Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2025

Allows eligible noncitizen veterans and current service members to avoid immigration removal, obtain lawful permanent resident status, and regain access to military and veterans benefits. It requires the Department of Homeland Security and the Attorney General to set up the program, reopen and review certain removal cases, and adopt implementing rules quickly (regulations due within 90 days; program actions within 180 days). The law bars removal of veterans and service members except for convictions for specified crimes of violence, creates pathways to naturalization by crediting service, restores benefits lost because of prior removal or inadmissibility, and requires DHS to identify, annotate, and track service members’ and veterans’ immigration records before pursuing removal.