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Introduced December 4, 2025 by Richard Joseph Durbin · Last progress December 4, 2025
Creates a new legal pathway for people who entered the United States as children to stop removal and obtain conditional lawful permanent resident status for eight years, with later paths to full permanent residency after meeting education, military, or work requirements. Sets eligibility rules (continuous presence, age at entry, criminal and admissibility bars, education or service tests), fee rules and exemptions, privacy protections for applicants, expedited rulemaking, and procedures for converting conditional status to full lawful permanent residence.
The bill creates broad, partially fee‑exempt pathways to time‑limited lawful permanent residence (and related work and confidentiality protections) for long‑term childhood arrivals and other eligible people, but significant vetting requirements, agency discretion, narrow exemptions, and expedited rulemaking create risks of delays, exclusions, and inconsistent implementation.
Long-term childhood arrivals who meet the bill's criteria (including many DACA beneficiaries) gain a clear path to conditional lawful permanent residence, replacing unstable protections with an 8-year status.
People who meet education, military, or work pathways can obtain lawful permanent residence without needing sponsor petitions, creating a direct route to stability for eligible applicants including veterans and students.
Children enrolled in school (age ≥5) get a stay of removal plus the ability to obtain work authorization, letting students remain in the U.S. and legally work while their cases proceed.
Applicants must clear multiple security, law-enforcement, medical, biometric, and Selective Service checks—requirements that are likely to create administrative bottlenecks and materially delay relief for many people.
Criminal‑eligibility bars (aggravated felonies, multiple offenses) and other security disqualifications remain and will exclude or remove some applicants, leaving people with past convictions without relief.
Significant discretion for the Secretary—power to extend/terminate status and to later prohibit certain document types after notice—creates risk of inconsistent application and sudden rules that could disqualify applicants who relied on prior guidance.