Sponsor
Seth Moulton
Representative · D-MA
Representative · D-MA
The bill provides a narrowly targeted path to lawful permanent residence and record-clearing for one named immigrant in exchange for a single visa slot, a strict two-year filing deadline, and an explicit bar on her sponsoring certain close relatives.
Sindy Gualdina Rodriguez-Fernandez can obtain an immigrant visa or adjust to lawful permanent resident status if she files within 2 years, giving her a clear path to LPR despite certain INA bars.
She is protected from removal, denial of admission, or ineligibility based on INA §§212(a) or 237(a) grounds reflected in DHS/State records as of enactment, which reduces the risk of deportation and related immigration consequences for her.
If she entered the U.S. before the filing deadline and files in time, she will be treated as lawfully admitted and may adjust status under INA §245 as of enactment, avoiding unlawful-presence bars to adjustment.
The relief explicitly bars preferential immigration benefits derived from her status for her natural parents, brothers, and sisters, preventing these relatives from using her new status to sponsor them.
The special eligibility is conditioned on filing within 2 years; if she fails to file in that window she forfeits the relief and previous grounds of inadmissibility or removal remain in effect.
Granting her LPR status uses one numerical immigrant visa from her country’s annual limit, reducing the number of visas available to other applicants by one.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Allows Sindy Gualdina Rodriguez-Fernandez to receive an immigrant visa or adjust to LPR with conditions, rescinds related removal actions, and deducts one visa from her country’s cap.
Official title: For the relief of Sindy Gualdina Rodriguez-Fernandez.
Introduced September 15, 2026 by Seth Moulton · Last progress September 15, 2026
Grants Sindy Gualdina Rodriguez-Fernandez eligibility for an immigrant visa or to adjust to lawful permanent resident status regardless of certain numeric limits, and treats her as lawfully admitted for adjustment if she entered the United States before the filing deadline and otherwise qualifies. It bars removal or denial of admission based on Department of Homeland Security or State Department records as of enactment, requires DHS to rescind related removal orders or findings, requires the beneficiary to file within two years, and counts one immigrant visa against her country’s numerical limit while denying family-preference benefits for her natural parents and siblings.