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Introduced December 11, 2025 by Scott Peters · Last progress December 11, 2025
The bill tightens fiscal and immigration safeguards for short family visits—through sponsor financial commitments, mandatory insurance, and a 90‑day cap—reducing risks to taxpayers and overstays but increasing costs, administrative burdens, and permanent barriers that can constrain family reunification and flexibility.
Taxpayers and the public: Requires sponsors to provide a financial declaration and limits family-purpose visits, reducing the risk that visitors become long-term public-charge burdens on taxpayers.
Visitors and public health systems: Requires short-term international medical insurance for family-purpose visitors, lowering the likelihood that visitors rely on U.S. public health services.
U.S. immigration enforcement and integrity: Limits family-purpose visits to 90 days per calendar year, reducing opportunities for long-term overstays and unlawful presence.
Families with prior overstays: Prohibits petitioning for a relative after a prior overstay in some cases, potentially creating permanent barriers to reuniting families through the family-purpose route.
Visitors who wish to change status: Adds a category (B(iii)) barred from change of status, forcing some visitors to leave the U.S. to pursue other immigration paths and increasing travel and legal costs.
Families needing longer stays for caregiving or medical reasons: The 90-day cap reduces flexibility and may prevent needed extended visits for caregiving, recovery, or family support.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a new B visitor subcategory for family visits with a 90-day annual limit, sponsor financial support declaration, required travel/medical insurance, departure oath, and restricted change-of-status.
Creates a new B nonimmigrant visitor subcategory for short-term family visits called a “family purposes” B visa and adds rules and limits for that category. The bill requires a sponsoring petitioner (or additional sponsor) to file a financial support declaration, requires the visitor to carry short-term travel or international medical insurance, requires a sworn intent to depart and awareness of overstay penalties, limits admission to 90 days per calendar year, and bars change of status to most other nonimmigrant classes for these admissions.