Skip to main content
CivicGate

S 2468
Introduced Re-checks Congress.gov for new actions and updates the bill's status, and fills in any sponsors, committees, or related bills that are missing. It does not re-pull sponsors/cosponsors/committees/related — those rarely change — and it skips all work if nothing has changed upstream, so it's cheap to click.

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 28, 2025

Latest action (Jul 28, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4776)

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Immigration
Issues
Immigration

Summary
  • Amends Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to broaden eligibility by replacing specific entry date requirements with a 7-year residency requirement.
  • Allows persons who entered the United States at least 7 years before their application date to access registry benefits for immigration status adjustment.
  • Takes effect 60 days after the bill's enactment.

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)
14 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 28, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4776) · senate
  2. Jul 28, 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 4696 — Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 98%
  • S 1817 — Expedited Removal Expansion Act of 2025 · Introduced May 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 80%
  • S 1201 — Strengthening Immigration Procedures Act of 2025 · Introduced Mar 31, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • 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 77%
  • S 2274 — Constitutional Citizenship Clarification Act of 2025 · Introduced Jul 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 75%
  • S 2401 — 287(g) Program Protection Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jul 28, 2025

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

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 28, 2025

Mr. Padilla (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Schatz, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Sanders, Ms. Warren, Mr. Markey, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Booker, Mr. Lujan, and Mr. Schiff) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 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 july 1, 1924 or 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>

Comments

Comments

Loading comments…