For the relief of Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang.
Summary
What This Bill Does
This private relief bill gives Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang a direct path to an immigrant visa or adjustment to lawful permanent resident status despite the normal worldwide and per-country limits in the Immigration and Nationality Act. If he entered before the application deadline, the bill treats him as having entered and remained lawfully for adjustment purposes, bars removal or inadmissibility based on grounds already reflected in DHS or State Department records, requires DHS to rescind related removal or deportation orders, and requires filing within two years with appropriate fees.
Who Benefits and How
Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang is the direct beneficiary because the bill waives quota and admissibility barriers and protects him from removal while he applies. Immigration counsel and family members supporting the application gain a clear statutory route instead of relying on discretionary relief.
Who Bears the Burden and How
DHS must rescind covered removal or deportation findings, the State Department Visa Office must administer the visa-number offset, and one family-preference immigrant visa number for Dr. Yang's country of birth is reduced in the current or next fiscal year after relief is granted.
Key Provisions
- Provides Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang eligibility for an immigrant visa or adjustment to lawful permanent resident status despite INA numerical limits.
- Bars removal, denial of admission, or permanent-residence ineligibility based on covered DHS or State Department records existing on enactment.
- Requires DHS to rescind outstanding removal, deportation, inadmissibility, or deportability findings covered by the bill.
- Requires the State Department to reduce one family-preference immigrant visa number for Dr. Yang's country of birth after relief is granted.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang individually eligible for lawful permanent residence, blocks removal based on existing DHS or State Department records, and offsets the relief by reducing one immigrant visa number.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Civil Rights
Primary Purpose
Makes Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang individually eligible for lawful permanent residence, blocks removal based on existing DHS or State Department records, and offsets the relief by reducing one immigrant visa number.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang
- Immigration counsel
- Dr. Yang family members
Identified Costs
- DHS
- State Department Visa Office
- Family preference visa applicants
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in House
Mr. Harris of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang, Family preference visa applicants
Positive-direction: Dr. Yue-Cheng Yang
Negative-direction: Family preference visa applicants
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
- "Secretary of State"
- → Secretary of State
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