Afghan SIV Termination and Security Review Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill ends the Afghan Allies Protection Act SIV category by repealing section 602, blocking new filings after enactment, and closing all pending applications. It then requires DHS, with State and the Director of National Intelligence, to reassess every current Afghan SIV beneficiary within 18 months using biometric re-enrollment, updated criminal, terrorism, and intelligence checks, identity-document verification, service re-verification, and interviews when national-security indicators warrant. DHS must decide whether each beneficiary remains eligible, is inadmissible or removable, committed fraud or concealment, or raises security concerns, then pursue rescission and removal when triggered. Remaining Afghan SIV appropriations are shifted to VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
Who Benefits and How
VA supportive-services programs receive any outstanding Afghan SIV appropriations, giving SSVF more resources for veterans at risk of homelessness. DHS and national-security screeners gain a statutory mandate to revisit SIV vetting and prioritize security-indicator cases. Supporters of tighter immigration screening benefit from closure of pending and future Afghan SIV admissions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Afghan SIV applicants are barred from new filings and pending applicants lose processing entirely. Current Afghan SIV beneficiaries must submit to biometric re-enrollment, document and service reverification, database checks, and interviews in flagged cases. Beneficiaries who fail the review can have status rescinded and must face removal proceedings. DHS, State, DNI, and VA are required to complete reassessments, enforce removability decisions, close the program, and redirect appropriations.
Key Provisions
- Repeals the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program and blocks new or pending applications.
- Requires an 18-month security reassessment of current Afghan SIV beneficiaries using biometrics, updated database checks, document verification, service reverification, and interviews where warranted.
- Requires DHS to review current beneficiaries for continued eligibility, removability, fraud, misrepresentation, and national-security concerns, then initiate rescission and removal when applicable.
- Bars reinstatement or reissuance of rescinded Afghan SIV status.
- Reallocates outstanding Afghan SIV appropriations to VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Repeals the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program, closes new and pending applications, requires security reassessment and removability review for current Afghan SIV beneficiaries, bars reinstatement after rescission, and redirects remaining SIV funds to VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, National Security, Veterans
Primary Purpose
Repeals the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program, closes new and pending applications, requires security reassessment and removability review for current Afghan SIV beneficiaries, bars reinstatement after rescission, and redirects remaining SIV funds to VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Supportive Services for Veteran Families
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- DHS security screeners
Identified Costs
- Afghan SIV applicants
- Current Afghan SIV beneficiaries
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Director of National Intelligence
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Hunt introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Afghan SIV applicants, Afghan SIV beneficiaries with rescinded status
Afghan SIV program operations, Homeland Security status-adjudication offices
Supportive Services for Veteran Families, Veteran households at risk of homelessness
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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