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Official title: To provide for adjustment of status of nationals of Ukraine, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 30, 2025 by William R. Keating · Last progress April 30, 2025
The bill expedites green-card eligibility, procedural protections, and fee relief for certain Ukrainian parolees to promote stability and family safety, while narrowing some eligibility paths and creating trade-offs for immigration visa availability and screening discretion.
Eligible Ukrainian nationals paroled into the U.S. can become lawful permanent residents, giving them stable immigration status, work authorization, and access to benefits.
Applicants are protected from removal while a bona fide application is pending and receive refugee-level vetting (including interviews), providing stronger procedural safeguards against wrongful removal.
Spouses and children who have been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty can still obtain adjustment protections, supporting family safety, reunification, and protection for victims.
Granting lawful permanent resident status to eligible Ukrainians exempt from overall numerical limits may reduce the pool of visas available to other family- and employment-based applicants.
Broad waiver authority for grounds of inadmissibility could weaken screening if misapplied, creating potential national security or public-safety risks.
Applicants who miss the one-year filing window generally forfeit eligibility and cannot obtain additional parole, putting some individuals and families at risk of removal despite other equities.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a pathway to lawful permanent residency for certain Ukrainian nationals paroled into the U.S. after Feb 20, 2014, with refugee-level vetting and limited inadmissibility waivers.
Grants lawful permanent resident status to certain Ukrainian nationals who were paroled into the United States after February 20, 2014 (or joined such parolees as spouses, children, or qualifying caregivers), provided they pass refugee-level vetting and national security checks. The Secretary of Homeland Security may waive most grounds of inadmissibility for humanitarian reasons or family unity, but cannot waive specified criminal grounds for offenses committed in the United States on or after February 20, 2014.