triggering litigation and administrative burdens.
Consular and DHS adjudicators get an explicit statutory standard (an oath/pledge of allegiance) to evaluate applicants' stated allegiance, which can simplify decisionmaking and create clearer grounds for approvals or denials.
Prospective visa applicants would be required to pledge allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, which signals a formal commitment to constitutional governance for immigrants who take the oath.
Immigrants could be forced to accept or reject religious concepts (e.g., disavowal of sharia), raising a serious risk of violating the First Amendment by conditioning immigration benefits on religious belief and exposing the government to major litigation and legal costs.
Family-based immigration under the sibling preference would be narrowed, reducing the number of admitted siblings and increasing family separations, appeals, and related hardship for U.S. families and immigrant relatives.
The requirement would disproportionately burden people from Muslim-majority backgrounds by effectively penalizing religious beliefs or identity (e.g., relating to sharia), raising discrimination and civil-rights concerns.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Adds a requirement that siblings applying for a family-preference immigrant visa must disavow sharia law and swear an oath to uphold the Constitution.
Official title: To require certain aliens to disavow sharia law and take an oath to uphold the Constitution, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 12, 2026 by Barry Moore · Last progress May 12, 2026
Adds a new eligibility rule for the family-based immigrant visa category for brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens: applicants would have to publicly disavow sharia law and swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution in order to receive a visa. The bill narrows who can receive that specific family-preference visa by imposing this affirmative statement and oath requirement on applicants.