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Introduced June 18, 2025 by Christopher Van Hollen · Last progress June 18, 2025
The bill creates a substantial, more accessible path from TPS/deferred statuses to lawful permanent residence—reducing family separation and immediate enforcement risk—while trading off faster implementation and expanded eligibility against heavier administrative burdens, potential public-safety concerns, concentrated executive authority, and continued costs and legal uncertainty for some applicants.
TPS holders and those who qualified for related deferred statuses can become lawful permanent residents (LPRs), gaining stable immigration status and a clear path to permanence.
People who file under the new adjustment process are protected from removal while applications are pending and may work during adjudication; application data is also shielded from routine immigration-enforcement use, reducing immediate enforcement risk and economic disruption.
Spouses, partners, and qualifying children of approved applicants can also obtain LPR status, reducing family separation and supporting household stability.
A large expansion of eligibility and new adjustment pathways will increase USCIS/DHS caseloads and administrative complexity, likely producing significant backlogs and slower adjudications for many applicants.
Waiving certain inadmissibility grounds and restricting routine use of application data for enforcement could create gaps that some view as public-safety or law-enforcement risks and may make removing non-immigration-felony criminals harder in some cases.
Consolidating decision authority in DHS and imposing a 3-day reporting requirement for TPS terminations concentrates power in an executive department and may produce rushed or incomplete analyses, reducing independent oversight and increasing rights-risk for affected people.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new pathway to lawful permanent resident status for certain noncitizens in the U.S., limits use of application data for enforcement, and adds a 3-day TPS termination report to Congress.
Creates a new pathway for certain noncitizens to apply for lawful permanent resident (green card) status based on presence in the United States (with a limited exception for some who departed or were removed after Sept 28, 2016). Caps the application fee, provides fee waivers for low-income and vulnerable applicants, and narrows the definition of qualifying convictions. Bars applicants with specified criminal, inadmissibility, or deportability grounds. Limits DHS use and disclosure of information submitted with applications for immigration enforcement and establishes a penalty for unlawful disclosure. Also moves certain Temporary Protected Status (TPS) authorities to DHS and requires a rapid (3-day) report to Congress when DHS terminates a TPS designation, with specific reporting elements. The Act preserves existing DHS authorities and lets eligible people seek any other legal immigration path for which they qualify.