The bill would let certain Ukrainian citizens or nationals, and people who last lived in Ukraine, apply for lawful permanent resident status. Applicants must be in the United States, meet specified admission or parole requirements, complete background checks and refugee-level vetting, and pass an individualized review of public safety and national security concerns. The bill allows some grounds for inadmissibility to be waived, protects certain battered spouses, and provides protections while a qualifying application is pending. The bill was introduced in the Senate and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; it has not been enacted.
Eligible applicants could seek permanent resident status under this process. While a qualifying application is pending, applicants and included dependents who follow the application rules generally could not be removed, treated as unlawfully present under a specified immigration rule, or treated as unauthorized workers, subject to the bill’s conditions. Applicants may request waivers of filing fees. Approval would record permanent residence as of the date the person was first inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States.
The bill limits fees to amounts tied to processing applications or issuing documents and allows applicants to request fee waivers. No publicly available information describes the total expenses of carrying out the bill.
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