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Official title: To provide for conditional lawful permanent residency for certain aliens.
Introduced September 2, 2025 by Gabriel Vasquez · Last progress September 2, 2025
The bill creates a targeted, faster route to temporary lawful permanent status, work authorization, and eventual green cards for eligible workers—especially in critical sectors—while imposing strict eligibility, criminal bars, fees, and a period of deportability that will leave some vulnerable applicants excluded or at risk.
Immigrants meeting eligibility can obtain 2‑year conditional lawful permanent status with work authorization, allowing legal employment, income stability, and access to benefits tied to LPR status.
Workers in designated sectors (e.g., health care, agriculture, caregiving) gain a clear pathway toward permanent residence, helping address workforce shortages in those industries.
Adjustments under this provision are exempt from worldwide numerical limits, reducing visa backlogs and enabling more timely issuance of green cards for eligible applicants.
Immigrants with certain criminal convictions (a felony or multiple misdemeanors) are categorically barred from eligibility, excluding many with past convictions from relief.
Strict continuous‑presence and employment thresholds (initial 100 days and 100 days per year) may disqualify precarious, intermittently employed, or caregiving workers who cannot meet those sustained-work requirements.
Conditional residents remain subject to deportability during the 2‑year period under INA section 237, risking removal for violations before they can obtain full LPR status.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a 2-year conditional lawful permanent resident status with work authorization and a direct path to adjust to a green card for qualifying individuals present Jan 1, 2024.
Creates a new 2-year conditional lawful permanent resident classification that grants concurrent work authorization and establishes a pathway to full lawful permanent resident status for certain noncitizens present in the United States on January 1, 2024. It sets eligibility and ongoing requirements tied to physical presence, criminal inadmissibility standards (with limited waiver authority), and minimum employment thresholds in covered professions, and exempts successful adjustees from worldwide visa-number limits when they apply for permanent status under this authority.