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The bill creates a time‑limited, expedited pathway granting conditional lawful status and work authorization to many immigrants—helping critical sectors and reducing visa‑backlog barriers—while imposing strict eligibility thresholds, criminal bars, fees, and continued deportability during the conditional period.
Immigrants who meet the bill's requirements can obtain 2‑year conditional lawful permanent resident status with work authorization, enabling legal employment, income stability, and access to benefits during that period.
Workers in specified sectors (e.g., health care, agriculture, caregiving) gain a clear pathway to permanent residence, which helps address workforce shortages in those critical industries.
Adjustments made under this section are exempted from worldwide numerical limits, allowing many qualifying applicants to receive green cards without waiting for visa backlogs to clear.
Immigrants must satisfy continuous‑presence and employment thresholds (initial 100 days and then 100 days per year), which will exclude precarious, intermittent, or otherwise unstable workers.
Applicants with a felony or multiple misdemeanor convictions are barred, making many people with past convictions ineligible for the pathway.
Required application fees and additional background investigations will impose costs and potential delays, creating financial and administrative burdens for applicants and their families.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a two-year conditional permanent-resident status with work authorization and a path to full green card status for certain immigrants present on Jan 1, 2024 who meet presence and work tests.
Introduced September 2, 2025 by Gabriel Vasquez · Last progress September 2, 2025
Creates a new two-year “conditional lawful permanent resident” status that includes work authorization and a route to full lawful permanent residency for certain noncitizens who were physically present in the U.S. on January 1, 2024 and meet continuous-presence and employment thresholds. Applicants must file, pay fees, pass a background check, and not be barred by specified criminal or security grounds (though some inadmissibility grounds may be waived for humanitarian, family-unity, or public-interest reasons). During the two-year conditional period recipients must remain physically present and work a minimum number of days in a covered profession each year. At the end of the two years the Department must convert eligible recipients to full lawful permanent resident status (and such adjustments are exempt from worldwide numerical limits), unless the recipient timely objects; certain criminal convictions or inadmissibility grounds still bar adjustment.