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Introduced May 15, 2025 by David Schweikert · Last progress May 15, 2025
The bill shifts U.S. immigration toward predictable, skills- and investment‑focused channels that benefit employers, high‑scoring applicants, and wealthy investors while substantially shrinking family‑, diversity‑, and refugee‑based pathways and raising equity, privacy, and administrative burdens.
High‑scoring prospective immigrants: creates a centralized points-based pathway to lawful permanent residence for applicants who meet the score thresholds, giving a clear, merit‑based route to green cards.
Employers (especially firms hiring skilled workers) and prospective H‑1B workers: increases predictability and flexibility for employers to recruit talent by creating defined H‑1B allocations, filing-window add‑ons, and points/salary attestations that prioritize higher‑skill, higher‑pay hires.
Government agencies, applicants, and resettlement planners: provides clearer, more predictable numerical limits and reporting rules across multiple visa categories (e.g., green‑card caps, H‑1B allocations, refugee cap), improving planning and transparency.
Immigrant families: significantly reduces family‑based green card availability and removes parents of U.S. citizens from the immediate‑relative category, tightening or blocking paths to permanent residence for many relatives.
Older applicants, foreign‑educated candidates, and lower‑wage employers: the points system, tie‑breaking rules favoring youth and U.S. degrees, and H‑1B prioritization by compensation disadvantage older/foreign‑trained workers and crowd out lower‑paying employers.
Diversity‑Visa‑eligible immigrants and underrepresented countries: elimination of the Diversity Visa removes an annual path for about 50,000 people from countries with low prior admission rates.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Overhauls immigration limits and categories: creates investor visas, ends the Diversity Visa, caps refugees, narrows family definitions, revises H‑1B and points-based allocations, and adds student and enforcement rules.
Creates multiple new immigration pathways and rewrites major visa limits: it authorizes 25,000 annual investor immigrant visas (FY2026–2035) for persons investing $5,000,000 who create at least 10 U.S. jobs; repeals the Diversity Visa program; caps annual refugee admissions at 50,000; narrows family-based definitions (lowers the "child" age and limits immediate relatives); establishes a large annual points-based immigrant cap with automatic upward/downward allocation adjustments; changes H‑1B caps and automatic allocation rules; requires schools enrolling F‑1/M‑1 students to mandate in-person attendance at least three days per week; directs DHS to use AI to identify overstays; and adds sponsor repayment rules that can bar naturalization if sponsors haven’t reimbursed the government for certain public benefits.