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The bill grants a narrowly targeted path to lawful permanent residence and clears removal records for one named individual, at the cost of blocking family-derived benefits, slightly reducing a country’s visa supply, and setting a precedent for ad hoc congressional immigration relief.
Ivana Sifuentes Arbirio (a named individual) can apply for and obtain lawful permanent residence despite prior inadmissibility or removal grounds if she files within two years; if she entered before filing she is retroactively treated as lawfully admitted and may adjust status as of enactment, and DHS must rescind outstanding removal/deportation orders and inadmissibility findings, clearing her U.
Parents, siblings, and other immediate family members cannot derive immigration benefits through her, removing a potential family-reunification pathway for them.
Providing individualized relief by statute creates a precedent for case-by-case congressional immigration grants, which may be viewed as ad hoc policymaking and could lead to more similar private bills in the future.
Granting her a visa reduces the number of immigrant visas available for her birth country by one in the current or next fiscal year, slightly lengthening wait times for other applicants from that country.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Provides a named individual an exception to certain INA bars to obtain an immigrant visa or adjust to permanent resident status, requires DHS to rescind adverse findings, and reduces the country’s visa allotment by one.
Introduced June 10, 2025 by Jose Luis Correa · Last progress June 10, 2025
Grants Ivana Alexandra Sifuentes Arbirio permission to apply for and receive an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite certain inadmissibility and deportability rules in the Immigration and Nationality Act, provided she files the required application and fees within two years of enactment. If she entered the United States before that filing deadline, she is treated as having entered and remained lawfully as of the date of enactment, and any existing DHS findings of removal, deportation, inadmissibility, or deportability must be rescinded. If an immigrant visa is issued under this provision, the Secretary of State will count that visa against the issuing country’s annual allocation (reducing the country’s available visas by one). The beneficiary’s natural parents, brothers, and sisters are barred from receiving immigration benefits or preference based on that relationship under this act.