Dream Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill provides a path to conditional permanent resident status and later full lawful permanent resident status for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children, and sets documentation, rulemaking, and confidentiality protections for that process.
Who Benefits and How
DACA recipients and other eligible childhood-arrival immigrants could gain protection from removal, work-authorized conditional permanent resident status, and a pathway to full lawful permanent residence through education, work, military service, or hardship-based criteria.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Homeland Security officials would need to adjudicate applications, conduct background checks, provide hearings and documentation procedures, issue regulations quickly, and restrict immigration-enforcement use of applicant information.
Key Provisions
- Creates eligibility rules for conditional permanent resident status for certain long-term residents who entered as children and directs DHS to cancel removal and adjust status for eligible applicants.
- Sets the duration, termination procedures, documentation rules, and requirements for removing the conditional basis and granting full lawful permanent resident status.
- Requires DHS rulemaking on an accelerated timeline and restricts disclosure or immigration-enforcement use of information submitted under the Act or in DACA requests.
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill provides a path to conditional permanent resident status and later full lawful permanent resident status for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children, and sets documentation, rulemaking, and confidentiality protections for that process.
Key Policy Areas
Immigration, Education, Government Administration
Primary Purpose
This bill provides a path to conditional permanent resident status and later full lawful permanent resident status for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children, and sets documentation, rulemaking, and confidentiality protections for that process.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- DACA recipients and other eligible childhood-arrival immigrants seeking protection from removal and a path to permanent residence
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Homeland Security officials responsible for implementing the adjustment process and immigration-enforcement limits
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Durbin (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Applicants and DACA recipients whose personal information receives stronger protection from immigration-enforcement use, Applicants who gain a broader menu of evidence for proving identity, presence, and age-at-entry requirements, Conditional residents seeking to convert their status into full lawful permanent residence
Homeland Security and immigration-enforcement officials limited in how they may use application information, Homeland Security officials adjudicating applications, waivers, and background checks under the new process, Homeland Security officials assessing education, service, work, hardship, and civics requirements
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Homeland Security
We use a combination of our own taxonomy and classification in addition to large language models to assess meaning and potential beneficiaries. High confidence means strong textual evidence. Always verify with the original bill text.
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