3.0.0 2936 2022-10-28T01:46:10Z 2022-10-28T01:46:10Z Senate S 2019-11-21 116 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-11-21T19:08:27Z GRACE Act 116 2146 HR 2019-05-15 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Related bill CRS Syrian Partner Protection Act 116 4873 HR 2019-12-18 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Related bill CRS GRACE Act 116 1088 S 2019-04-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS Refugee Protection Act of 2019 116 5210 HR 2019-12-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Identical bill CRS Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act of 2019 116 3048 S 2019-12-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S7030) Related bill CRS 2019-11-21 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2019-11-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000174 Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] Patrick Leahy D VT N H001075 Sen. Harris, Kamala D. [D-CA] Kamala Harris D CA D. 2019-11-21 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2019-11-21 True H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. 2019-11-21 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2019-11-21 True S001181 Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] Jeanne Shaheen D NH 2019-11-21 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2019-11-21 True B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2019-11-21 True C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2019-11-21 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2019-11-21 True M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2019-11-21 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2019-11-21 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2019-11-21 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2019-11-21 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2019-11-21 True K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2019-11-21 True C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2020-01-16 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2020-09-16 False Immigration Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Afghanistan Asia Border security and unlawful immigration Central America Child safety and welfare Citizenship and naturalization Conflicts and wars Congressional oversight Costa Rica Crime victims Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation Criminal justice information and records Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Department of State Detention of persons Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad Disability and paralysis Domestic violence and child abuse Economic development Economic performance and conditions El Salvador Evidence and witnesses Family relationships Foreign aid and international relief Foreign labor Foreign language and bilingual programs Fraud offenses and financial crimes Government buildings, facilities, and property Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Government trust funds Guatemala Health information and medical records Homelessness and emergency shelter Honduras Housing finance and home ownership Human rights Human trafficking Immigrant health and welfare Immigration status and procedures International law and treaties International organizations and cooperation Iraq Judicial procedure and administration Juvenile crime and gang violence Latin America Lawyers and legal services Mexico Middle East Military operations and strategy Organized crime Political movements and philosophies Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents Protest and dissent Racial and ethnic relations Refugees, asylum, displaced persons Religion Right of privacy Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination Social security and elderly assistance Syria Terrorism Visas and passports Worker safety and health Immigration 00 2019-11-21 Introduced in Senate 2021-08-18T15:54:58Z Refugee Protection Act of 2019

This bill provides protections for aliens such as asylum seekers and contains other provisions.

The bill's provisions include

  • eliminating the general requirement that an asylum seeker apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the United States;
  • prohibiting requiring an asylum seeker to provide corroborating evidence of persecution if such evidence is not reasonably obtainable;
  • waiving certain grounds of inadmissibility or deportability for qualifying refugees seeking permanent resident status;
  • requiring the Department of Justice to appoint counsel to a child or particularly vulnerable individual in certain immigration proceedings;
  • increasing the annual cap on principal nonimmigrant U visas (victims of crimes) from 10,000 to 20,000;
  • prohibiting the removal of an alien with certain pending immigration applications, such as a U visa application;
  • imposing limits on when an alien may be removed from the United States in a proceeding without the alien present;
  • establishing a presumption that the least restrictive conditions necessary should be imposed in custody proceedings for asylum seekers, including release if appropriate;
  • establishing that the maximum number of refugees admitted each fiscal year shall be no less than 95,000;
  • directing the Department of State to help other governments increase their capacity to care for and accept refugees;
  • directing the State Department to establish refugee processing centers in other countries in North and Central America; and
  • authorizing the Department of Homeland Security to provide special immigrant status to qualified aliens who assisted U.S. efforts in Syria and admit up to 5,000 such aliens each fiscal year for five years.
]]> Refugee Protection Act of 2019 Display Title Refugee Protection Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Refugee Protection Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide for the admission and protection of refugees, asylum seekers, and other vulnerable individuals, to provide for the processing of refugees and asylum seekers in the Western Hemisphere, and to modify certain special immigrant visa programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2936is/xml/BILLS-116s2936is.xml 2019-11-21 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. 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.