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The bill creates a broad, fast pathway and procedural/privacy protections for many long-term childhood arrivals and similar applicants while expanding administrative responsibilities and federal costs, leaving significant eligibility, privacy, and implementation risks that will determine how many people actually benefit.
Long-term residents who entered as children (including many DACA recipients) gain a clear multi-step pathway to lawful permanent residency: conditional 8-year status, immediate application without removal proceedings, and potential removal of conditions to full LPR if they meet education, military, or work criteria, providing stability and work authorization.
Applicants receive procedural and privacy protections: notice and hearing before termination of conditional status, ability to apply for relief without being placed in removal proceedings, limits on using application data for immigration enforcement, and criminal penalties for unlawful disclosures.
Vulnerable applicants (minors, homeless youth, low‑income people, those with serious disabilities or high medical debt) are protected from some costs through fee exemptions and hardship allowances, lowering financial barriers to apply.
Millions of eligible applicants and broader eligibility (no numerical cap) are likely to increase application volumes and paperwork, straining DHS, immigration courts, and adjudicators and causing longer backlogs and processing delays.
Many applicants will still be excluded or left in precarious conditional status because of strict eligibility thresholds (education/military/work requirements), criminal bars, time-limited 8‑year status, inability to return to prior TPS if TPS ended, and a prohibition on naturalization while conditional.
Expanding eligibility and protections without a numerical cap, plus implementation costs (background checks, adjudications, privacy enforcement), will increase federal expenditures and administrative costs borne by taxpayers.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Creates an 8-year conditional green-card status and a pathway to full lawful permanent residency for people who entered the U.S. as children, with eligibility, documentation, fee, and privacy rules.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress December 4, 2025
Creates an eight-year conditional lawful permanent resident status and a process to grant permanent lawful residence to people who were brought to the U.S. as children and have lived here continuously for years. It sets eligibility rules, allowable criminal and inadmissibility exceptions, documentation standards, fee rules and privacy protections, and a later pathway to remove the conditional requirement and obtain full permanent residency. Requires the Department of Homeland Security to publish interim rules within 90 days so eligible people can apply immediately, establishes detailed evidence that applicants may use to prove identity and continuous presence, provides fee waivers and exemptions for low-income and vulnerable applicants, and prohibits using application information for immigration enforcement except in narrowly defined circumstances.