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Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act

To eliminate employment-based visa caps for abused, abandoned, and neglected children who are classified as special immigrant juveniles, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 5, 2025

Latest action (Jun 5, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
Immigration

Summary
  • Removes employment-based visa caps for special immigrant juveniles who are abused, abandoned, or neglected.
  • Exempts special immigrant juveniles from direct numerical limitations on immigration visas.
  • Adds special immigrant juveniles to the employment-based immigrant preference allocation system.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
12 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 5, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. · senate
  2. Jun 5, 2025 Introduced in Senate

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.

  • HR 3763 — Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act · Introduced Jun 5, 2025 · Cong. 119 86%
  • HR 4817 — Immigrant Witness and Victim Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 2001 — No Visas for Violent Criminals Act · Introduced Jun 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • S 158 — Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act · Introduced Jan 21, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 286 — Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Act of 2025 · Introduced Jan 28, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 1298 — Religious Workforce Protection Act · Introduced Apr 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 66%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jun 5, 2025

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Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

June 5, 2025

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Welch, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Murray, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Merkley) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To eliminate employment-based visa caps for abused, abandoned, and neglected children who are classified as special immigrant juveniles, and for other purposes.

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 “Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act”.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT-BASED VISA CAPS FOR SPECIAL IMMIGRANT JUVENILES.

(a) Aliens Not Subject to Direct Numerical Limitations.—Section 201(b)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking “subparagraph (A) or (B)” and inserting “subparagraph (A), (B), or (J)”.

(b) Preference Allocation for Employment-Based Immigrants.—Section 203(b)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)(4)) is amended by striking “subparagraph (A) or (B) thereof” and inserting “subparagraph (A), (B), or (J) of such section”. <all>

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