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This bill provides a fast, streamlined path to permanent residency and temporary protections (work authorization and stays of removal) for eligible Haitian nationals, improving stability for families while producing fiscal costs, administrative burdens, and concerns about eligibility oversight and the role of prior immigration court findings.
Eligible Haitian nationals (and qualifying family members) who have been continuously present since June 26, 2024 can apply to become lawful permanent residents, giving them a clear path to green cards and the rights and stability that come with permanent residency.
Applicants granted adjustment will have prior final removal, deportation, or exclusion orders cancelled, restoring permanent-resident rights and protections for those individuals.
Applicants whose adjustment applications have been pending for more than 180 days are authorized to work in the U.S., improving income stability for immigrant families while adjudications proceed.
U.S. taxpayers may incur significant costs to process large numbers of applications, issue work authorizations, and grant green cards, creating a fiscal impact on federal resources.
Excluding certain inadmissibility grounds could allow some applicants with prior fraud or misrepresentation issues to adjust status, raising concerns about the integrity of eligibility and potential unfairness to others.
Allowing adjustments without requiring motions to reopen or re-litigating prior removal findings may limit the role of immigration courts' prior fact-finding and could complicate enforcement of earlier removal determinations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a three-year, limited adjustment-of-status path to lawful permanent residency for qualifying Haitian nationals and certain family members present since June 26, 2024, with specified admissibility rules and exceptions.
Official title: To provide for adjustment of status for certain nationals of Haiti, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 25, 2026 by Frederica Wilson · Last progress June 25, 2026
Allows certain Haitian nationals (and specified other aliens) who have been continuously present in the United States since June 26, 2024 to apply for adjustment to lawful permanent resident (LPR) status within three years of enactment. Applications are subject to admissibility but waive several specified inadmissibility grounds; applicants with aggravated felony convictions, multiple crimes involving moral turpitude, or persecution participation are ineligible. If an applicant previously had a final removal/deportation/exclusion order, a successful adjustment cancels that order; a denial leaves it in place. The Secretary of Homeland Security must issue regulations for stays of removal for applicants with final orders and define acceptable brief or authorized travel that does not break continuous presence.