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This bill provides targeted relief and administrative clarity to allow one named individual to remain and seek permanent residence, while imposing limited costs: it reduces one family‑based visa for her country, blocks derivative family benefits, and raises fairness concerns about making individualized exceptions by legislation.
Ivana Sifuentes Arbirio (the named beneficiary) can have outstanding removal orders rescinded and may obtain an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite prior grounds of inadmissibility if she applies within two years, ending her immediate deportation risk and allowing her to pursue legal residence.
Consular officers and DHS adjudicators receive a clear, time-limited procedure to process the beneficiary's visa or adjustment application, providing administrative clarity for federal employees handling the case.
Other family‑based immigrant applicants from the beneficiary's country will have one fewer visa available, slightly lengthening waiting times for nationals from that country.
The beneficiary's parents and siblings are barred from deriving immigration benefits through her, removing a potential family reunification pathway for them.
Granting relief via a private bill that overrides INA inadmissibility or removal grounds for one individual may be perceived as unequal treatment compared with other immigrants who face similar grounds but lack legislative relief.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Allows Ivana Alexandra Sifuentes Arbirio to get an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite certain INA bars, waives related findings, and limits family-preference sponsorship.
Introduced June 10, 2025 by Jose Luis Correa · Last progress June 10, 2025
Grants Ivana Alexandra Sifuentes Arbirio the right to receive an immigrant visa or to adjust to lawful permanent resident status even if she would otherwise be barred under certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It waives the specified grounds of inadmissibility or deportability reflected in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Department of State Visa Office records as of enactment, requires DHS to rescind related removal or inadmissibility findings or orders, and limits family-preference immigration benefits for her parents and siblings. The relief is conditional on the beneficiary filing an application and paying any required fees within two years of the law taking effect; when status is granted, the Secretary of State must deduct one immigrant visa from the beneficiary’s country-of-birth allotment for the current or next fiscal year under the INA.