To provide benefits for noncitizen members of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to jointly study and report to Congress on noncitizen veterans deported since 1990, including their service records, removal grounds, benefits, requires DHS to create a protocol for identifying noncitizen veterans and a cross-agency information system shared across ICE, OPLA, HSI, and the Advisory Committee, and establishes a 9-member Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee under DHS to review cases of veterans, service members, and their family members facing removal proceedings. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, exemptions, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Immigration, Defense, and Finance.
Who Benefits and How
Noncitizen veterans in the immigration system could face reduced risk, Noncitizen veterans and service members in removal proceedings could face reduced risk, and Immediate family members of citizen service members and veterans could face reduced risk.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Department of Homeland Security would take on compliance duties, DHS and ICE (system development, training, process changes) would take on compliance duties, and Immigration enforcement officers would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to jointly study and report to Congress on noncitizen veterans deported since 1990, including their service records, removal grounds, benefits...
- Requires DHS to create a protocol for identifying noncitizen veterans and a cross-agency information system shared across ICE, OPLA, HSI, and the Advisory Committee.
- Establishes a 9-member Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee under DHS to review cases of veterans, service members, and their family members facing removal proceedings.
- Creates a program ensuring noncitizen service members can apply for naturalization from their first day of active duty or Selected Reserve service, requires JAG officers to serve as USCIS liaisons, mandates recruiter...
- Exempts allows deported noncitizen veterans to return to the United States and receive lawful permanent residence.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to jointly study and report to Congress on noncitizen veterans deported since 1990, including their service records, removal grounds, benefits, requires DHS to create a protocol for identifying noncitizen veterans and a cross-agency information system shared across ICE, OPLA, HSI, and the Advisory Committee, and establishes a 9-member Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee under DHS to review cases of veterans, service members, and their family members facing removal proceedings.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Defense, Finance
Primary Purpose
The bill requires the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to jointly study and report to Congress on noncitizen veterans deported since 1990, including their service records, removal grounds, benefits, requires DHS to create a protocol for identifying noncitizen veterans and a cross-agency information system shared across ICE, OPLA, HSI, and the Advisory Committee, and establishes a 9-member Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee under DHS to review cases of veterans, service members, and their family members facing removal proceedings.
Policy Domains
Section 2 - Study and Report
Identified Gains
- Noncitizen veterans in the immigration system
- Noncitizen veterans and service members in removal proceedings
- Immediate family members of citizen service members and veterans
- Deported noncitizen veterans who served honorably
- Noncitizen military family members in removal proceedings
Identified Costs
- Department of Homeland Security
- DHS and ICE (system development, training, process changes)
- Immigration enforcement officers
- Immigration enforcement (ICE)
- DHS (establishing procedures and processing applications)
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Takano (for himself, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Correa, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
DHS (establishing procedures and processing applications), DHS and ICE (system development, training, process changes), Department of Defense
Deported noncitizen veterans, Deported noncitizen veterans who served honorably, Immediate family members of citizen service members and veterans
Judge Advocate General Corps, Military recruiters, Noncitizen members of the Armed Forces
Positive-direction: Noncitizen members of the Armed Forces
Negative-direction: Judge Advocate General Corps
Immigration attorneys representing deported veterans, Immigration attorneys serving military families
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary_va"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- "the_secretary_dhs"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_secretary_dod"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "the_secretary_dhs"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_secretary_dhs"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_advisory_committee"
- → Military Family Immigration Advisory Committee
- "the_secretary_dhs"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "the_secretary_dod"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "the_secretary_dod"
- → Secretary of Defense
- "the_secretary_dhs"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
Note: 'The Secretary' refers to different officials in different sections: Secretary of Defense (Section 2, 5), Secretary of Homeland Security (Sections 3, 4, 7), and Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Section 2)
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Has the meaning given in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
An individual who is not a citizen or national of the United States.
Has the meaning given in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.
The noncitizen spouse or noncitizen child of a member of the Armed Forces or a veteran.
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