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This bill grants lawful permanent resident status to two named individuals using existing visa numbers—providing them stability and relief from removal risks while modestly reducing visa availability for others and limiting family-derived benefits, raising fairness concerns.
Ruslana Melnyk and Mykhaylo Gnatyuk can become lawful permanent residents if they file within two years, giving them immigration stability, work authorization eligibility, and access to related benefits.
If those beneficiaries entered the U.S. before the filing deadline, their prior entry will be treated as lawful for adjustment purposes, avoiding removal barriers that might otherwise block their status change.
The adjustment uses existing immigrant visa numbers (reducing the country allocation by two) rather than creating new visa slots, limiting broader impacts on the overall visa cap and government immigration accounting.
Other applicants from the beneficiaries' birth country lose two available visa slots, potentially delaying family- or employment-based immigrants from that country.
Natural parents, brothers, and sisters of the named beneficiaries are barred from deriving immigration benefits through them, restricting family reunification opportunities for those relatives.
The benefit is narrowly tailored to named individuals, which could be perceived as preferential treatment and raise concerns about equal-treatment principles in immigration policy.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Grants lawful permanent resident status to two named individuals if they meet filing and entry conditions and deducts two immigrant visas from the applicable numerical allocation.
Introduced February 18, 2025 by Danny K. Davis · Last progress February 18, 2025
Grants lawful permanent resident status to two named individuals if they meet specified filing, fee, and entry conditions, and reduces the applicable immigrant visa numbers by two in the current or next fiscal year. It also prevents their natural parents, brothers, and sisters from receiving preferential immigration benefits based on these adjustments.