Sponsor
Andy Harris
Representative · R-MD
Representative · R-MD
The bill secures lawful status for one named individual and preserves overall visa caps by subtracting one country allocation, trading a narrow, concrete benefit for one person against concerns about unequal treatment, a small displacement of one visa slot, and potential administrative precedent.
Dr. Yue‑Cheng Yang (an individual immigrant) can apply for and receive an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status and has any outstanding removal/inadmissibility findings rescinded, allowing him to remain and work legally in the U.S.
The bill preserves overall visa numerical limits by reducing the country's visa allocation by one (rather than increasing total visas), limiting broader impacts on immigration quotas.
Immigrants and the public — the bill creates a one‑person exemption to statutory immigration requirements, which may be perceived as unequal treatment under immigration law.
Department of Homeland Security and immigration adjudicators — granting retroactive lawful entry and adjustment could complicate recordkeeping, set an administrative precedent, and increase workload by encouraging similar requests.
Applicants from the same country — reducing that country's visa allocation by one shifts an available visa away from other applicants, potentially delaying or denying one person's opportunity.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Provides a named individual eligibility for an immigrant visa or adjustment to LPR status, rescinds related removal findings, and charges one visa to the country cap.
Official title: For the relief of Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang.
Introduced February 3, 2026 by Andy Harris · Last progress February 3, 2026
Grants Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang eligibility to receive an immigrant visa or to adjust status to lawful permanent resident despite numerical limits and certain inadmissibility findings in the Immigration and Nationality Act. It allows retroactive recognition of lawful entry if he entered before the filing deadline, bars removal or denial based on existing DHS or DOS Visa Office records, requires DHS to rescind related removal/deportation orders or inadmissibility findings, conditions the relief on submitting required applications and fees within two years of enactment, and charges one immigrant visa against the applicable country allotment.