Sponsors (3)
The bill trades a simplification of immigration categories and potential oversight gains for the repeal of U nonimmigrant status—reducing protections for crime victims, risking lower cooperation with law enforcement, and creating sizable administrative and fiscal burdens.
Immigrants subject to prior U-status and DHS/consular officers: the bill would remove U as a special statutory category, simplifying immigration status lists and helping adjudicators apply more uniform standards across nonimmigrant classifications.
Immigrant crime victims who genuinely cooperated with law enforcement: the bill’s findings recognize the U visa’s original intent, preserving a legal pathway (for those identified as genuine cooperating victims) in the legislative record.
Taxpayers and immigrants: highlighting fraud and OIG/DOJ investigations in the bill could prompt stronger oversight and fraud-prevention measures at USCIS.
Immigrants currently in or eligible for U nonimmigrant status: repeal would remove statutory protections and a pathway to work authorization and adjustment, putting many at risk of losing benefits or being placed in removal proceedings.
Hundreds of thousands of pending applicants, USCIS/DHS/EOIR, and taxpayers: repealing U-status would create legal uncertainty for roughly 400,000 pending cases, shift caseloads to alternative processes, increase enforcement and adjudication workloads, and impose substantial administrative burdens on agencies.
Taxpayers and government budgets: the transition, increased enforcement, and potential litigation resulting from repeal could raise fiscal and administrative costs for taxpayers and agencies.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Removes the U nonimmigrant (U visa) classification and deletes related references across the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Official title: To repeal section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 30, 2026 by Charles Roy · Last progress April 30, 2026
Repeals the U nonimmigrant visa classification and removes related statutory references across the Immigration and Nationality Act. The bill eliminates the U visa program that currently provides deferred action, work authorization, and a path to lawful permanent residence for certain victims of qualifying crimes and makes conforming edits to multiple INA provisions that referenced the U classification. The bill is limited to statutory repeal and textual conforming amendments; it does not create replacement programs or appropriations in the text provided. The change removes eligibility and procedural references to U visas in admissions, adjustment, and waiver provisions, which will narrow benefits and pathways previously available to applicants and their derivatives.