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Official title: To provide for a limitation on the ability to issue any visa or provide any status under the immigration laws until certain conditions have been met.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Charles Roy · Last progress November 20, 2025
This bill tightens and narrows legal immigration channels and benefit eligibility—reducing certain federal expenditures and increasing local control—while causing widespread disruption to immigrants, families, students, employers, and public services and raising substantial rights, administrative, and health‑care risks.
U.S. taxpayers and federal budgets may see reduced spending on benefits for noncitizens while the statute's six conditions remain unmet, lowering some federal outlays.
Limits on adjustment of status and changes to visa issuance are intended to reduce chain migration and slow overall legal immigration intake, aligning admission priorities with sponsors' eligibility.
States and localities gain greater authority to restrict public-school access for undocumented children, increasing local control over K–12 education policy.
Noncitizen residents and many lawfully present immigrants would lose eligibility for major federal benefit programs (Medicare, Medicaid emergency care, SNAP, SSI, WIC, and others), increasing health and food insecurity for affected individuals and shifting uncompensated costs onto hospitals and states.
Children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents would be denied birthright citizenship unless a parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, creating risks of statelessness and prolonged legal uncertainty for affected children.
The bill retroactively revokes various pending immigration authorizations and selections (including pending adjustment applications, OPT authorizations, and some DV selections), abruptly disrupting employment, education, family plans, and housing that relied on those statuses.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Pauses most immigration admissions and many benefits until law meets six conditions, repeals the Diversity Visa program, ends OPT, and adds a large H‑1B employer fee.
Pauses most admissions of noncitizens and removes many immigration benefits until six specified legal changes are made, immediately narrows who can get U.S. status and certain public benefits, ends the Diversity Visa program, eliminates F‑1 OPT work authorization, and adds a large H‑1B employer fee starting FY2026. It also revokes pending applications (with fee refunds) and uses INA definitions for terms used in the Act.