3.0.0 3700 2023-01-13T04:50:15Z 2023-01-13T04:50:15Z House H HR 2005-09-08 109 hsju00 Judiciary Committee House Standing hsju01 Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Referred to 2005-10-17T15:09:49Z Referred to 2005-09-08T14:01:00Z 2005-10-17 hsju01 Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. Committee 2005-09-08 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsju00 Judiciary Committee 2005-09-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2005-09-08 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress T000458 Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6] THOMAS TANCREDO R CO G. 6 N G000280 Rep. Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [R-VA-5] VIRGIL GOODE R VA H. 5 2005-10-17 False Immigration Administrative remedies Admission of nonimmigrants Agricultural labor Alien labor Aliens Allegiance Amnesties Cambodia Caribbean area Central Asia Citizenship Congress Congressional oversight Cuba Cubans Department of Homeland Security East Asia Ethics Europe Families Finance and Financial Sector Former Soviet states Fraud Government Operations and Politics Haiti Haitians Hungary Illegal aliens Immigrants Investors Labor and Employment Laos Latin America Law Married people Nicaragua Oaths Parents Poland Private Legislation Refugees Right of asylum Russia Skilled labor Support of dependents Vietnam Visas Voting Immigration 00 2005-09-08 Introduced in House 2005-12-13T20:06:55Z Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act of 2005 - Reduces U.S. immigration levels (and visa allotments) for: (1) family-sponsored immigrants to zero; (2) diversity immigrants to zero; and (3) employment-based immigrants.

Caps fiscal year humanitarian-related entries at 50,000, which shall include: (1) refugees; (2) assylees; (3) Polish, Hungarian, Soviet, and Indochinese parolees; (4) aliens whose removal is canceled and status adjusted; and (5) aliens provided permanent resident status through private legislation.

Eliminates specified legalization and amnesty programs, including: (1) agricultural worker amnesty; (2) Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) legalizations; (3) amnesties under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act of 1997, and the Haitian Refugee and Immigration Fairness Act of 1998; and (4) Cuban-Haitian adjustments.

Requires congressional approval for extension of designation of foreign states for temporary protected status designations.

Establishes as nonimmigrant classifications: (1) spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents (currently, a preference immigrant classification); and (2) parents of U.S. adult citizens (currently, an immediate relative classification exempt from numerical immigrant limitations).

Prohibits automatic citizenship by birth unless at least one of the individual's parents is, at the time of birth, a U.S. citizen or national or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence.

Makes voting in a foreign election a basis for automatic loss of U.S. citizenship.

Sets forth the instances under which illegal U.S. presence by a person shall be considered as not demonstrating good moral character for immigration purposes.

]]> Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act of 2005 Display Title Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced To reform immigration to serve the national interest. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Reducing Immigration to a Genuinely Healthy Total (RIGHT) Act of 2005 Introduced in House 2005-09-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109hr3700ih/xml/BILLS-109hr3700ih.xml 2005-10-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.