Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929
This bill expands eligibility for a program that authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to, at its discretion, provide lawful permanent resident status to certain long-term residents of the United States, including individuals who are unlawfully present.
Currently, this program, sometimes referred to as the Registry program, is only available to eligible non-U.S. nationals (aliens under federal law) who entered the United States before January 1, 1972. The bill removes this entry cutoff date and opens up the program to eligible individuals who have resided in the United States for at least seven years.
Existing requirements (e.g., the individual must not be inadmissible or deportable due to certain grounds related to crime or terrorism) continue to apply.
To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render 
   available to certain long-term residents of the United States the 
                      benefit under that section.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Renewing Immigration Provisions of 
the Immigration Act of 1929''.

SEC. 2. REGISTRY.

    (a) In General.--Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1259) is amended--
            (1) in the section header, by striking ``entered the united 
        states prior to july 1, 1924 or january 1, 1972''; and 
        inserting ``are long-term residents of the united states''; and
            (2) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
            ``(a) entered the United States at least 7 years before the 
        application date;''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929
A bill to amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render available to certain long-term residents of the United States the benefit under that section.
Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929
Sen. Padilla, Alex