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The bill offers a broad, faster pathway to conditional and (for many) full lawful permanent residence—providing stability and procedural protections for longtime child arrivals and DACA recipients—while creating significant administrative burdens, privacy risks, fee-related hardship for some, and time‑limited/status restrictions that could leave many applicants in prolonged uncertainty.
Long-term residents who arrived as children (including many DACA recipients) can obtain conditional lawful permanent resident status and many have a clear pathway to full LPR, providing work authorization and greater stability.
Low-income youth, homeless youth, applicants with serious disabilities, and those with high medical debt can qualify for fee exemptions or substantiate hardship claims, reducing upfront financial barriers to applying.
A broad range of identity and presence evidence (passports, state IDs, school/military/employment records, medical/bank records, affidavits) is accepted, easing eligibility for applicants who lack formal documentation.
Expanded eligibility, broad documentary acceptance, and no numerical cap are likely to generate very large application volumes that increase DHS/USCIS and immigration court workloads, risking longer backlogs, slower decisions, and inconsistent adjudications.
Collecting and permitting use of sensitive records (medical, financial, school, military) combined with statutory exceptions for sharing with law‑enforcement/national‑security entities increases privacy exposure and could lead to broader-than-intended use of applicant data.
Processing fees and the way 'applicable Federal tax liability' is defined (including penalties/interest), plus exemption thresholds (150% FPL, $10,000 medical debt), mean out‑of‑pocket costs remain for many and could deter marginally needy eligible applicants.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Creates an 8‑year conditional green card and a clear pathway to full lawful permanent residence for qualifying childhood arrivals, with documentation rules, fee waivers, and privacy protections.
Official title: Authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain individuals who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress December 4, 2025
Creates a new pathway for certain people who arrived in the U.S. as children to get conditional lawful permanent resident status and, later, full lawful permanent resident status. It lets eligible long-term childhood arrivals (including many DACA recipients and some TPS holders) apply for cancellation of removal and a conditional green card, sets eligibility rules (presence, age at entry, criminal bars), defines documentary proof they may use, and establishes an 8-year conditional status with a clear route to remove the conditional basis and obtain full lawful permanent residence based on education, military service, or work. The bill requires DHS to publish interim regulations within 90 days so people can apply immediately, limits use of application information for immigration enforcement, authorizes fee waivers for low-income and vulnerable applicants, and includes procedural protections such as notice and a hearing before termination of conditional status.