Sponsor
Diana DeGette
Representative · D-CO
Representative · D-CO
The bill grants lawful permanent residency to a named individual and provides a clear two‑year filing window, delivering certainty and life‑changing relief for her while slightly reducing one country’s visa quota, blocking family‑derived benefits, and raising fairness concerns about case‑specific private relief.
Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez can obtain lawful permanent resident (green card) status if she files within two years, and if she entered before the filing deadline she will be treated as having entered and remained lawfully as of enactment, preserving her eligibility to adjust status under INA §245.
The bill creates a clear, time‑limited (two-year) filing window that gives the applicant predictable timing and certainty about required actions to obtain status.
Because she will receive an immigrant visa, one visa from her birth country's annual numerical limit is used, slightly reducing the available quota for other applicants from that country.
Her parents and siblings are explicitly barred from deriving immigration benefits through her, removing a family‑reunification pathway for them.
This is individualized (private) immigration relief that may be perceived as preferential compared with ordinary adjudication or backlogs, raising fairness and equity concerns among other applicants and the public.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Provides one named individual a path to an immigrant visa or adjustment to lawful permanent resident status if she files within two years, and counts the visa against her birth-country quota.
Official title: For the relief of Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez.
Introduced July 25, 2025 by Diana DeGette · Last progress July 25, 2025
Grants Jeanette Vizguerra-Ramirez the right to apply for and receive an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status if she files the required application and pays fees within two years of the law taking effect. If she entered the U.S. before filing, the bill treats her as having entered and remained lawfully and eligible for adjustment as of enactment, reduces the visa quota for her birth country by one when a visa is issued, and prevents her parents, siblings, and brothers/sisters from deriving any immigration status through her.