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Introduced February 3, 2026 by Andy Harris · Last progress February 3, 2026
The bill provides lawful‑status relief for one named immigrant while offsetting the numerical visa impact by one slot, trading individualized relief for a narrow hit to other applicants and potential fairness and administrative concerns.
Dr. Yue‑Cheng Yang (a named immigrant) can apply for and receive an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status and related removal/inadmissibility findings are rescinded, allowing him to remain and work legally in the U.S.
The bill preserves overall visa numerical limits by reducing the country-of-birth visa allocation by one, limiting broader impacts on immigration quotas.
The one-person carve‑out grants a specific exemption from statutory immigration limits, creating unequal treatment under immigration law.
Retroactive recognition of lawful entry and adjustment could complicate DHS recordkeeping, create administrative precedent, and increase workload or encourage similar private-bill requests.
Reducing the country's visa allocation by one shifts opportunity away from other applicants from the same country, potentially delaying or denying someone else's visa by one spot.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Provides a named individual eligibility to seek an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent residence, rescinds certain removal findings, and reduces one visa from his country’s allocation.
Grants Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang a one-time exception to immigration law so he may seek an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status even though he does not meet certain numerical limits in the Immigration and Nationality Act. It requires DHS to treat his prior entry as lawful for purposes of adjustment if he entered the U.S. before filing, bars removal or denial based on current DHS or State Department visa records, and directs DHS to rescind any related removal or inadmissibility findings. Requires Dr. Yang to file the necessary immigration applications and pay required fees within two years of the law taking effect. To account for the extra visa granted, the Secretary of State must subtract one immigrant visa from the numerical allocation for Dr. Yang’s country of birth in the current or next fiscal year.