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Introduced September 16, 2025 by Seth Moulton · Last progress September 16, 2025
This bill grants a one‑off, discretionary pathway for a named individual to avoid removal and seek lawful permanent residence while preserving visa counts, but it denies family‑preference benefits to her relatives, reduces one visa slot for her birth country, imposes administrative costs with no dedicated funding, and raises equity concerns about individualized exceptions.
Blanca Martinez will have existing removal or inadmissibility orders rescinded, preventing her imminent deportation and allowing relief to proceed.
Blanca Martinez may apply for an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite prior inadmissibility and — if she entered before the filing deadline — is treated as having entered and remained lawfully as of enactment, enabling adjustment without a new entry.
The provision preserves overall immigrant visa numerical limits by reducing the country cap by one when she is granted a visa, avoiding an increase in visa allocations or shifts in overall visa counts.
Blanca Martinez's close relatives (parents, brothers, sisters) are barred from receiving family‑preference benefits through her, closing a pathway to family reunification for them.
Granting relief to one individual reduces the number of immigrant visas available to natives of her birth country by one, potentially delaying visa issuance for others from that country.
Processing applications and rescinding orders will create administrative costs for DHS/State and taxpayers, but the section does not appropriate funds to cover implementation.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Grants a single named individual, Blanca Martinez, an immigration waiver to apply for an immigrant visa or to adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite certain grounds of inadmissibility or prior removal. It directs agencies to treat her as having entered and remained lawfully for adjustment eligibility (if she entered before a filing deadline), requires DHS to rescind covered removal or inadmissibility orders, sets a two-year window to file with fees, and reduces the annual visa availability for her birth country by one while barring family-preference benefits for her parents and siblings.