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Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929

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.

Introduced Jul 23, 2025

Latest action (Jul 23, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
Immigration

Summary

This bill updates the "registry" provision of immigration law to expand eligibility for long-term undocumented residents to adjust their immigration status to legal permanent residency. Current law allows those who entered the United States before January 1, 1972 to apply for adjustment, a cutoff date that has not been updated in decades. The bill replaces that fixed date with a requirement that applicants must have entered the U.S. at least 7 years before their application date, allowing more recent long-term residents to potentially qualify for status adjustment. The change takes effect 60 days after enactment.

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Sponsor (1)
54 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Zoe Lofgren’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • NULL $71,879
  • GOOGLE $44,350
  • FRAGOMEN $34,400
  • CISCO $21,800
  • BERRY APPLEMAN & LEIDEN LLP $19,800

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Zoe Lofgren → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 23, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jul 23, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 2468 — Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 · Introduced Jul 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 98%
  • HR 449 — To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain naturalization requirements for United States nationals, and for other purposes. · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • S 1817 — Expedited Removal Expansion Act of 2025 · Introduced May 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • S 1201 — Strengthening Immigration Procedures Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • S 1937 — Visa Overstay Penalties Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 3227 — Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2025 · Introduced May 7, 2025 · Cong. 119 73%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jul 23, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 23, 2025

Ms. Lofgren (for herself, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Meng, Mr. Correa, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Balint, Ms. Ross, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Omar, Mr. Khanna, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Costa, Ms. Chu, Mr. Suozzi, and Mr. Huffman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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.

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 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. <all>

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