<enum>I</enum><header>Rulemakings</header> <section id="H6E4523661C834C8F9B248AE9B3510077"><enum>101.</enum><header>Rulemaking and findings with regard to rulemaking</header> <subsection id="H01175723B1494985B84C967417421E5C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of State shall make rules to implement this Act and the amendments carried out by this Act. To the extent necessary to ensure that such rules are made in a timely manner, the rules shall take effect on an interim basis, at the same time that notice and opportunity for public comment are offered. Access to the relief provided by this Act and previous Acts listed in subsection (b) is in the public interest, as necessary to protect health and safety and promulgation of regulations that take effect on an interim basis falls within the good cause exception in the Administrative Procedure Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HE49ED2357BA147AB93B34315014AA064"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of State shall promulgate interim regulations to implement the provisions not amended or repealed from the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386), the Violence Against Women Act and Department Justice Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–162) and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–457). Insofar as required to carry out the previous sentence in a timely manner, such regulations shall be promulgated to take effect on an interim basis, at the same time that notice and opportunity for public comment are offered.</text> </subsection></section>

Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2012

<enum>I</enum><header>Rulemakings</header> <section id="H6E4523661C834C8F9B248AE9B3510077"><enum>101.</enum><header>Rulemaking and findings with regard to rulemaking</header> <subsection id="H01175723B1494985B84C967417421E5C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Rulemaking</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of State shall make rules to implement this Act and the amendments carried out by this Act. To the extent necessary to ensure that such rules are made in a timely manner, the rules shall take effect on an interim basis, at the same time that notice and opportunity for public comment are offered. Access to the relief provided by this Act and previous Acts listed in subsection (b) is in the public interest, as necessary to protect health and safety and promulgation of regulations that take effect on an interim basis falls within the good cause exception in the Administrative Procedure Act.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HE49ED2357BA147AB93B34315014AA064"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of State shall promulgate interim regulations to implement the provisions not amended or repealed from the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386), the Violence Against Women Act and Department Justice Reauthorization Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–162) and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–457). Insofar as required to carry out the previous sentence in a timely manner, such regulations shall be promulgated to take effect on an interim basis, at the same time that notice and opportunity for public comment are offered.</text> </subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Protections for victims</header> <section id="HF64E13B37D9D4A78935F9335AA6482E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header>Employment authorization for immigrant victims</header> <subsection id="H01D24C00298E48AA85AFCBA01CC8E32B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congress finds as follows:</text> <paragraph id="HC316842D80AC4FCF90AB8DC692C80366"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Congress created immigration protections for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence, human trafficking, and other crime victims for two important purposes—to facilitate prosecution of perpetrators and to enhance victim safety.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD68F48E2BD1847A68CDF02F4EEB1075E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The safety of immigrant victims applying for protection under the Violence Against Women Act or the Trafficking Victims Protection Act is undermined when government agencies delay in providing legal work authorization. Immigrant victims’ ability to seek help and to cooperate in the detection, investigation or prosecution crimes committed against them is enhanced when victims can work lawfully and sever their economic dependence on the perpetrator.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC0C6F64391334C1F9A8306032950654B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>When victims know that they will receive legal work authorization within 180 days of filing their for victim related immigration relief, victims and their advocates can develop safety plans that will focus on steps the victim can take to keep herself and her children safe during the work authorization waiting period. This can include stays in an emergency shelter and transitional housing, obtaining legal custody of her children and learning skills that will enhance her employability.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7D84108D9CA24C3F9058DDF3EB42D2CD"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The economic stability that comes from the ability to work lawfully in the United States reduces victims’ vulnerability to abuse, exploitation and coercion from crime perpetrators.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HED7CF63C86AA48F1AF4ED2D76D0303A4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Congress in VAWA 2000 and VAWA 2005 took steps to encourage DHS to grant immigrant crime victims swift access to legal work authorization. However, as of 2011 73.9% of VAWA self-petitioners and 93.9% of U-visa applicants endure delays of longer than 6 months before receiving legal work authorization. Of these many wait well over a year after filing before receiving work authorization—36.7% of VAWA self-petitioners and 32% of U-visa applicants. These delays harm criminal prosecutions and endanger victims and their children.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HEA8621FE21C742F9A07F91910224838D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Employment authorization for immigrant victims</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD682C4336613488ABE51977D66BA268B" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HB30EA5992A144139B90F8C4949D6C023"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any provision of this Act restricting eligibility for employment in the United States, the Secretary of Homeland Security may grant employment authorization to an alien who has filed a petition for status as a VAWA self-petitioner or a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(U) on the date that is the earlier of—</text> <clause id="H733BDEC26AC04E288AE9C10BCABAD5EB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date the alien’s petition for such status is approved; or</text> </clause><clause id="HC3BF6B1521944E618B7D9E88BC16A5BF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>180 days after the date the alien filed a petition for such status.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="H2A95E55C0DA443D793F74E6F34733D34"><enum>202.</enum><header>Protections for trafficking victims</header> <subsection id="H92DE50376D564062AF6A62D9D4DF8918"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Death of a family member</header> <paragraph id="H7E2A8B545F424E3E958119D9BFAB7E95"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Citizen parents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1)(A)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)(iv)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HAD7C933897644533841EF2026B09BD8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or who</quote> the first place it appears and inserting <quote>, who</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3554B81C70FD4484ADD2618C18E0A880"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>who was a child of a United States citizen parent (i)(I) who died within the past 2 years; or (II) who died when the child was under 18 years of age and the child filed a petition under this subsection not later than 2 years after the child reached the age of 18 years, or (ii) whose marriage to the child’s alien parent was terminated, including by divorce, annulment, or by death of the alien parent or the United States citizen parent</quote> before <quote>, and who is a person of good moral character,</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1C24013871BB43579285C71F570CC4A5"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(and any child of the alien)</quote> and inserting <quote>(and any spouse or child of the alien)</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H03A4DCDB5D894D97B47B348C7D227BA9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Lawful permanent residents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HCECFB018EE524B21873AA6D14FAE31E1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in clause (iii)—</text> <clause id="H0A7ACE6B5903451D8E4E5D8F8E4EA0C8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or who</quote> and inserting <quote>who</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="HA25C52CCD1A64BC09EF4FF11DF0827E6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or who was a child of a lawful permanent resident parent (I)(aa) who within the past 2 years; or (II) who died when one child was under 18 years of age and the child filed a petiiton unde this subsection no later than 2 years after the child reached the age of 18</quote> before <quote>, and who is a person of good moral character,</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="H7EFD48F85E6948939E32693A69866180"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(and any child of the alien)</quote> and inserting <quote>(and any spouse or child of the alien)</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H112AD602C753443B9E2813AF53563A4F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii)(II)(aa)(CC)—</text> <clause id="H444355D0E37B4957B935BF1247778513"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in subsubitem (aaa), by striking <quote>or</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="H384935EABE2D4C9CACEAC6CA1C743DB8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in subsubitem (bbb), by striking the semicolon at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="H17243D2C1E204A9EA44026AF672B6598"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H348CC880E8F44E89A5152636A7D21DAA" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id6F00288C60AE497C800292CC5E458945" indent="down6"><enum>(ccc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">whose spouse died within the past 2 years.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H26889D5BFED04DF49F342B1BC31078C6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Self petitioning by minors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1)(D)(v) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(D)(v)) is amended by inserting after <quote>who is not less than 21 years of age,</quote> the following: <quote>(and the individual’s spouse and children)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8D20ED445D01420BAACC790701B9E2BB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Surviving relatives</header><text>Section 204(l) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1165(l)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H45B59AC730944D478837D3BBAB39C4CA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>who resided in the United States at the time of the death of the qualifying relative and who continues to reside in the United States</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H822937CB2527487E8022B7EEB022EFAC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(E), to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H4A90B6A4028647A29FFECDDD6DFDE0C3" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HD287EB9ECBED46A99C00F5F448F16FFA"><enum>(E)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HDD80E17A0AA54AFA8B1427B76943D9DF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an alien described in section 101(a)(15)(T)(ii) whose qualifying relative has been admitted in nonimmigrant status described in section 101(a)(15)(T)(i);</text> </clause><clause id="HC1AF63D1893C45F5A585746F551111DA" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an alien described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii) whose qualifying relative has been admitted in nonimmigrant status described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(i); or</text> </clause><clause id="HFE1083C73A1B4397A69A9E741FF8EEDA" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>an alien who is a VAWA self-petitioner.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0E48AF308CD2429090ED69FF5517A647"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <subparagraph id="H97ECD5B4CC114D27805B0332C5974DA2"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to petitions filed on or after that date.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0EF08A1D757D414686B801BAE0D138AB"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Transition in case of citizen parents who died before enactment</header><text>In applying the amendments made by paragraphs (1) and (2)(A) in the case of an alien whose citizen or lawful permanent resident parent died during the period beginning on the date that is 2 years prior to the date of enactment of Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act—</text> <clause id="H780E79D42CFF434CB98B768BDB2EEB6E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>section 204(a)(1)(A)(iv) and section 204(a)(1)(B)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall each be applied as though the phrase <quote>within the past two years</quote> were <quote>the period described in section 202(d)(5)(B) of the Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2012</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="HDBACCE1E8FD1423E9CC9ECFC19FC1264"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a petition under either such section shall be filed not later than the later of—</text> <subclause id="H25B8CD52828F46F7926C49186C7AF657"><enum>(I)</enum><text>2 years after the date of enactment of this Act; or</text> </subclause><subclause id="HB0C5DAC294584E38971534AC5A769BFE"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the 2 years after the date the alien attains 18 years of age; and</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H763A3C68FBA74284A17C352469537E10"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the determination of eligibility of an alien child for benefits under either such section (including under section 204(a)(1)(D) of such Act, by reason of a petition authorized under such section) shall be determined as of the date of the death of the citizen or lawful permanent resident parent.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6E8F40D89A7B4B939D54C37D41E2872C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Unaccompanied Alien child redefined</header><text>Section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC30D03E671264E9688A02EB62D5B72B3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(C)—</text> <subparagraph id="HB5FD43D2E5CD4912B728A8B8D2E2B75F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB50E771978FB4411AD3AF97DB5BE0E11"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H939F9A15621943398745F24361DE8E1D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H33385252B8B744E890EE74470D011F44" style="OLC"> <clause id="HEB469A7150CF46D4ABAE13949318DEE1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">was apprehended without a parent or legal guardian and is not reunified with a parent or legal guardian within 72 hours thereafter.</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD8476DC1E657476AB38500187D6FB69E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HADE31C3F645F42EBA3914E9580190785" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HCAC81D607EE94CEEBE7B3C4BD95F7D23"><enum>(h)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Reunification with a parent or legal guardian or next friend does not affect the child’s unaccompanied status for the duration of the child’s immigration proceedings.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA8CD9CB3618741BC93CCF3B21AB1D4E8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Providing safe and secure placements for children</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 235(c)(2) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall permit the continuation of care plans developed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s division of Unaccompanied Children’s Services to ensure their continued protected status after they turn 18, in an arrangement that is the least restrictive possible. The provisions of this paragraph apply to an unaccompanied alien child until such child attains 21 years of age, including those provisions providing for continued authorization of placement of that child.</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H22EC00F7E77545A3AEAB9066CA6D3632"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Providing safe and secure placements for children</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 235(c)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H80929E16F2F04E7B8F3DA1B240C9893D" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HDEBB362CB57F4F7D90BB7037639AD73C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Policies and programs</header> <subparagraph id="H9E35B1C5E00A4651958D38A503FC3EAF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney General, and Secretary of State shall establish policies and programs to ensure that unaccompanied alien children in the United States are protected from traffickers and other persons seeking to victimize or otherwise engage such children in criminal, harmful, or exploitative activity, including policies and programs reflecting best practices in witness security programs.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE0603F14F2B3496FBC1B91AE9985D181"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Confidentiality of information</header><text>In order to protect unaccompanied alien children in the United States, information acquired by any person, including officers or employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, case managers, or others in connection with providing services or treatment to children in the custody of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, including any contracted social service entity, shall have be afforded confidentiality protections under VAWA confidentiality (8 U.S.C. 1367) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H83F21501F3384F1FAD3FADC9D4821124"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Eligibility for special immigrant juvenile status</header> <paragraph id="HEE7FEF6F9DB746DD9B3B5C9EAD6AC7D3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Age and court jurisdiction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 235(d)(6) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BABDC4E09EB40638C6D0B5A00A49B3F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H6D36E971EB3D407E91C291E77430F7EF"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Transition rule</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien described in section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)) may not be denied special immigrant status under such section or have such status revoked after the date of the enactment of this Act based on age or whether the alien continues to be under State or juvenile court jurisdiction if the alien was a child and under State or juvenile court jurisdiction on the date on which the alien applied for such status.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE113E9F8B468437682FE00C6081AE252"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Single parents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(27)(J)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J)(i)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H3339FE8FDC2645F8A0764B22D89433FF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>1 or both</quote> and inserting <quote>at least one</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9D040D0AC16043A0998E00D2E7E20578"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>State law</quote> the following: <quote>regardless of whether the immigrant lives with the non-offending parent;</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAD2945172E3C489988CE33D47AC7D47A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after <quote>custody of</quote> the following: <quote>a non-offending parent of the immigrant</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H37276C8DF30443209C88F6BD02E4C5BB"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Counting of trafficking victims and benefits for U-Visa holders and families</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 107(b)(1)(B) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(b)(1)) is amended by adding <quote>and victims of human trafficking who qualify for other forms of immigration relief</quote> after <quote>101(a)(15)(T)(ii)</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB005473ACB85400CA716F433C73470DE"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Passport retention</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 1592 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H89ACC89A51DD4697A5CF0588F7FF172F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(2) by deleting <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5795326BE18146EEAC885930A582FEE0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a)(3) by adding <quote>or</quote> at the end; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7CCBAA8DB2364E63A09A868A6B98ABD5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (3) of subsection (a) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4790038C9BC54CEE9BA528F8CFA3F80F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H298C6C617489470A90EE50CCAA2ED8D4"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for more than 32 hours shall be subject to a rebuttable presumption that they are withholding the passport of another person against that persons will in violation of this section, but it is not a violation of this section to obtain a person’s passport for up 32 hours for the purpose of complying with Federal or State government requirements;</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H92B7100729B04C00A6D8B339452C31EE"><enum>203.</enum><header>Protections for victims of criminal activity</header> <subsection id="H0EAEC963593F4DF88D6D10A5E3EF8D0F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(iii)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H2BA6399567114A8ABD63D94759C53786"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>stalking; dating violence; abuse; endangerment; or exploitation of a person who is a child, elderly, or disabled;</quote> after <quote>perjury;</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBDC50512169C4F87A4776B7573A97C66"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAEEAC5D56B5A43008F5590CC28FCE67F" style="OLC"> <clause id="H49BDC5AE13BF4B70B6EB38B389543863"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the terms <term>domestic violence</term>, <term>sexual assault</term>, <term>dating violence</term>, and <term>stalking</term> have the meaning given such terms in the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13925(a));</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CEBA877EC534F59A2A62DF37376832D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Protection for Incapacitated Sons and Daughters of Victims</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HB9996A3E62574CC2B0D10DA34B67F522"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(15)(T)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(t)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H1491A41144854ADA83B38DAACA0657B4" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subclause (I) by inserting <quote>, incapacitated siblings,</quote> after <quote>under such clause</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2690A5AD660E45EA88D67B8B120A0FBC" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (III) by inserting <quote>, incapacitated sibling,</quote> after <quote>parent</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H38E11B4AE4504374B757D8419FF5F84C" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(ii)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HFFCA424A5AF349EBAEFA144B7E54DAB0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subclause (I)—</text> <clause id="H4EDD6E9A0DFC4E71AA80D55237D65DBD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or incapacitated</quote> after <quote>under 21 years of age</quote>;</text> </clause><clause id="H5425B9850FC34F82BFAA2CE356C0DAEB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting <quote>son or daughter,</quote> after <quote>children,</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="H898A35AA65C74E10B2AA957ABD16AF32"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>any children of the siblings, </quote> after <quote>under such clause</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H037610168B25421FACAC99933E4CC842"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subclause (II)—</text> <clause commented="no" id="HB4ABAD49C21F421BA243FF01A2A028CA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>under 21 years of age on the date on which such alien applied for status under such clause</quote> after <quote>children</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="HEDF9809E857D450B9EF95A62B2279738"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, and any children of the children</quote> after <quote>such alien</quote>.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H20FDF4847B6E4FB4B0E1EB4DE6296DE6" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H8DF27FB1A6794AF39815C857CE820BDE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting <quote>or incapacitated sons or daughters</quote> after <quote>alien’s children</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H98EE4761608745F2B98E7163ECE1808B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iii), in the matter preceding item (aa), by inserting <quote>or incapacitated son or daughter</quote> after <quote>child</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7E60676200814EF0B993F4E08757B722"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iii)(I)(bb), by striking <quote>or a child</quote> inserting <quote>, an incapacitated son or daughter of the alien, or a child</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H96D37316A484452285D37D4FA7E61FD0"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subparagraph (A)(iv), by inserting <quote>, or incapacitated son or daughter,</quote> after <quote>child</quote> the first and second places it appears;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2259D279DDFC40878310696171686943"><enum>(E)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(vi), by striking <quote>or child</quote> and inserting <quote>, incapacitated son or daughter, or child</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5E50758A928B44D78D50F751D0C974BD"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii)(I)(bb), by inserting <quote>, an incapacitated son or daughter of the alien, or</quote> before <quote>a child of the alien</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF3ABAFFA66FE48B085F8174A73C4717D"><enum>(G)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(iii), by inserting <quote>incapacitated son or daughter</quote> after <quote>child</quote> the first, second, and third places it appears.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H940B0AE2CCA64CF7B531BB97E298E231"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Protecting Parents of U.S. Citizen Child Crime Victims</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)) shall be amended—</text> <paragraph id="H8AAA7E1122034AA4868CA68ED0E4D21B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in clause (i)—</text> <subparagraph id="HF36E3EF416934230A161584B187A1B48"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subclause (I), by inserting after <quote>the alien</quote> the following: <quote>or a child of the alien</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF8E7080BDA11483592178B37B21F2C87"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subclause (II), by striking <quote>an alien</quote> before the word <quote>child</quote> and inserting <quote>a</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD393B34B4CF341D28B1DCFC0D63923DD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subclause (III), by striking <quote>an alien</quote> before the word <quote>child</quote> and inserting <quote>a</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H41FB4F531D4644CB8FD21616AFCAB226"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause (ii), by inserting after subclause (II) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H1FB9DB065160449B894DD4123C849056" style="OLC"> <subclause id="H3AEC3D09A6D34B54B0F7935E74CE0BAC"><enum>(III)</enum><text>in the case of an alien described in clause (i) who is 21 years of age or older and incapacitated, the parents and siblings of such alien.</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB74DF0BFF92143C98E66F8B3B47ABF0D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Requirements applicable to U Visas</header> <paragraph id="H4CCC56B946FD418284B7EBD43A572AA2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Recapture of unused U visas</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 214(p)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(p)(2)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H2AE775A56C704E7DB6E5469B8640574B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>The number</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the number</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB0E296D8E7F4DCAAB17BFA87E47D6E5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD7A45C9FCBCD448284BE23AE772B23F9" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H9AAD0853B301484FB1CBA8088DD91407"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning in fiscal year 2012, if the numerical limitation set forth in subparagraph (A) is reached before the end of the fiscal year, up to 5,000 additional visas, of the aggregate number of visas that were available and not issued to nonimmigrants described in section 101(a)(15)(U) in fiscal years 2006 through 2011, may be issued until the end of the fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEEFD614CE3BF4C9BA429F13EAD4D9422"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Sunset date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) are repealed on the date on which the aggregate number of visas that were available and not issued in fiscal years 2006 through 2011 have been issued pursuant to section 214(p)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H68412EB488E048E29C93A08B6C140C18"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Age determinations</header><text>Section 214(p) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(p)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97FCE073750D4D4DB020E9111CC42939" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HF601DA5E687E478A91CA296B03AFED1C"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Age determinations</header> <subparagraph id="H8F301FDE00C1488A8972C253E02D968B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Children</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An unmarried alien who seeks to accompany, or follow to join, a parent granted status under section 101(a)(15)(U)(i), and who was under 21 years of age on the date on which such parent petitioned for such status, shall continue to be classified as a child for purposes of section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii), if the alien attains 21 years of age after such parent’s petition was filed but while it was pending.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H324930E7D5C74B899FE3EC8F815DD8F9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Principal aliens</header><text>An alien described in clause (i) of section 101(a)(15)(U) shall continue to be treated as an alien described in clause (ii)(I) of such section if the alien attains 21 years of age after the alien’s application for status under such clause (i) is filed but while it is pending.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H50BB82C09FF941EDA85F49E077397B8B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Petitioning procedures for U visas</header><text>Section 214(p)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(p)) is amended by inserting <quote>Certifications may be signed by the head of the agency or any agency staff member designated by such agency head to sign certifications.</quote> before <quote>The certification may also</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDA62C424E6044697AEE5E82F01565FC5"><enum>(e)</enum><header>VOCA as U-Visa Certifiers</header><text>Section 203(j) through section 214(p) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(j) through 8 U.S.C. 1184(p)) is amended by inserting <quote>administrator of crime victim assistance under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10602),</quote> after <quote>prosecutor, judge,</quote> each place it appears.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HBD06BB51CDCB46F192AB7A524630D2C2"><enum>204.</enum><header>Battered spouse and family member protections and nonimmigrants</header> <subsection id="H76BE21C4B8D941EB84BDF11E1C1AE157"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Exception from foreign residence requirement for educational visitors</header> <paragraph id="H4B536AB4F7A541F8819880F3362E8707"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(e)) is amended, in the matter before the first proviso, by inserting <quote>unless the alien is a VAWA self-petitioner or an applicant for nonimmigrant status under 101(a)(15)(T) or (U)</quote> after <quote>for an aggregate of at least two years following departure from the United States</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1C927AF1411B4BB1ABA78222286A6DA5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this paragraph shall apply to aliens regardless of whether the foreign residence requirement under section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act arises out of an admission or acquisition of status under section 101(a)(15)(J) of such Act, before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2EF5E49CC45549C18D3648FED960C264"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Self-Petitioning</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)(iii)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HC21F7C33128E45F0909697E8C2C70007"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subclause (I)(bb), by inserting <quote>or to conclude in a valid marriage</quote> after <quote>intended by the alien to be legally a marriage</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC8674E65BAE54080AB05A8C39D52FCC9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subclause (II)(aa)—</text> <subparagraph id="H3A8ACA8AF4524CC8A13C7BA21A3359E0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subitem (BB);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H027526539D9C4DAFA7F8A87C765F124C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or</quote> at the end of subitem (CC); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA8FCFF0ED3CF4712B2A62E2511C0738E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subitem:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE7FFB11E5C5C476BAF46E1482E831A69" style="OLC"> <subitem id="H862BDB9F860A4CBBB1DA7027BAD8D5D3"><enum>(DD)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who entered the United States as an alien described in section 101(a)(15)(K) with the intent to enter into a valid marriage and the alien (or child of the alien) was battered or subject to extreme cruelty by the United States citizen who filed the petition to accord status under such section;</text> </subitem><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEAADBE4ACF4148A2A7BF563BE0914D6F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subclause (II)(cc)—</text> <subparagraph id="H3D70E0E0975548628482CD85706471DF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or who</quote> and inserting <quote>, who</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H97FBA3453F884B3884D80DF1543284E9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, or who is described in subitem (aa)(DD)</quote> before the semicolon; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3C06C8A078924A90B13BB40AEEA3A43A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subclause (II)(dd) by inserting <quote>or who is described in subitem (aa)(DD)</quote> before the period.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA8DBBA7756BD4C49BA7ABFF052DAEB33"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exception from requirement To depart</header><text>Section 214(d)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(d)(1)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>unless the alien (and the child of the alien) entered the United States as an alien described in section 101(a)(15)(K) with the intent to enter into a valid marriage and the alien or child was battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by the United States citizen who filed the petition to accord status under such section</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE66290EE6780469AB872719E750DBBE5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to aliens admitted before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HBFCAC400590E4BA19DC733E327B7C4D8"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Relief for abused fiancés</header> <paragraph id="H441CE5A52AD6421FAA6C56ABCB41FDB5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Conforming application in cancellation of removal</header><text>Section 240A(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229b(b)(2)(A)(i)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H6D6E88D2DE1D412981E3C8674848CE90"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subclause (II);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB0A4E18FDE194350A9F3DBABCC7072D5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding <quote>or</quote> at the end of subclause (III); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4D1CE1830A3F416DB1A1AFCDE2554CB4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subclause:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9587244287F44D20AC571E7A990B21DC" style="OLC"> <subclause id="H719FA10EE74241E087294DDF12CC03C3"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the alien entered the United States as an alien described in section 101(a)(15)(K) with the intent to enter into a valid marriage and the alien (or the child of the alien who is described in such section) was battered or subject to extreme cruelty by the United States citizen who filed the petition to accord status under such section;</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H83B34054ECD2440FA286E53ABFF96C56"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exception to restriction on adjustment of status</header><text>The second sentence of section 245(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255(d)) is amended by inserting before the period the following: <quote>, unless the alien is described in section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii)(II)(aa)(DD)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCE9A444E6E744986A7007F98AA781695"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application under suspension of deportation</header><text>Section 244(a)(3) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1254(a)(3)) (as in effect on March 31, 1997) shall be applied (as if in effect on such date) as if the phrase <quote>is described in section 240A(b)(2)(A)(i)(IV) or</quote> were inserted before <quote>has been battered</quote> the first place it appears.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD0856FCD927648969B18FD8682910395"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to aliens admitted before, on, or after such date.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE4E595354F354F9AA5C56554DF7D8D40"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Visa waiver entrants</header> <paragraph id="H024728258A2B4EC89AF3A7AE3734E51C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 217(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1187(b)(2)) is amended by inserting <quote>as a VAWA self-petitioner or for relief under section 101(a)(15)(T) or (U), under section 240A(b)(2), or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997),</quote> after <quote>asylum,</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC6B33A0E60E34719AFA3EE4185A33CC8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to waivers provided under section 217(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act before, on, or after such date as if it had been included in such waivers.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H022197A5957441B8BA7233B36F944706"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Abused Derivatives Accessing VAWA Self-Petitioning</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(B)(ii)(I) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)(ii)(I)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HFFFB2BDDDEA2435C9FB29B4CADFF65FE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subitem (CC) by inserting <quote>or</quote> at the end; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HEB30A49579E54B8E81EF139E017424B4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding a new subitem (DD) as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H1449773B9A964422833866FFCA041920" style="OLC"> <subitem id="H1F0F6187B5B94FAEB9748ABD09498FB8"><enum>(DD)</enum><text>who is or was the bona fide spouse of an alien who is now a Lawful Permanent Resident.</text> </subitem><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H53AACB2DD2A24C1B963234BEA0E7B992"><enum>205.</enum><header>Battered spouse and family member protections</header> <subsection id="H06940FBA0E87413FA8B24786146182AD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Self-Petitioning for Abandoned Spouses</header> <paragraph id="H3126C5EBA0AB499D8273F77B4E0CD7D5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Abandoned spouses of U.S. citizens</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii)(I)(bb) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)(iii)(I)(bb)) is amended by inserting <quote>abandoned,</quote> before <quote>battered</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA2B2D15E20384EAF884D5F6CC3F79C2A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Abandoned spouses of lawful permanent residents</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(B)(ii)(I)(bb) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)(ii)(I)(bb)) is amended by inserting <quote>abandoned,</quote> before <quote>battered</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC636119F582A48598951FDC25D3BEF46"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Improved access to VAWA self-Petitioning</header> <paragraph id="H72270E7877F14194B8872E9A9F235636"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Abused immigrant spouses of United States citizens</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H57645C6F59C140E2A8E59A5CD2DFAD91"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (iii)(I)(bb) by striking <quote>during the marriage or relationship intended by the alien to be legally a marriage,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1940A1E8C9804F39A5C8254D6E6F7986"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (iii)(II)(aa)(CC)(bbb) by striking <quote>related to an incident of domestic violence</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H21E85F1C907F4338A92A5C4E6B701D28"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (iii)(II)(aa)—</text> <clause id="HF11847FE4FD541FC9C6745660BC98669"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking subitem (CC)(ccc); and</text> </clause><clause id="H744B3221AD2343A88E3502CB9FBAD012"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting after (CC) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB53F8B70385948B6B1346318D231232E" style="OLC"> <subitem id="H629F948B7D38471F851B7BB6EFB454BF"><enum>(DD)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who was a bona fide spouse of a United States citizen whose marriage was legally terminated. Applications under this subsection must be filed within 2 years beginning on the date that the alien spouse receives actual notice of the final court order legally terminating the marriage;</text> </subitem><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H57A607C19C13448A9BEAC9B7021A174E"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in clause (iii)(II)(dd) by inserting <quote>at any time</quote> before <quote>resided with</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB30CCB1FC78C4A94A0C462B3D4A557CE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Abused immigrant spouses of lawful permanent residents</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(B)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HFF1C8B739FE64C0782E01BA96E6B0001"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (ii)(I)(bb) by striking <quote>during the marriage or relationship intended by the alien to be legally a marriage,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3D0DDD3C74B54983A2C2683C4B6E7B2C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in clause (ii)(II)(aa), by striking subitem (CC), and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H48ADE4FF156F4BD6BC448E7DD7C8C716" style="OLC"> <subitem id="H0CF83E2DF41B41F8B8F3EE47F37469C2"><enum>(CC)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who was a bona fide spouse of a lawful permanent resident within the past two years and whose spouse lost status within the past 2 years due to an incident of battering or extreme cruelty; or</text> </subitem><subitem id="HCC25B940AAC94F5B9F3ABDE31CA1B886"><enum>(DD)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">who was a bona fide spouse of a lawful permanent resident whose marriage was legally terminated. Applications under this subsection must be filed within 2 years beginning on the date that the alien spouse receives actual notice of the final court order legally terminating the marriage;</text> </subitem><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF3132C3B0CFE4229BFCE2700BA8B38D8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in clause (ii)(II)(dd) is amended by inserting <quote>at any time</quote> before <quote>resided with</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB6A6200104894F91BF4ED73EF0447169"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Survival of rights to self-Petition</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(h)) is amended by striking <quote>was approved</quote> and inserting <quote>has been filed</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HEA1ADCF3BB10433EB315F257CA60CA7E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Expansion of protections</header><text>Section 212(d)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. (d)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1B7509393CC441F4ABEC850D0386A23A" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H59C9D526BA70441EB99E5D8770DFBC1C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall grant parole under subparagraph (A) to the following:</text> <clause id="H53312C3F16134CC7A65207E141ACB2BA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>A VAWA self-petitioner whose petition was approved based on the petitioner or a child of the petitioner having been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a United States citizen spouse, parent, or son or daughter.</text> </clause><clause id="H7925987DF56247B6A5C1F39AB1FA5FD1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>A VAWA self-petitioner whose petition was approved based on the petitioner or a child of the petitioner having been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a lawful permanent resident spouse or parent.</text> </clause><clause id="HACC46E2C121A4C5A947BBEC6BC5182C3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>An alien whose petition was approved or who qualifies to be classified as a nonimmigrant described in section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii).</text> </clause><clause id="H91818AAD5DC7475D99DF7116DBB77CA6"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The child of an alien described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of this subsection who is outside of the United States.</text> </clause><clause id="HDA897D6EA2B4403F9134C152D19C95BC"><enum>(v)</enum><text>The child of an alien described in clauses (v) of this subsection who is outside of the United States.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5BE7CDEBB9A9442295FBE6E9CB287231"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The grant of parole under clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of subparagraph (C) shall extend from the date of approval of the applicable petition to the time the application for adjustment of status filed by aliens covered under such subparagraphs has been finally adjudicated. Applications for adjustment of status filed by aliens covered under such clauses shall be treated as if they were applications filed under section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii), (A)(iv), (B)(ii), or (B)(iii) for purposes of section 245(a) and (c). The grant of parole under subparagraph clause (iv) or (v) of such subparagraph shall extend from the date of the determination of the Secretary of State described in such subparagraph to the time the application for status under section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii) has been finally adjudicated. Failure by any alien covered by subparagraph (C) to exercise due diligence in filing a visa petition on the alien’s behalf may result in revocation of parole.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H24B696DBCF944ACFA62CE2936251649A"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Self-Petitioning by Children of Bigamy</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="H7C3CD365956A4485BF659C8A0C09E349"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 201(a)(1)(A)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(A)(iv)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB4763781AD404F809DFC6C62625E6D18" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" id="H9C10997D9CBD471A925ABCF681B7429B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alien may file a petition with the Secretary under this subparagraph for classification of the alien (and any spouse or child of the alien) if the alien demonstrates to the Secretary that the alien has been battered by or has been the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by the alien's citizen parent and that the alien—</text> <subclause commented="no" id="H8D0C465795A84D31884CCCDA84DF9FCE"><enum>(I)</enum><item commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H2D2A92C69DCB41A387E81C50D85C60C4"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>is the child or incapacitated son or daughter of a citizen of the United States;</text> </item><item commented="no" id="H867C8B9356174BE9BB3F954876482E63" indent="up1"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>was a child or incapacitated son or daughter of a United States citizen parent who within the past 2 years lost or renounced citizenship status;</text> </item><item commented="no" id="H28933262AD6A49DA99739EEBD60BB8F9" indent="up1"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>who believed that he or she was the child of a citizen of the United States—</text> <subitem commented="no" id="H35A85B8FD5A843B3B35904BE2A632457"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>because a marriage ceremony was actually performed between the U.S. citizen and alien’s other parent; and</text> </subitem><subitem commented="no" id="H7B48CEE0907A483798A970139FBEFE17"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>the alien’s other parent otherwise meets any applicable requirements under this Act to establish the existence of and bona fides of a marriage, but the marriage is not legitimate solely because of the bigamy of such citizen of the United States; or</text> </subitem></item><item commented="no" id="H8EAD4EB986714251AF2F86700555737F" indent="up1"><enum>(dd)</enum><text>was a child of a United States citizen parent—</text> <subitem commented="no" id="H9809EDE981224E91B1F4F63D7AC15A43"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>who within the past 2 years (or, if later, 2 years after the date the child attains 18 years of age) died; or</text> </subitem><subitem commented="no" id="H0798625CD6C242D6B0EA0CDA5F4BE52F"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>whose marriage to the alien’s parent was terminated, including by divorce, annulment, or by death of the natural parent or the abusive stepparent;</text> </subitem></item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H60423C69FEF245639C72F949B1F1B479"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is a person of good moral character;</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" id="HB04DC47F762C40CD9448F13F4AF45A8B"><enum>(III)</enum><text>is eligible to be classified as an immediate relative under section 1151(b)(2)(A)(i) of this title; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" id="HC1E45567E0614119B5434140FE2AE008"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>resides, or has resided in the past, with the citizen parent (for purposes of this clause, residence includes any period of visitation).</text> </subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H21FBE4FFCD744EDE8E20451D102D7009"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(a)(1)(B)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(b)(iii)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF8B23BA2D36A424A90705AB0934637F0" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" id="H17762337DA854BC6B40AA756FD793061"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An alien may file a petition with the Secretary under this subparagraph for classification of the alien (and any spouse or child of then alien) under such section if the alien demonstrates to the Secretary that the alien has been battered by or has been the subject of extreme cruelty perpetrated by the alien's permanent resident parent and that the alien—</text> <subclause commented="no" id="HC66E62841873412280F174C1F10D261D"><enum>(I)</enum><item commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H1D51F97DC012422DB3095D8538CFABDD"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>is the child or incapacitated son or daughter of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence;</text> </item><item commented="no" id="H641A56D685CB4A52A215B9D5A20D9ECF" indent="up1"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>was the child or incapacitated son or daughter of a lawful permanent resident who within the past 2 years lost lawful permanent resident status;</text> </item><item commented="no" id="H96B144632BBC4F44A60EBBE64CC4CAD3" indent="up1"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>believed that he or she was a child of an alien stepparent lawfully admitted for permanent residence—</text> <subitem commented="no" id="HB06B92902CE64A8AB38E378C337BE43A"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>because a marriage ceremony was actually performed between the lawful permanent resident and alien’s other parent; and</text> </subitem><subitem commented="no" id="H2218309983A7448FA02068FF3EE30C4F"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>the alien’s other parent otherwise meets any applicable requirements under this Act to establish the existence of and bona fides of marriage, but the marriage is not legitimate solely because of the bigamy of such alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; or</text> </subitem></item><item commented="no" id="HE6EDBFB849CF453B8BE8DA8F3505A54A" indent="up1"><enum>(dd)</enum><text>was a child of a lawful permanent resident—</text> <subitem commented="no" id="HBDC89D0AED8447659B2C446AADAAB170"><enum>(AA)</enum><text>who within the past 2 years (or, if later, 2 years after the date the child attains 18 years of age) died; or</text> </subitem><subitem commented="no" id="H74DA11EEA3D745EAB8FE14570ABD270A"><enum>(BB)</enum><text>whose marriage to the alien child’s parent was terminated, including by divorce, annulment, or by death of the natural parent or the abusive stepparent;</text> </subitem></item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H547E8FF1BFAF4CE6B4ED5D849A1C5F08"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is a person of good moral character, who is eligible for classification under section 1153(a)(2)(A) of this title; and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H9A5787D679274D4996FCA2A6209798FB"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">resides, or has resided in the past, with the alien's permanent resident alien parent (for purposes of this clause, residence includes any period of visitation).</text> </subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H27BF933405924FF79EBE88A5DE57C270"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Protection for children of VAWA self-Petitioners</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 204(l)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(l)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H1678F2F3E1784402B5CADC3B51538A15"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H06C3D353674249998556DD49221515F2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (F) as subparagraph (G); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2710034A432748BB9FD53162611732E3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (E) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06C6991C7254425B9C3A969E3D5BBC2D" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF2730B6BB945494DB0CE2F355CD02E9F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>a child of an alien who filed a pending or approved petition for classification or application for adjustment of status or other benefit specified in section 101(a)(51) as a VAWA self-petitioner; or</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>. </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H67E407CA26F94108871A8C85A121176E"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Self-Petitioning rights under section 203 of NACARA</header><text>Section 309 of the Illegal Immigration and Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104–208; 8 U.S.C. 1101 note), as amended by section 203(a) of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (8 U.S.C. 1255 note; Public Law 105–100), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H53EA08DB7E3C41A2BAA9817171F3D6B2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(5)(C)(i)(VII)(aa), as amended by section 1510(b) of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000—</text> <subparagraph id="HCCC22A301135409CA07A1D8871A06C7E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end of subitem (BB);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA06A769F04E744D1AFC8BD055AD0CE5D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subitem (CC) and inserting <quote>or</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HED8A98ED88D4426C9D416F6F00C400AE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subitem:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H512858B9CC8340F0BFBA55195610ECDD" style="OLC"> <subitem id="H45E85606AAB645309229173BEE5208B5"><enum>(DD)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">at the time at which the spouse or child files an application for suspension of deportation or cancellation of removal; and</text> </subitem><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4646E4976AC54C3F83051C42FCA322AE"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f), in paragraph (1), by inserting <quote>including subsections (VI) and (VII)</quote> after <quote>the alien is described in subsection (c)(5)(C)(i) of this section</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB706D33969C447799413F24382540738"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (g)—</text> <subparagraph id="H434CD0AA6FC84DEA96DE43AD51FE1D96"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(1)</quote> before <quote>Notwithstanding</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H356D1628AEEC4DA0B0941760934FA28C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>subject to paragraph (2),</quote> after <quote>section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act)),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H486F5B248D214FB79AA6FB37AC6158D4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1712642F6E6A45B8823D050F8C09F8B9" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H806FE6BEBF1A4A9BAD924CA36C6A904F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be no limitation on a motion to reopen removal or deportation proceedings in the case of an alien who is described in subclause (VI) or (VII) of subsection (c)(5)(C)(i). Motions to reopen removal or deportation proceedings in the case of such an alien shall be handled under the procedures that apply to aliens seeking relief under section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H8650EC44A82F4FC3A1F9C4792F465FF8"><enum>206.</enum><header>Battered spouse waivers and conditional residents</header> <subsection id="HCBEB1F77A19245C1B71D082E69A753E0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grounds for hardship waiver for conditional permanent residence for intended spouses</header><text>Section 216(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1186a(c)(4)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HF201303DB21C426BAD860AF045ADB228"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)—</text> <subparagraph id="H9E1A0E11597E4C1BBD77A1885F6F0483"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after <quote>(other than through the death of the spouse)</quote> the following: <quote>, or the alien has filed for termination of marriage and shall furnish proof of termination prior to the time of adjudication,</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9BE27E435A3A47F2A1F423D5C5E8B44D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H382A84FCE49A4DE2AE3280E62A860E90"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C) by striking the period and inserting <quote>, or</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H90E83E991CAD48358A4E9B4D72C212E5"><enum>(3)</enum><text>after subparagraph (C) by inserting the fol1lowing new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H9D27B90207C84BAAA7844FA3F06A86BD" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H8EF2D4F4D8CF45F38C0FBF2F4F2050AD"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the alien meets the requirements under section 204(a)(1)(A)(iii)(II)(aa)(BB) and following the marriage ceremony has been battered by or was subject to extreme cruelty perpetrated by his or her intended spouse and was not at fault in failing to meet the requirements of paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0BA4E1BCDF22498B8B6714D40C9F60D9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical corrections</header><text>Section 216(c)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1186a(c)(4)), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended—</text> <paragraph id="H24C7F720198A41A18B1ECACD05C9D8A6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>The Attorney General, in the Attorney General's</quote> and inserting <quote>The Secretary of Homeland Security, in the Secretary's</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H787AD7FD416048FEA6366D2EFEFEBD35"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the undesignated paragraph at the end—</text> <subparagraph id="H07F6DA440FB84CBBB7CC5BA408366CB1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the first sentence, by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3DE587D3CBC3485EA8F9670D02C79490"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the second sentence, by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HABAAE90816CA4347BF1CEDA2683A6914"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in the third sentence, by striking <quote>Attorney General.</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary.</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H244F60C899E54B4F919EE2FEDBAEFE57"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in the fourth sentence, by striking <quote>Attorney General</quote> and inserting <quote>Secretary</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H823F3BEEC5804996A6AF5C7F83EEE801"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grounds for relief</header><text>Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>An application for relief under this paragraph may be based on one or more grounds specified in subparagraphs (A) through (D) and may be amended at any time to change the ground or grounds for such relief without the application being resubmitted.</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HEA3367E026B1447585EE65F0609A26EB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 237(a)(1)(H)(ii) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(ii)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>or qualifies for a waiver under section 216(c)(4)</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H60EEBF40CBF54E31B65B006B6CF07220"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Proof of termination of the marriage due at final adjudication the hardship waiver</header><text>Section 216(c)(4)(B) is amended by inserting <quote>or the alien has filed for termination of marriage and will furnish proof of termination by the time of adjudication</quote> after <quote>terminated (other than through the death of the spouse)</quote>;</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE081C6F6F9184F5D9DF709A2D66A6103"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Children of conditional residents</header><text>In the case of an alien who meets the requirements of subsection (c) the Secretary may adjust the status of any child of the alien as immediate relatives under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i) (8 U.S.C. 1151).</text> </subsection><subsection id="HD2C7BDC886844F04B4502E9C475CE8B7"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effective dates</header> <paragraph id="H48C2B49E9DE04F4EB6E6574B5F1BCD5A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply as if included in the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H006FF0D948AA4FA48F6003E77277EEB5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The amendments made by subsections (b) and (c) shall apply to applications for relief pending or filed on or after April 10, 2003.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H53C95F375ED94D24B7C404AA5F155262"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The amendments made by subsections (d) and (e) shall take effect upon enactment.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H43D8F5C9C7DB43F0A9CC518CD763F701"><enum>207.</enum><header>Asylum protections for victims of violence against women</header> <subsection id="H0ADFADBB003B4E0CB1560018A1E39157"><enum>(a)</enum><text>Section 101(a)(42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(42)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H4D58753EAD2941D095F3DE81338A9532" style="OLC"> <text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of determinations under this Act, any group whose members share a characteristic that is either immutable or fundamental to identity, conscience, or the exercise of one’s human rights such that the person should not be required to change it, shall be deemed a particular social group, without any additional requirement.</text> <after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HCDE0193B242D4DA2A74CB506CC5A32ED"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Section 208(b)(1)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(b)(1)(B)) is amended by inserting a new clause (iii), as follows, and renumbering thereafter:</text> <quoted-block id="HEEE5F0D653134335B7340FC4018FF979" style="OLC"> <clause id="HEED826B4CBD74C5DA66596052D4C02DC"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Supporting evidence accepted</header><text>Direct or circumstantial evidence, including evidence that the State is unable to protect the applicant or that the State, legal or social norms tolerate such persecution against persons like the applicant, may establish that persecution is on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HC47104B6347E45EFAA7337726AC0A90C"><enum>(c)</enum><text>Section 208(d)(6) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)(6)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HABFF5BAAD5CC481CA0021EE96BC582FA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A) <header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">In general</header-in-text>—</quote> after <quote>(6)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4DCB3979BEA940CF89FC2B07DBB586ED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H62A628B6C24143F48EFFA69821C19294" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H6EC8CB7774604143BAE05911C36953D1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to an alien who is otherwise eligible for classification or status as a VAWA self-petitioner, as described in section 101(a)(51) of this Act, or who is otherwise eligible for status either under section 101(a)(15)(T) or section 101(a)(15)(U) of this Act.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9BDB964DE6BD4FCCA27BF4AFFAAE1466"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Spouses and Children of Asylum Applicants Under Adjustment Provisions</header> <paragraph id="HACA7ECCB2F0A459D8BE2879119F78670"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 209(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)(3)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HF6FECF54DC6648EAB743795F02071F64"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(3)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA6AC26C3C14341828C15071D8A52BE13"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H2FFE11850A7B48649BDDE239BA14553E" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H35FC8FCCF6AF41FD949F2D47B09977B0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>was the spouse of a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42)(A) at the time the asylum application was granted; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3C32591B653545A9A218FD7F11F896B8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>was the child of a refugee within the meaning of section 101(a)(42)(A) at the time the asylum application was filed,</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC538A9E281E7481086896DA68C1D926C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and—</text> <subparagraph id="H6327C448B91344E5B21CBA27DD702928"><enum>(A)</enum><text>section 209(b)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)(3)(B)), as added by paragraph (1)(B), shall apply to spouses of refugees for whom an asylum application is granted before, on, or after such date; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6569FB3DBE054A01861EFC31DD7037EE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 209(b)(3)(C) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1159(b)(3)(C)), as so added, shall apply with respect to the child of a refugee for whom an asylum application is filed before, on, or after such date.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H676D7D88CA2B4EAFA2F18D117E135BCD"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Children of refugee or asylee spouses and children</header><text>A child of an alien who qualifies for admission as a spouse or child under section 207(c)(2)(A) or 208(b)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1157(c)(2)(A) and 1158(b)(3)) shall be entitled to the same admission status as such alien if the child—</text> <paragraph id="H6EE9D5C775F3448997D1B7DDD01C33B0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>is accompanying or following to join such alien; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE92D769F41394644AC4C08E0CCF57F2C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>is otherwise admissible under such section 207(c)(2)(A) or 208(b)(3).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7ECD7E26D25D48D5A9E3DB7917683686"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Elimination of arbitrary time limits on asylum applications</header><text>Section 208(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(a)(2)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H941D9B8614A24BFE80921C72E6292826"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (B);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H51D4426B87624ED7A53B404907F91F99"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H06A03BBAC9584855B264B8A4EF436DE3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), as redesignated, by striking <quote>(D)</quote> and inserting <quote>(C)</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HEA0950BE7FD14E39ACF20B76E0B7F347"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (C), as redesignated, and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H92EFEE8555264076AD99F128E80C23F6" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HA3EF1A20F4AF43299DA07CE9AB6F14E4"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Changed circumstances</header><text>Notwithstanding subparagraph (B), an application for asylum of an alien may be considered if the alien demonstrates, to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, the existence of changed circumstances that materially affect the applicant’s eligibility for asylum.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC7DED7B87408472191274A29B1BF343E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (E).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H86A552D66A8447069A582919AFAEED8A"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Protections for Minors Seeking Asylum</header><text>Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1158) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H651DDD4C207B4C36B5AE840B66C4E9B9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H61A4ACC8514443FFB972046CEC4956B1" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF69CA5B3443848E2AC1C61350FA284ED"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Applicability to minors</header><text>Subparagraphs (A) and (B) do not apply to an applicant who is younger than 18 years of age on the earlier of—</text> <clause id="H054175468C8E4B6C83324751B46C4F05"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date on which the asylum application is filed; or</text> </clause><clause id="HC0F4942411D34FCE8F50E581419AB691"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date on which any Notice to Appear is issued.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5D11F9ACCE8549F7B89A6624FCAC36C2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(3)(C), by striking <quote>unaccompanied alien child (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))),</quote> and inserting:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H358CF247FC8D4906AB9AE52881B91975" style="OLC"> <text>applicant who is younger than 18 years of age on the earlier of—</text><clause id="H14CC4B52A3204D7EA1477040C9F55D54"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date on which the asylum application is filed; or</text> </clause><clause id="H6CE056F733FD4B1483E78ABD27A51AD4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the date on which any Notice to Appear is issued,</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HDC864F9DE7FB4F0BA054324527D06027"><enum>208.</enum><header>Protections from removal for victims</header> <subsection id="H52C5AD873BE74A0A826CC83D17223712"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Exception for VAWA Self-Petitioners</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 212(a)(9)(B)(iii)(IV) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(B)(iii)(IV)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H7A658B76983347579AA49E6296F8DCF4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(I)</quote> after <quote>(6)(A)(ii)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H9CE165CDD0B3499A8AD72BBC1CAD0079"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>if <quote>violation of the terms of the alien’s nonimmigrant visa were substituted for unlawful entry into the United States</quote> in subclause (III) of that paragraph</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1E1E4DA469DB43F3A7FCE406FA98FB97"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Waivers for abused aliens</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 212(a)(9)(C)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(C)(iii)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H1139ACB468AA4E189E94EB6F1EE8531A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or the Attorney General</quote> after <quote>Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC0A03D8DB0D140DA92733F549A31B308"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the language following <quote>clause (i)</quote> and inserting <quote>for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, when it is otherwise in the public interest, or in the case of an alien who is applying for or has a claim of relief as a VAWA self-petitioner</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H68BF952845B74A48B3E3307C335D9B4B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exemption from public charge ground</header> <paragraph id="HEB476AD458B64F70AB02375BCBAC4420"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H178515CE9FFA435E9B9E24F247CE622F" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H4F70EA9677A44FF5AB6019A7CFCDB969"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Special rule for qualified alien victims</header><text>Subparagraphs (A) through (C) shall not apply to an alien who is a VAWA self-petitioner, is an applicant or has been granted status under section 101(a)(15)(U), or is a qualified alien described in section 431(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDFEABBF41B1C457CBC454CA1C02E9A29"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 212(a)(4)(C)(i) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)(C)(i)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H7051A5BDF7844AECA16D26CC51B3EE2F" style="OLC"> <clause id="HB85EDC58417E498EA543E5C6EE789EEE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the alien is described in subparagraph (E); or</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3E1CFA1CEAFB40BDA2D75C9EFAEB3F71"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply regardless of whether the alien’s application was filed before, on, or after such date.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2F4FCA5BA0BE4B15BA124103E811CCAA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Waiver for false claims to United States citizenship</header><text>Section 212(a)(6)(C)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3D25081ED27D4619B468197952EB0D63"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subclause:</text> <quoted-block id="H7465AFF4088944A49CF1D079EFC71559" style="OLC"> <subclause id="H1A1C67C85960418AA985AA62C7FF07E1"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>An alien who is a VAWA self-petitioner shall not be considered to be inadmissible under any provision of this subsection based on such representation.</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H29BA62ED09BF49109A22D35845633994"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 101(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(f)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H852EED27B3F64F49B65D7E530F899C42"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the last sentence of this subsection, by striking <quote>,</quote> after <quote>or violation that he or she was a citizen</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8DFFC1BE16A34189A277C04A65C86D47"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>; or the alien is a VAWA self-petitioner;</quote> after <quote>violation that he or she was a citizen</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2196EE85B1554918AF2D082FFB3DB618"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Waiver for certain VAWA self-Petitioners</header><text>Section 212(d)(11) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(d)(11)) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>The Attorney General may waive the application of clause (i) of subsection (a)(6)(E) in the case of an alien who is a VAWA self-petitioner.</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H152A0E0203104523BAC3C1F8C41B79A8"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Waiver authorized</header><text>Section 212(a)(9)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(9)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following new clause:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7236D301AE364E5BB9A1A4C0DA996590" style="OLC"> <clause id="HD0C9C0D86A674CFBA03A7207CD723411"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>waiver for VAWA self-petitioner</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General or the Secretary may waive the application of clauses (i) or (ii) if the alien is applying for relief as a VAWA self-petitioner.</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H530D9E0715EE4B809FB27415EC6A2EFA"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Conforming relief in suspension of deportation parallel to the relief available in the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 cancellation for bigamy</header> <paragraph id="HCF4B6594E1AA4808886AE0F3F6726FAB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 244(a)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1254a(a)(3)) (as in effect before the title III–A effective date in section 309 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) shall be applied as if <quote>or by a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident whom the alien intended to marry, but whose marriage is not legitimate because of that United States citizen’s or permanent resident’s bigamy</quote> were inserted after <quote>by a spouse or parent who is a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8033BDD7403D4FBF9E131848E32A7BFD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The provisions of paragraph (1) shall apply as if included in the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8853822560FD4842A86A514D793965F0"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Application of VAWA motions To reopen rules crime victims</header><text>Section 240(c)(7)(C)(iv) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1230(c)(7)(C)(iv)), as redesignated by section 101(d)(1) of the REAL ID Act of 2005 (division B of Public Law 109–13), is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H7626C8C9335348A8BA01375EB6092DDE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first clause by deleting <quote>and parents—</quote> and adding <quote>parents, trafficking victims and crime victims—</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H435D3DEA2082468EBA33A6559A57C3CE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending subclause (I) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HC2C4D8138C434B6F982A0174531F5026" style="OLC"> <subclause id="HC7EABA894D984E68B6523C5DD41C37FD"><enum>(I)</enum><text>if the basis for this motion is to apply for relief under sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15(U), 245(a), 245(c), 245(l), 245(m), 240A(b)(2), and section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997) or as a VAWA self-petitioner;</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H916B7507F50C4BBAACA6B64D23F2BFA7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending subclause (II) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H9CD1B8F36C394C38B4646C216EC316BC" style="OLC"> <subclause id="H601FEF67F31B4D3B8AE46A5C0C0F552F"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if the motion is accompanied by a cancellation of removal or adjustment of status application to be filed with the Attorney General or by a copy of the self-petition, or the application for relief under 101(a)(15)(T) or (U), that has been or will be filed with the Department of Homeland Security upon the granting of the motion to reopen; and</text> </subclause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="H04AB3803A0324ED4AA537C16CD8B6ECF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in the last paragraph of this section—</text> <subparagraph id="H93FB069700554D5696E27746400FD162"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or an alien who qualifies for classification under 101(a)(15(U)</quote> after <quote>Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641(c)(1)(B))</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC741DCB5ED2940EB9B46A5D3F742B09D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote> or an alien that qualifies for classification under 101(a)(15)(U)</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H257413FA1D2F45B3A61D7A6E17C4A2E4"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 241 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1231) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H4295426653D24610AA4ECFE5A43ABCD6" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H3DE21344F21240B082FDFCF0F0860022"><enum>(h)</enum><text>Any alien with a pending application under 101(a)(15)(T)(i) or T(i), 101(a)(15)(U)(i) or (U)(ii), 101(a)(51), 240A(b)(2), or 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997), shall not be ordered removed under this section.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="HB0BF7DDD97AE40F69BAD32470DF1BC29"><enum>209.</enum><header>Naturalization</header> <subsection id="H2B2A85A02BCD44E1837C8AF694F6C858"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 319(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1430(a)) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H0B94195E7D84403E8BD156533D681D85" style="OLC"> <subsection id="id0B1678D891994060902086970483BF22"><enum>(a)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id4E388D3C439D4CE991FA024B6230D9ED"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Any person who is—</text> <subparagraph id="HC57D57E79A3D4368BECA1CED3D4BEA0A" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a spouse of citizen of the United States; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA8AB48CF5F304A419F56BC818F6F4EFF" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any person who obtained status as a lawful permanent resident and who was battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a United States citizen who is or was a spouse, parent, son or daughter; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H38456E371BF840B8930A2B3A73B30CFA" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>may be naturalized—</text> <subparagraph id="H7247FD054E3146AEA1E1C49DDDB465CF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>upon compliance with all the requirement of this title except the provisions of paragraph (1) of section 316(a);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H66568408D9704C389930E62CA8741A2D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if such person immediately preceding the date of filing his or her application for naturalization has resided continuously, after being lawfully admitted for permanent residence, within the United States for at least three years;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3A14FD051A2D4768A4CBED9EA5A64529"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H4E4674A48D5D4126A7B8F1760CB01937"><enum>(i)</enum><text>during the three years immediately preceding the date of filing his or her application has been living in marital union with the citizen spouse who has been a United States citizen during all of such period; and</text> </clause><clause id="id453990CE698440F19D65C934C94FC364" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a person who has been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a United States citizen spouse, parent, son or daughter, the requirement of subsection (C)(i) shall not apply regardless of whether the lawful permanent resident status was obtained on the basis of such battery or cruelty;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6A97E2D2F36343A0AA28190B4394FB7B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>has been physically present in the United States for periods totally at least half of the time;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB51B567FEA2941A1BF40D6D8569B6338"><enum>(E)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HFD94415560604CC8BB3D26A31C9E99E3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>has resided within the State or district of the Services in the United States in which the applicant filed his or her application for at least three months; or</text> </clause><clause id="H46FED8F382B7490195578E4E15F642D2" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>applications for naturalization filed under paragraph (a)(1)(B) of this section shall be handled under the procedures that apply to aliens seeking relief under section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H033EBD49E0FD450C87CDFF3A503C81B9"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the provisions of section 204(a)(1)(J) shall apply in acting on an application under this subsection in the same manner as they apply in acting on petitions referred to in such section.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H99EACE324342478EAD3EABD0D030D39B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply to applications for naturalization filed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H3952C4AD2F2A45609C32BF28BEE962CA"><enum>210.</enum><header>General provisions</header> <subsection id="H0F0AAC50E9EA459294389F7A85455109"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Expansion of fee waivers to consular fees and any fees in removal proceedings</header><text>Section 245(l)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255(l)(7)) is amended to insert <quote>the Secretary of State, an immigration judge, and the Board of Immigration Appeals</quote> after <quote>The Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7FF191E0103940CC806F733BD3A7BA05"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Review of extreme cruelty</header><text>Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C 1154(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB9E862AC85B04DED90EB4EE3DC6ED44F" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H578757CBB52A4082BC8B10AE750FA705"><enum>(M)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For the purposes of this section and in all cases described in section 101(a)(51), under section 106, under section 240A(b)(2), or under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997), the determination of the existence of extreme cruelty is a question of law applied ot facts and not a discretionary determination.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H211497DDE0E04F0FAFCF594D72974129"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Allowing judicial review in VAWA Cases</header><text>Section 242(e)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1252(e)(4)) is amended in subparagraph (A)—</text> <paragraph id="H92FA34E12A02412CA9035F323D1F68E6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCA697B970357495E94454F59453A15B5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or</quote> after <quote>under section 208,</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H77D75A5F6163403FAEE1A9A7F1E5D74E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H4888E3D02B14409AA93830C9CE1C579D" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H6B21DF103B7E442FA2B80D0B1A309FC5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is a VAWA self-petitioner, an applicant for relief under section 101(a)(15)(T) or (U), an applicant for relief under section 240A(b)(2), or an applicant for relief under section 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997),</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF4FFF699032440F1AD83916DF70E9A00"><enum>(d)</enum><header>VAWA Unit Adjudications</header><text>Section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(51)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H389B804515FB448F9F074E05BB1CDEE4" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H041A930EC6FD4ABB9EA42307D43CEA46"><enum>(52)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Applications for relief, adjustment of status, employment authorization, parole, deferred action, or naturalization, and all administrative determinations relating to such applications under paragraphs (15)(T), (15)(U), (27)(J), and (51) of this section, or under section 106 shall be adjudicated at the VAWA Unit of Vermont Service Center.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="H1AA3F564E62847C087AD06B74DF3F80D"><enum>211.</enum><header>Technical corrections</header> <subsection id="H58770D113ACC4676A362A1101F597A67"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Technical correction</header><text>Effective as if included in the enactment of section 1505(c)(2) of Violence Against Women Act of 2000, section 237(a)(1)(H)(i)(II) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(1)(H)(i)(II)) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7637F82AAF55433EA2556A387044CC83"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional technical correction</header><text>Section 237(a)(7)(A)(i)(I) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1227(a)(7)(A)(i)(I)) is amended by striking <quote>is self-defense</quote> and inserting <quote>in self-defense</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H8D32AA07AE814B968D5C265E26B9BD56"><enum>(c)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H7B06E2FFCF7E40649BC2551B1DD0AC0D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iii)(II)(aa)(CC)(bbb), by striking <quote>an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>battering or extreme cruelty by the United States citizen spouse</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H42058CD619094DE7A93C50E3C2B457A0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(iv), by striking <quote>an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>battering or extreme cruelty by such parent</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H188BE07CA43143A3B5A22E566134867C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(vii)(I), as added by section 816 of VAWA–2005, is amended by striking <quote>related to an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>related to battering or extreme cruelty by the United States citizen son or daughter</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5BEBD18A916E4E81A9E17DE48080CCAE"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii)(II)(aa)(CC)(aaa), by striking <quote>due to an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>related to battering or extreme cruelty by the lawful permanent resident spouse</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD02110F510864C28A7CED326CF180B86"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking <quote>due to an incident of domestic violence</quote> and inserting <quote>related to battering or extreme cruelty by such parent</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4B7488633C694BEBB2C9704950774B14"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, except that the amendment made by subsection (a)(3) shall apply as if included in the enactment of VAWA–2005.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H687817E4A18C4E5CB2A5CD29984B730E"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Correction of cross-Reference to credible evidence provisions</header> <paragraph id="HE354EC54634C4AC0BECD09B21A6184EB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>VAWA Suspension of Deportation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 309(c)(5)(C)(iii) of the Illegal Immigration and Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104–208; 8 U.S.C. 1101 note), as amended by section 1510(b)(2) of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, is amended by striking <quote>204(a)(1)(H)</quote> and inserting <quote>204(a)(1)(J)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD2C99FE69C2943F7B390DC9CBD020F30"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC822EC2FB40A45A994CAEDCF93C57FDE"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Miscellaneous corrections to VAWA–2005</header> <paragraph id="H0FCB3261ECBE474A83E27A2029F7150C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 204(a)(1)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(D)), is amended by striking <quote>a petitioner for preference status under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 203(a), whichever paragraph is applicable</quote> and inserting <quote>to continue to be treated as an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i), or to be a petitioner for preference status under section 203(a)(3) if subsequently married or a petitioner for preference status under section 203(a)(2)(A), whichever is applicable</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H91DACB29670A404A96471A64D07BCC1B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to applications filed before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Violence Against Women Act of 2000.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>VAWA Confidentiality</header> <section id="H71A8BEDB35B443A4990372629F5528E1" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>VAWA Confidentiality improvments</header> <subsection id="H33246B720EBD47BD9B944BA27DFE3DC7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>VAWA Confidentiality moved from IIRAIRA</header> <paragraph id="H1D992FF7564744A1867673B4F8D583B1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996 (division C of Public Law 104–208; 8 U.S.C. 1367(a)) is amended by striking section 384.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H03CE6046FB8F44FDA9D885D4BB29D97C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 239(e)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229(e)(1)) is amended by striking <quote>section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 245B</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA669E7BBE6EA497D8F794076FF30E67E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Insertion of VAWA Confidentiality in the INA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 245A the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEDBD936EB9E6446091E9075B15ED2E05" style="OLC"> <section id="H0F4B6583BDE6402DAD8D8C15CAAD2411"><enum>245B.</enum><header>Confidentiality of certain information relating to battered aliens</header> <subsection id="HA4D4D120103648F2912DE1966DDC1236"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, enforcement official may not—</text> <paragraph id="H4701044B425349579919A0B704DB6000"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">make an adverse determination, using information furnished by a VAWA perpetrator, on—</text> <subparagraph id="H69106327396B42FC921008A2016647BE"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">admissibility of an alien,</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE6E828C178E64971BA27A34AE6E7F06F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>deportability of an alien,</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H995ABB1A4F894344B38CA1BB9D372CB7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>detention of an alien,</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB931566D4D0E404B8C6E2A66CB27B974"><enum>(D)</enum><text>any application for immigration relief of an alien, or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1EB66EA4B1AD4F8191752CF0B72652B1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>whether or not to initiate an enforcement action against an alien,</text> </subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">unless the alien has been convicted of a crime or crimes listed in section 237; or</continuation-text></paragraph><paragraph id="H553673530B12473EA13AD9FE16072C08"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">permit use by or disclosure to anyone (other than a sworn officer or employee of the Department, or bureau or agency thereof, for legitimate Department, bureau, or agency purposes) of any information which relates to an alien who is the beneficiary of an application for relief under—</text> <subparagraph id="H4CBD6D6F72034EF3B1E95BC304D61AD8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>paragraph (15)(T), (15)(U), or (51) of section 101(a);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5C758076E03D4EF1AB3A5B052D34377F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>section 106;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H14AF3BE3216A40F3846F0BC66B7E4E9D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>section 240A(b)(2);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H91822750B7874088BCF1756096CF8791"><enum>(D)</enum><text>section 287(h); or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H91A7747D43E746E4B37FB0A04740E6AF"><enum>(E)</enum><text>section 244(a)(3) (as in effect prior to March 31, 1997).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA06EC765F120425F822D3ADA0EAE324C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Duration of limitation on disclosure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5, United States Code, the limitation under paragraph (2) ends when the application for relief is denied and all opportunities for appeal of the denial have been exhausted.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H9B9B4A487F2B4194AD1126E9A8D5E76E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exceptions to nondisclosure</header> <paragraph id="HB4E47C73FE4345C8A0B75E7F9ADCAB29"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In the same manner as census information</header><text>The Attorney General may provide, in the Attorney General's discretion, for the disclosure of information in the same manner and circumstances as census information may be disclosed by the Secretary of Commerce under section 8 of title 13, United States Code.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H75CD2B7FF4E146E8BCE3F5CEDE504F52"><enum>(2)</enum><header>For law enforcement purposes</header><text>The Attorney General may provide in the discretion of the Attorney General for the disclosure of information to Federal law enforcement officials to be used solely for a legitimate law enforcement purpose.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H22908F78E2134002B9D20B4F75E9A202"><enum>(3)</enum><header>For purposes of judicial review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed as preventing disclosure of information in connection with judicial review of a determination in an immigration case described in subsection (a) of an alien protected by this section in a manner that protects the confidentiality of such information.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBB49B133C13C4D4E83247AECEE9415BB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>In accordance with explicit waiver by victims</header><text>Subsection (a)(2) of this section shall not apply if all the battered individuals in the case are adults and they have all waived the restrictions of such subsection.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HAEEBBC883FAB494199D0673372E2FC0B"><enum>(5)</enum><header>For purposes of determining eligibility for benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security are authorized to disclose information, to Federal, State, and local public and private agencies providing benefits, to be used solely in making determinations of eligibility for benefits pursuant to section section 431(c) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641(c)), in a manner that protects the confidentiality of such information.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE94CAC6320D24CAE9196B6B292DB6FD0"><enum>(6)</enum><header>For purposes of Congressional oversight</header><text>Subsection (a) of this section may not be construed to prevent the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security from disclosing to the chairmen and ranking members of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate or the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, for the exercise of congressional oversight authority, information on closed cases under this section in a manner that protects the confidentiality of such information and that omits personally identifying information (including locational information about individuals).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5E157BE45EA844A8A8639763F88EB719"><enum>(7)</enum><header>For purposes of assisting victims in obtaining services</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Government entities adjudicating applications for relief under subsection (a)(2) of this section, and government personnel carrying out mandated duties under section 101(i)(1), may, with the prior written consent of the alien involved, communicate with nonprofit, nongovernmental victims' service providers for the sole purpose of assisting victims in obtaining victim services from programs with expertise working with immigrant victims. Agencies receiving referrals are bound by the provisions of this section. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as affecting the ability of an applicant to designate a safe organization through whom governmental agencies may communicate with the applicant.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4E4CBEAD1CEE417CBFC5280E2D3DED5F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Penalties for violation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Anyone who knowingly uses, publishes, or permits information to be disclosed in violation of this section or who knowingly makes a false certification under section 239(e) shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action and subject to a civil money penalty of not more than $5,000 for each such violation.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H84C0E103CA6341C79981C10FBD0D1AEE"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Guidance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide guidance to officers and employees of the Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security who have access to information covered by this section regarding the provisions of this section, including the provisions to protect victims of domestic violence from harm that could result from the inappropriate disclosure of covered information.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HF84D92F00F6C4A27BEB9046C1B863ED0"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Requirement To provide information about eligibility for immigration relief</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">When information is furnished by a VAWA perpetrator, the Federal, State, or local agency receiving the information shall, within 24 hours, provide to the alien to whom the information pertains informational materials about eligibility for relief under sections 101(a)(51), 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 287(h), 106, 240A(b)(2), 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997) along with referrals to local victim services agencies.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H4E5CC5B85A274BB4BCAB1D34A6B9E225"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H0E16604710764DCFB6C5F8AD7D4AC3A3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>enforcement officer</term> means—</text> <subparagraph id="H8D9D154D0B5B456491FF0A91C6DBCD1C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Attorney General;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC8635052B174D9FB9D6D6F6BD2E4CDA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of Homeland Security;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE1BC226D89B48E7981DB413E2C46AC5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Secretary of State;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9F772215ED494FFF8F844012B40C7956"><enum>(D)</enum><text>any other official or employee of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, or the Department of State (including any bureau or agency of either of any such Department); or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1AA8E64E9544432A826785B68A4D1FB2"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other State or Federal Government officer or employee.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6DB5D0C411FB44ADBF1051A8B200FC99"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The term <term>VAWA perpetrator</term> means, with regard to an alien—</text> <subparagraph id="HD981EF0E92DA45698A1180B03B0AAAF6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a spouse, parent, son, or daughter who has battered the alien or subjected the alien to extreme cruelty;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFCF921FC289245A8B2A312CCF3D1662B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a member of the family of the spouse, parent, son, or daughter of the alien, who has battered the alien or subjected the alien to extreme cruelty;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H82372673A7BE4FF1830E6C3F5E9EBFAA"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a spouse, parent, son, or daughter of the alien who has battered the alien's child or subjected the alien's child to extreme cruelty (without the active participation of the alien in the battery or extreme cruelty);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8ED6B49A2095498399696BF04CFA5F54"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a member of the family of the spouse, parent, son, or daughter of the alien who has battered the alien's child or subjected the alien's child to extreme cruelty when the spouse, parent, son, or daughter consented to or acquiesced in such battery or cruelty and the alien did not actively participate in such battery or cruelty;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDC0E7230BB554CE4AD9673DB97BAEC81"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of an alien subjected to criminal activities listed in section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii), or an alien applying for status under section 101(a)(15)(U), the perpetrator of the criminal activity;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H285277EFADD74C4FBBF81856A4F3B0DD"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of an alien subjected to a severe form of human trafficking or applying for status—</text> <clause id="H13BA9C027EED4C5C9E357098E6F04424"><enum>(i)</enum><text>under section 101(a)(15)(T),</text> </clause><clause id="HDCEDD8230840499080396AE8500B6CD0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>under section 7105(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of title 22, United States Code,</text> </clause><clause id="HFB0A5A277DC843B6B57F737E99B43A93"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>under section 244(a)(3) of this Act (as in effect prior to March 31, 1999), or</text> </clause><clause id="HB943C92A8BA34D1FAEC00BCADD5AA8C2"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>as a VAWA self-petitioner (as defined in section 101(a)(51)),</text> </clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">the trafficker or perpetrator; or</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA249C4E2F0784131B40CB996950D41FB"><enum>(G)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of an alien who is—</text> <clause id="H0814E02361844BEC997FE7F317D93131"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a VAWA self petitioner (as defined in section 101(a)(51)), or</text> </clause><clause id="H14019EFE01BB404CAF98C7C432CE8FC8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an alien described in section 106, 240A(b)(2), 287(h), or 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997),</text> </clause></subparagraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="paragraph">a spouse, parent, son or daughter of the alien or a member of the family of such spouse, parent, son or daughter who battered the alien (or the alien’s child) or subjected the alien (or the alien’s child) to battering or extreme cruelty.</continuation-text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HA471726F7F7643BBBCF6D72A26B2A8F1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>VAWA Confidentiality in removal proceedings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 239(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229(e)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HB48679FF69BE4A70B3FC1C0948622E4E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (1), by inserting after <quote>an alien at</quote> the following: <quote>or within 500 yards of</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H02426F7816FF44C7A1E2745DB434CDA4"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting after <quote>supervised visitation center</quote> the following: <quote>hospital, Federally qualified health center, governmental and nongovernmental child, elder and adult protective services agency, school and head start program, religious or faith-based organization</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H800B5AE2B06F404EA90D3E0CD1C02EBA"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Expansion of definition of VAWA self-Petitioner</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(51)) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HAB07A5F5A6EA492A898B52F8747E4014"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (F), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3FE5FB9A053341F3A1B477BCCC9DC9AF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph (G), by striking the period at the end and inserting the following: <quote>;</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H402BB2477D4249C0A7B0E7CAC6F0413D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8031828A7B8E4AC3BBF376E681EF6BCB" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H68891E7867CF4087BDC4DDCB70965E3E"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">section 106; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC8D7B64E5D4B4E179D0CA6941799F8F6"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">special immigrant juveniles described in section 287(h).</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1E60E803CEA347518D6205A4FD55E110"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Additional requirements for section 287<enum-in-header>(g)</enum-in-header> agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1357(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07DEAF57D560490D90D2C4845C1E6427" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H0785974642984CF39EF83641FA4DF2C4"><enum>(11)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HBA432BC3E7F74F54AD1DA482BBE76A3C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All agreements (new or renewed) under this subsection executed by the Attorney General after the date of enactment of this subparagraph shall require that an officer or employee of a State or political subdivision of a State performing a function under the agreement shall, as a term of the agreement—</text> <clause id="H13DF1E17CAD44031977AE7B31DB13FA0" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>comply with policies, procedures and practices established by that State or subdivision that are publicized in the jurisdictions the officer or employee serves;</text> </clause><clause id="H3D2FD4A2BA7F4D64AB4CF3CB78FADBBE" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>issue certifications for non-citizen victims under section 101(a)(15)(U); and</text> </clause><clause id="H098F5A4364D6400C9B46A92DB77D60F0" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">comply with and not violate the requirements of section 245B in the same manner and subject to the same sanctions as an employee of the Department of Homeland Security.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBB2B4ED54F264F0B8B5D15F885E88F0D" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after entering into an agreement under this subsection, and annually thereafter, the State or subdivision shall report to the Department of Homeland Security the following—</text> <clause id="HE5D2D20471294A6090B107C37796B628"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the number of requests for certification under section 101(a)(15)(U);</text> </clause><clause id="H76E784110C6E4979A2C326F789423140"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the number of U-visa certifications issued;</text> </clause><clause id="H866F7276F95E44A3B7BAE2039352778D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the number of T-visa endorsements requests received; and</text> </clause><clause id="H6EBC2007073F4BEF893F82E0D3C58BAB"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>the number of T-visa certifications issued.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9C54DA7A834F4349B93F7812AEBA0701" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit an annual report to Congress listing the name of each State or subdivision and the information provided under subparagraph (B).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Training improvements</header> <section id="H8D6B34DCAC84446DBF79AE7C68CC8763"><enum>401.</enum><header>Training</header> <subsection id="H97044AE89A30474EA022CA16ECC9D192"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Training of immigration judges in the executive office of immigration review</header><text>Personnel of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the State Department who are in a position to come in contact with alien victims of crime shall be trained in identifying, making determinations regarding and providing for the protection of crime victims who have or may be eligible to apply for relief under Immigration and Nationality Act sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 101(a)(51), 106, 240A(b)(2), 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1999) or section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 710). Trainings developed under this paragraph shall include information on the range of forms of immigration relief available to help immigrant crime victims and the requirements of VAWA confidentiality 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367). Officials to receive ongoing training include but are not limited to—</text> <paragraph id="H5038D9473FD74214A793735E7EF75C0B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Department of Justice—</text> <subparagraph id="H2A78F2EEFA2F43A1B53650AAC048421E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>immigration judges;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA2CF7AE2747D47D888659466D404D54D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Board of Immigration Appeals; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB3CA413F6D634D5FB0771BB2FB3A2704"><enum>(C)</enum><text>officials responsible for investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating VAWA confidentiality violations of section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367);</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H89D42ACA8F204DD581504896D03523D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Department of Homeland Security—</text> <subparagraph id="HED0E3675128847F8ADCBD9705E244BB6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Administrative Appeals Unit employees;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H653B7F5F57A3411B853117DA3034F655"><enum>(B)</enum><text>VAWA Unit employees;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3B4AE824689A49F6A73B83A3E0DBA4EA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>officials responsible for investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating VAWA confidentiality violations of section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4DB6C08D0B6D4AF0B5A8A30DA894A23C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>personnel involved in immigration enforcement at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5C4166C5450349A6B3228BF7E11C51B9"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Immigration and Customs Enforcement trial attorneys; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8013C7852E0347FFADB97FEFDE6DF1EE"><enum>(F)</enum><text>all personnel involved in managing or supervising the VAWA Unit or ICE trial attorneys; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD568B2FCA5CF42139523D24E4188CB84"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Department of State—</text> <subparagraph id="HCEE8B9A7766448D3B8903090283D7B35"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consular officials; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCD9B0BA5BAA7413D8B3CADCEC3099BAA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>officials responsible for coordination of State Department efforts regarding application for relief under Immigration and Nationality Act sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 101(a)(51), 106, 240A(b)(2), 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1999) or section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 710).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H695323267ADF458F970E4D161F3691BA"><enum>(b)</enum><text>Any training program conducted in satisfaction of the requirement of paragraph (a) has been or will be developed with input from and in collaboration nonprofit, nongovernmental experts with experience working with immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or human trafficking.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H6C6F5C95E6ED49F6B62D8F3423679C52"><enum>(c)</enum><text>Within 180 days after the effective date of this act, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, and the Department of State shall in consultation with the Office of Policy and Strategy of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services shall establish program for ongoing training described in paragraph (a) and shall craft and implement policies and protocols on the appropriate handling of cases involving victims described in or who have filed cases under Immigration and Nationality Act sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 101(a)(51), 106, 240A(b)(2), 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1999) or section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Victims 14 Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 710). All policies and procedures developed pursuant to this section shall be made publically available and posted on the DHS website.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HF3B4F12EEB9445689CE0EFDC84818F5C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Accredited representative-Victim client privilege</header> <paragraph id="HCD73B886BEE242819B834056DD1A9E87"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Extending State victim-advocate privilege laws to accredited representatives</header><text>It is the Sense of Congress that all States should promulgate victim-advocate privilege laws and that State victim-advocate privilege laws should be implemented in a manner that extends victim-advocate privilege to accredited representatives working for community-based organizations recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals in the representation of victims in cases filed with the Department of Homeland Security, the Board of Immigration Appeals or immigration judges.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCFB3FD78B60A4A4CABFE6A59B5880922"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Regulations amended to offer accredited representative privilege</header><text>Within 180 days of enactment, the Board of Immigration Appeals shall amend 8 C.F.R. 292.1(a)(4) to extend privilege co-extensive with attorney client privilege to accredited representatives and qualified recognized organizations to whom the Board of Immigration Appeals has provided recognition or accreditation.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H68388898D3F2469E94EDDA263D190314"><enum>402.</enum><header>Services for Trafficking Victims</header> <subsection id="H95AADC19BF494A7483C37848D291480D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Access to victim’s services</header> <paragraph id="HE5A441A98DF342C59F9C6C1E1493AE98"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Subsection 107(c) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H44F7B30CD98842708358782998CEE2EA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by deleting paragraph (2) and replacing it with the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HD1800D35B5034F12B59220F88B8F4EF9" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H4F54B7ED6BB94D2BA7CBB2ECA5333099"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Access to information and services</header><text>Victims and potential victims of severe forms of trafficking shall have access to information about their legal rights and shall be provided translation services. A list of victim services agencies shall be provided within 24 hours of discovery of a potential victim. Potential victims shall not be placed in any local, State, or Federal jail or detention facility unless it has clearly been ascertained that an individual is not a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H82E29EE5CD98479B81E4490D2AB2DBD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3) by deleting <quote>Federal law enforcement officials</quote> and inserting <quote>Any Federal and local law enforcement agents authorized to investigate trafficking in persons crimes</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFCBBC3222A9C49CBB24D73B7BFA1D8B9"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 103 of the trafficking victims protection act of 2000 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H656D4C8AF84E46C2857E247331A054D1" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H21248F4C3AE9466696D41178A3405DF2"><enum>(15)</enum><text>the term <term>victim services</term> means a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that assists trafficking victims, including trafficking, battered women and sexual assault crisis centers, trafficking and battered women’s shelters, and other trafficking, sexual assault or domestic violence programs, including nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations assisting trafficking victims through the legal process.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA766B99F17434E5FA52049BC2BA49858"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5A284CDE514A4756941FC2632F2662AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments for public and assisted housing</header><text>Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H9C93ED4FF50F4D57B3056A8D181C8E21"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subsection (a) to read as such subsection would have read if the amendments to such subsection made by section 3(b) of Public Law 106–504 were made to such subsection rather than to section 214(a) of the Housing Community Development Act of 1980;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HAE7EC6E880C44234AF6133E4AB25976A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a), as amended by paragraph (1) of this subsection—</text> <subparagraph id="HFF5D05A1E29843A79ACE78EF6FA216BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (6), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5FCF9FB6536D4F19934B444E67CD2687"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph (8); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H50D41A2350B345339808F64197D185B3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block id="HF4A2F3EBEE464052BDB40F902B79474D" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H90A52C73E10D4E0BB17F831A7E0FEA5D"><enum>(7)</enum><text>a qualified alien, as such term is defined in section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641); or</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0E0FDD698B684D33BEDC781EFC7FC1ED"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text> <subparagraph id="H650FDF19DB3742F9A2D613F884BACE2E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by striking <quote>(6)</quote> and inserting <quote>(8)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H25AA0EDA390841CFACE996324DF33740"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by inserting <quote>(other than a qualified alien, as such term is defined in section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1641)</quote> after <quote>any alien</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7D0DB30607E443C4B4CF70DD867DFCD9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Improving Access to Benefits for Immigrant Victims</header> <paragraph id="H7DF3AC285B37490F9DDA12D740C6EED1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Secretary of Department of Agriculture and the and Secretary of the Department of Education, shall develop an information pamphlet, as described in paragraph (2), on legal rights for immigrant victims to access public benefits and distribute and make such pamphlet available as described in paragraph (5). In preparing such materials, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall consult with nongovernmental organizations with expertise on the legal rights to public benefits access for immigrant victims of battery, extreme cruelty, sexual assault, and other crimes.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0FC322104E0E42F28C620BAFA4D430F6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Information pamphlet</header><text>The information pamphlet developed under paragraph (1) shall include information on the following:</text> <subparagraph id="HA2530DD60A044369AD0F7E1CDC37EB4B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Definition of Qualified Immigrants eligible for Federal public benefits.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCDFB5BB02477482E9F8CA1F01C3DA166"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Housing rights of qualified immigrant.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD57FB615D4484B2DA4FF887AD2E9C291"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Federal- and State-funded housing programs open to all immigrants including emergency shelter and transitional housing for up to two years.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5BF0A45C5C2D4498A7DEC5F1A012FEF0"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Qualified immigrant access to post-secondary financial aid, grants and loans.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7F7C97BDA0804304B96730E4872EA124"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Qualified immigrant access to Federal means tested public benefits including access to—</text> <clause id="HC1742031F48A4B668D5829A3FCDA8B50"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Medicaid;</text> </clause><clause id="HB792B8EB820D4837975D2320383E7110"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Medicaid and SCHIP for qualified immigrant children and pregnant women;</text> </clause><clause id="H8D2339CC4BBC447FBC40A436188E982B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>food stamps;</text> </clause><clause id="HDF5AB50C48C34E0BAD008F329AF142CA"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>food stamps for qualified immigrant children;</text> </clause><clause id="HB3C25A9688BD4F74A11A00DED87D30FC"><enum>(v)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">SSI;</text> </clause><clause id="H627A0BBAB387418C8B85289005477730"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">TANF;</text> </clause><clause id="HB4E0FDA5FEA74E1CAC720650165F8F58"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>child care; and</text> </clause><clause id="HB2D757AE66FD482FB28B11ABEEC9BE78"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>foster care/adoption assistance, child support services.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE5B8039FBB3F449DBED50F499AB8B377"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Legal rights of immigrants to access programs, resources and services that are—</text> <clause id="H3FE276E655B34B3B92C4CB6EA80EB8EA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>necessary to protect life and safety;</text> </clause><clause id="H29CD985D26544586ACA465C3C9EB690C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act;</text> </clause><clause id="HEAE225B8F47E4193ADCACCD92E63F271"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>short-term, non-cash, in-kind emergency disaster relief;</text> </clause><clause id="HD81E7E7851704A3EBC81D1790D01DE60"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>public health assistance for immunizations and treatment for symptoms of communicable diseases;</text> </clause><clause id="H848F9017D1774459BB6C0119C974CE1E"><enum>(v)</enum><text>programs for housing or community development assistance or financial assistance administered by the secretary of HUD;</text> </clause><clause id="HD8864D34229D490EABCF671205372E24"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>HHS HRSA funded health care programs; and</text> </clause><clause id="H54AB96ED48DC42539EC3559750F37B0C"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>State-funded benefits.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9B2FAC62E399479F893D6D71BEFD7B28"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Resources through which victims can obtain referrals to programs in their community and/or State that provide advocacy, social services, legal services and other supportive services to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, elder abuse or crime victims.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD79006AA36AF4B4A91FEE1BF1837495A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Translation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to best serve the language groups having the greatest concentration of immigrants seeking public benefits, the information pamphlet developed under paragraph (1) shall, subject to subparagraph (B), be translated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services into foreign languages that at a minimum include the top 15 languages of legal permanent residents and shall be responsible for reviewing these languages every 5 years and adding additional languages accordingly such other languages as the Secretary of State, in the Secretary’s discretion, may specify.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6FED7F11ED3E4C92897255F13C0B1937"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Availability and distribution</header><text>The information pamphlet developed under paragraph (1) shall be made available and distributed as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="HD6CE085368414A09868D6BF1D56A9684"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Federal agencies described in subparagraph (C) shall distribute the pamphlet developed under subparagraph (1) to all—</text> <clause id="H10EE5566F11B4C6DBEB3751FF7E7424A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>agency grantees;</text> </clause><clause id="HBB55CF35C048449DA02C1624F58EF446"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>State agencies responsible for granting Federal public benefits; and</text> </clause><clause id="HA8D47348E2E140098D4BB60B5D8C9E83"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>public housing authorities.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8F2F68DDB99F46D5B0E52C46DE4949AA"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Posting on Federal Websites</header><text>The pamphlet developed under paragraph (1) shall be accessibly posted on the Websites of each of the Federal Government agencies listed in subparagraph (C).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H738559D530F3458C9592DE6128C2A48C"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Responsible Federal agencies</header> <clause id="H8231C1E4EB734B79BE1F5DA49BCB239B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Department of Health and Human Services;</text> </clause><clause id="HFB7ACE3D3879423894FE5CD9EF0D30FE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Department of Agriculture;</text> </clause><clause id="H892768C50B5649B6876C9B6DC4470D0B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Department of Housing and Urban Development;</text> </clause><clause id="H1161F52035884794856349CE97FF9D75"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Department of Education; and</text> </clause><clause id="H6AAF3166BA6641BD8DCC8456A686CFD5"><enum>(v)</enum><text>Department of Homeland Security.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEF907278FB7A401AA82C0B6216706EC6"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Deadline for pamphlet development and distribution</header><text>The pamphlet developed under paragraph (1) shall be distributed and made available (including in the languages specified under paragraph (4)) not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFA56B5E1A8814DD8B4F1B6AE6916DD15"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section apply to applications for public benefits and public benefits provided on or after the date of the enactment of this Act without regard to whether regulations to carry out such amendments are implemented.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H4D87FF5178CC447280F3477C4112C0EC"><enum>403.</enum><header>Encouraging Custody determinations and VAWA Confidentiality protections in State courts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subtitle J of title IV of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 14043 et seq.) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H74F81099E0344E0991A7A87C3EB04D88"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2) of section 41002, by inserting <quote>(including under 8 U.S.C. 1367), U-visa certification under the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 214(p),</quote> after <quote>confidentiality</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H13B6CFACAFD4430C914FB620A021ED08"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in section 41003—</text> <subparagraph id="H41F3F22D0D4A45DF92A463607955F151"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(B), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCF1522097B194C78B31D6C070CC68972"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (C), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6E1929743669427FA4DDB4F380611EE3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H0FF9965D176F42AFB8483DAD8B2A388F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H98CDEEACF5B14B89AE27863678457764"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Priority should given to applicans in which the grantee’s trainings and organizational policies, practices, procedures, and rules encourage judges issuing protection orders to include child custody provisions in the protection order when the parties before the court have a child in common.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HCDA21AB997F449AF9FC57D667B0FA02B"><enum>404.</enum><header>Improving language access to services provided under the violence against women’s act of 1994 for persons with limited English proficiency</header> <subsection id="HB176B4D8306B4AFEAE11D748CE581CE9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Goals</header> <paragraph id="H697F779A1E7049CA9739EEB2E4B9924A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To improve access to programs, activities, and services for victims of violence and other individuals who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their English proficiency.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF763958253E24ADF9D522FB7348201F9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To ensure that the programs, activities, and services for victims of violence that are normally provided in English are accessible to victims and other individuals with Limited English Proficiency and thus do not discriminate on the basis of national origin in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and its implementing regulations.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5BBE7A2B197F4E1796A377B4CEB1BEC8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To confirm that violation of language access rights for Limited English Proficient individuals is a violation of the protections against discrimination based on national origin protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H98D19AF86FE94086A2046A6B85A58BB7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To restore the right of Limited English Proficient individuals to a private right of action to enforce all Title VI protection including disparate impact protections.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4C08F4470D6945A8BB8BA703040923B9"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To provide a statutory definition of <quote>limited English proficient</quote> that is consistent with the definition set forth by the DOJ LEP Guidance, 67 Fed. Reg. 41455, 41459 (June 18, 2002).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2F347AAD410D44B592BD5843F6907CDD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>Limited English Proficient—</text> <paragraph id="HF633CC5CF48B4239B45CF762A8101374"><enum>(1)</enum><text><term>Limited English Proficient</term> means individuals who—</text> <subparagraph id="HF8B4390B539D48889F40F48F7F4FA2E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>who do not speak English as their primary language; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3353716A78E24E74833F1CEBB775EFCB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>who have a limited ability to</text> <clause id="HC36E351B6924414D977C661337D14866"><enum>(i)</enum><text>read;</text> </clause><clause id="H711C9F31F199400DAD1484AA513121AD"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>write;</text> </clause><clause id="H729FD371836C44B8A91BA92574939A80"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>speak; or</text> </clause><clause id="H1ADBCC5A1BB144EF98C6161B34149747"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>understand English.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H152507A5B47F42BAB6A7AED79C573A05"><enum>(2)</enum><text>If an individual described in subsection (A) meets any one of the requirements of subsections (B)(i), B(ii), B(iii), or B(iv) the individual is limited English proficient without regard to the fact that the individual may speak some English.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1BA7B0AFC6BC404687EF9E45472E7B0C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Enforcement with regard to government entities</header> <paragraph id="H009004C67ADE48C3BF428A40D6E6EDD5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Civil Actions for Injunctive Relief</header> <subparagraph id="HC949440F2FB840189A70125EF1498734"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Victims aggrieved; intervention by Attorney General; legal representation; commencement of action without payment of fees, costs, or security</header><text>Whenever there are reasonable grounds to believe that a Federal, State or local government entity has denied a person access to programs, activities, or services on the basis of their limited English Proficiency and in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a civil action for preventive relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order, may be instituted by the person aggrieved and, upon timely application, the Attorney General may intervene in such civil action. Upon application by the complainant and in such circumstances as the court may deem just, the court may appoint an attorney for such complainant and may authorize the commencement of the civil action without the payment of fees, costs, or security.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCC81C9411C40432AAC0909647F953DFD"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Attorney’s fees; liability of United States for costs</header><text>In any action commenced pursuant to this subchapter, the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs, and the United States shall be liable for costs the same as a private person.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5A8D3E995A444C8984A07739B700F7B6"><enum>(C)</enum><header>State or local enforcement proceedings; notification of State or local authority; stay of Federal proceedings</header><text>In the case of an alleged act or practice prohibited by this subchapter which occurs in a State, or political subdivision of a State, no civil action may be brought under subsection (a) of this section before the expiration of thirty days after written notice of such alleged act or practice has been given to the appropriate State or local authority by registered mail or in person, provided that the court may stay proceedings in such civil action pending the termination of State or local enforcement proceedings.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC25146FC741B48EEA8D50A5B67FF7D69"><enum>(D)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H5912EC179F1246A08A710FBFC5966558"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Civil rights act of 1964</header><text>Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d) is amended—</text> <subclause id="HF1DA1B334B294890B10E9448A4F1DC95"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking <quote>No</quote> and inserting <quote>(a) No</quote>; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="HAF0DC07C4C6F4E04A6973DBC6360C055"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H7924FDC8FB7A4868BFE6C71C81E0CC68" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HAD40455BEF574006B9274BAB66B59703"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H315C37792D2940C7A4DD6DE1D742BA21"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H41F51B7492A94F9CA0F871D59EFF8718"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Discrimination (including exclusion from participation and denial of benefits) based on disparate impact is established under this title only if—</text> <clause id="H460DD05516CE4C02B10B75401928C656" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a person aggrieved by discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (referred to in this title as an <term>aggrieved person</term>) demonstrates that an entity subject to this title (referred to in this title as a <term>covered entity</term>) has a policy or practice that causes a disparate impact on the basis of race, color, or national origin and the covered entity fails to demonstrate that the challenged policy or practice is related to and necessary to achieve the nondiscriminatory goals of the program or activity alleged to have been operated in a discriminatory manner; or</text> </clause><clause id="HD43705FF8339473D991F37A757852849" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the aggrieved person demonstrates (consistent with the demonstration required under title VII with respect to an <term>alternative employment practice</term>) that a less discriminatory alternative policy or practice exists, and the covered entity refuses to adopt such alternative policy or practice.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF94A043B9A1B4E55894A8CDB9B096D99"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Civil Actions by the Attorney General</header> <subparagraph id="H68F5C08687144A248A95C8C0498D468A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Complaint</header><text>Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a Federal, State or local government entity or any employee or group of employees is engaged in a pattern or practice of denying access to programs, activities, or services provided to victims under the Violence Against Women’s Act of 1994 or under any other State or Federal law, on the basis of their limited English Proficiency and in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and that the pattern or practice is of such a nature and is intended to deny access to programs, activities, or services provided to victims on the basis of their limited English Proficiency and in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States by filing with it a complaint—</text> <clause id="HFD6CD4C972A34A959A647FBF694A6708"><enum>(i)</enum><text>signed by the Attorney General (or in the Attorney General’s absence the Acting Attorney General);</text> </clause><clause id="HFD5C185CE5E64D7A9ED37A9479EF7DE1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>setting forth facts pertaining to such pattern or practice; and</text> </clause><clause id="H4D95F6C5A85C4D0288E3F294BD6CE612"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>requesting such relief, including an application for a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order or other order against the person or persons responsible for such pattern or practice, as he deems necessary to insure the full availability of programs, activities, and services provided under the to limited English proficient victims.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H18EE3760EBB54A5FA67CFBC586706BE7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>In order to ensure full enforcement under this section, the provisions of this section do not limit the ability of the Attorney General to use existing authority to bring litigation and to enforce Title VI by any another other means available to him or her under the law.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCFCE71416B1E45D79D8C7CC0751F3050"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Jurisdiction; three-judge district court for cases of general public importance: hearing, determination, expedition of action, review by Supreme Court; single judge district court: hearing, determination, expedition of action</header> <subparagraph id="HF748691466AC45C4AAABD0507D7E049B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The district courts of the United States shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction in proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, and in any such proceeding the Attorney General may file with the clerk of such court a request that a court of three judges be convened to hear and determine the case. Such request by the Attorney General shall be accompanied by a certificate that, in his opinion, the case is of general public importance. A copy of the certificate and request for a three-judge court shall be immediately furnished by such clerk to the chief judge of the circuit (or in his absence, the presiding circuit judge of the circuit) in which the case is pending. Upon receipt of such request it shall be the duty of the chief judge of the circuit or the presiding circuit judge, as the case may be, to designate immediately three judges in such circuit, of whom at least one shall be a circuit judge and another of whom shall be a district judge of the court in which the proceeding was instituted, to hear and determine such case, and it shall be the duty of the judges so designated to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date, to participate in the hearing and determination thereof, and to cause the case to be in every way expedited. An appeal from the final judgment of such court will lie to the Supreme Court.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4617F832004346DA8714BB27A6088ADF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>If no three-judge panel has been requested, the handling of the case shall be expedited. It shall be the duty of the chief judge of the district (or in his absence, the acting chief judge) in which the case is pending to immediately designate a judge in such district to hear and determine the case. In the event that no judge in the district is available to hear and determine the case, the chief judge of the district, or the acting chief judge, as the case may be, shall certify this fact to the chief judge of the circuit (or in his absence, the acting chief judge) who shall then designate a district or circuit judge of the circuit to hear and determine the case. It shall be the duty of the judge designated pursuant to this section to assign the case for hearing at the earliest practicable date and to cause the case to be in every way expedited.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H773BAEDEF0EF4B4AA29B4CEC7C91A333"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Enforcement with regard to governmental and non-Governmental entities</header> <paragraph id="H234BD19A1B8548BC94E7DC588CFDBABD"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Language access plans required—</text> <subparagraph id="H996E1857C4414A029812D89F29FCD769"><enum>(A)</enum><text>all recipients of Federal grant funding shall provide a copy of the agency’s language access plan to the Federal agency that provided their grant no later than one year after receipt of funding; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFAE8B2DA64BF4826895A10BB051D2BD5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a copy of the agencies language access plan shall be submitted as an attachment along with the first grant report due to the Federal grant maker falling after the date of the six-month anniversary of the grant award.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD752EF6ABA574B4B95C3F611947C0A9E"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Language access plan must address at a minimum the following:</text> <subparagraph id="H2CB21DAB58664C33A0428504CC47889C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The types of language services available.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H80E4D1FDC25A4A6898E8C3BB966BC052"><enum>(B)</enum><text>How staff can obtain those services.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4908395C8C1C4C7E8D65EF51C39052D7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>How to respond to LEP callers.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB8D2CCD4C6C3422697F6BA78E73488A3"><enum>(D)</enum><text>How to respond to written communications from LEP individuals.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6F8FA5852D334E06AE7FDC23BE8FB65B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>How to respond to LEP individuals who have in-person contact with recipient staff.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6FE4AA66EFB145BB867F87B5F33A21B0"><enum>(F)</enum><text>How to ensure competency of interpreter and translation services.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H51E843E8B36C417BAA82A73F74459D72"><enum>(G)</enum><text>How staff will receive training on the requirements of the policy.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H13EFAED6738B46B8BD4D8B8E7A381CAD"><enum>(H)</enum><text>How the agency provides outreach and notice of the language services available.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H96AC3D3BEB0F404FBEE30C21AE3E4806"><enum>(I)</enum><text>How to respond to complaints by LEP individuals.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H592AD2C0C71A4F13A09618EFBDAC0C1E"><enum>(J)</enum><text>How the plan will be monitored and updated.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HAC32E98E625744DEB1A6B6D36AC87A7E"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Revocation of Funding</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H23A644D8B16845598D50C11D681A4EBA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Whenever the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reasonable cause to believe that any grant recipient is engaged in a pattern or practice of denying access to programs, activities, or services provided to victims on the basis of their limited English Proficiency and in violation of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the DOJ or HHS shall require the grant recipient to prepare a plan demonstrating how it to improve access to its government-funded programs, activities, and services for victims with limited English Proficiency. Each plan shall include the steps the grant recipient will take to ensure that eligible limited English Proficiency persons can meaningfully access the grantee’s programs, activities, and services. If such a grantee fails to develop an acceptable plan with 120 days of the request, the DOJ or HHS may revoke that grantee’s funding.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H430420AC73324C9EA0176EFBEF344823"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The requirement provided by subsection (1) are in addition to the requirements set forth in 42 U.S.C. 2000d–1.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6B0C40C1C7F942C88EEC443813886D70"><enum>(4)</enum><text>All recipients and subrecipients of Federal grants shall comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting race, color, and national origin discrimination including language access for limited English proficient persons and for persons without regard to their alienage status.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFFDDC3254B674CEC95B68C7AF7BAFBF7"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header><text>All relief and assistance activities, including justice system assistance and immigration relief, offered to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, stalking, elder abuse and human trafficking shall be accomplished in an equitable and impartial manner, without discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnicity, or, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency, alienage status, or economic status.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H6EE1CD508C4D43308F102D573CB5A60C"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Interpreters for court proceedings under this section</header> <paragraph id="HFE840645348C49B8A83117A1B8063C0F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Civil actions</header><text>In any civil action brought pursuant to this section, the court shall be required to provide a foreign language interpreter.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5DF14D6E7D934FF5A06485CA61937CF1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text>The Court Interpreters Act of 1978, 28 U.S.C. 1827 is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>Interpreters shall be provided in court proceedings brought to enforce section 404 of the Violence Against Women Act of 2011 for civil actions brought by an individual or the United States.</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Access To Services</header> <section id="HB01870C0DBB4457B9223F5ECE0A0B130"><enum>501.</enum><header>Ensuring issuance of U- and T-visa certifications and access to services</header> <subsection id="H72965F8FB6C34605A6D16C03D377CD76"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Grant conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 40002 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13925) is amended in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H91CA9D7AFFBF4B3F93FC4DC1731A68A0" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HD6A0CBCAD11543E7A0351936EEC6F300"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Civil Rights</header> <subparagraph id="H1693D0BA7C594319BE39577DEADFF91F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No person in the United States shall on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, alienage status, sex, gender identity (as defined in paragraph 249(c)(4) of title 18, United States Code), sexual orientation, age, or disability be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (title IV of Public Law 103–322; 108 Stat. 1902), the Violence Against Women Act of 2000 (division B of Public Law 106–386; 114 Stat. 1491), the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (title IX of Public Law 109–162; 119 Stat. 3080), the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, and any other program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated for grants, cooperative agreements, and other assistance administered by the Office on Violence Against Women.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H30586A6F0A88450D85E0A95CF85FF511"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If gender segregation or gender-specific programming is necessary to the essential operation of a program, nothing in this paragraph shall prevent any such program or activity from consideration of an individual’s gender. In such circumstances, alternative reasonable accommodations are sufficient to meet the requirements of this paragraph.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC479753416834B6D944DE6673206136F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Discrimination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (4) of section 809(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3789d(c)) apply to violations of subparagraph (A).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H44D437C436CC49BD98B81DC211BF9CF2"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Construction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Nothing contained in this paragraph shall be construed, interpreted, or applied to supplant, displace, preempt, or otherwise diminish the responsibilities and liabilities under other State or Federal civil rights law, whether statutory or common.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4037ECAB11154D8088D1D09C61A2E4D5"><enum>(13)</enum><header>Compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An entity applying for funding under this title shall certify to the Office on Violence Against Women that the entity will comply with their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including taking reasonable steps to ensure meaningful access to its programs and activities by persons who are limited in their English proficiency, in order to avoid discrimination on the basis of national origin.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7BF6FD862E39418F80768EFC82F492E3"><enum>(14)</enum><header>Content of applications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All grant applications submitted for funding shall contain documentation in the text of the grant application and a line item in the budget that provides for language access to the services being provided or documentation about local demographics justifying why the budget does not address language access.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06C13E6562094BFEB081DF6F2984F6D0"><enum>(b)</enum><header>STOP grants</header> <paragraph id="H7A9B2D505067415694D20BEFE610E078"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Development of training</header><text>Section 2001(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg(b)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H2406922E1D2A4BB4A70AF5D0FE1D1F1A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (13), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of subparagraph (D);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H28BC0553C1F34C848F5E1D8C6A7CB9E0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (14), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA4A3267C27EB40829563E9F8E290CFCF"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding after paragraph (14) the following new paragraph:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54418EF3BF4F40759ED613AAB7C6027C" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HBBE1B49187E0418898B519F575FAC292"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the development and implementation of procedures, policies, or protocols and training within courts, prosecutors’ offices, and law enforcement agencies to ensure that agency personnel have received training on and are not encouraging, promoting or facilitating the violation of Section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367) and that agencies receiving funding are issuing certifications in U-visa and T-visa cases for victims applying for relief under Section 101(a)(15)(T) and (U) of Immigration and Nationality Act.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H02D549B7103E439FA2CB9FEBA63551A2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Funding priority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2001(d) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796gg(d)) is amended by inserting at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4D116F481084FC9AC7A58689ADCDAE4" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HF24BB65BE00B4913B7F80CF6D4FA9818"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority in funding shall be given to programs whose applications demonstrate that the applicant has or is willing to implement within 6 month after receipt of funding protocols, policies, or practices that—</text> <subparagraph id="H5E1039FF3E75416DAC151C9F95219E80"><enum>(A)</enum><text>ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 13166;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA96C2614E5884E95BAC9D7FF6C14F896"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that the agency does not violate, facilitate or encourage the violation of VAWA confidentiality as defined in section 387 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1367); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF6E94057171A473190AD81D8290AF790"><enum>(C)</enum><text>result in the agency issuing certifications for noncitizen victims applying for relief under sections 101(a)(15)(U) or 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act if the applicant agency is eligible to sign certifications in T- or U-visa cases.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC0C05E3EB225446AAE1D77606152CEE6"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grants To encourage arrest policies</header> <paragraph id="HFEF29BC394F64EC8A24FE94C49D0D29A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Grant authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2101(b) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3F24C261F6594047B19B14CB6CC9164D" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H6292C6E3F5D6447494B814E0E01F7BE2"><enum>(14)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To develop or strengthen policies, protocols and training for law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary in recognizing, detecting, investigating, and prosecuting instances of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking against immigrant victims, including the appropriate use of T and U visas (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15) (T) and (U)) and providing training on and are not encouraging, promoting or facilitating the violation of Section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1367).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE135D363D10F4DFB97214182B09F3444"><enum>(15)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To develop or strengthen policies, protocols, and training for law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary on language access under Executive Order No. 13166 65 Fed. Reg. 50, 121 (Aug. 16, 2000).</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF439BC45D7394EDA929DEEA77CEA4788"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 2101(c) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796hh(c)) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H759E0BD199444A84BEF7DB056F141B8B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA5B9812E2CBE47E0B4B60D1C9D65A579"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (5), by striking the period and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE7BB4C1B79334FFEA90A6DA025EFC623"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBEB35299D5404E658A743F011AB2FEFE" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H735299B7E61944A8A65A1E38E3C0347D"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Priority in funding shall be given to programs whose applications demonstrate that the applicant has or is willing to implement within 6 months after receipt of funding protocols, policies, or practices that—</text> <subparagraph id="H61E3D404957A44F2B5F431B3D36983C0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 13166;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8911E54A352842C0BDD1F02EFF3B6E83"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ensure that the agency does not violate, facilitate or encourage the violation of VAWA confidentiality as defined in section 387 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1367); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H902341E23856466CB843885FB5705037"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">result in the agency issuing certifications for noncitizen victims applying for relief under sections 101(a)(15)(U) or 101(a)(15)(T) of the Immigration and Nationality Act if the applicant agency is eligible to sign certifications in T- or U-visa cases.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H017A9E00C90C49529E28B6758F6A2614"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transitional housing assistance grants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 40299 of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13975) is amended in subsection (d)(2)(B) by—</text> <paragraph id="HA93C23209431403F92CEA03F9739A657"><enum>(1)</enum><text>inserting <quote>— (i)</quote> after <quote>provide assurances that</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0429C10E37024EFB9A77DD044B68B6AF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0356F7F9598A490D91F2A1C724F097B5" style="OLC"> <clause id="H2135AD89C4154AB79E53D69F061F7F26"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">applicants are able to prove eligibility for the housing program funded under this grant using any credible evidence (as defined in section 204(a)(1)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1)(J))); and</text> </clause><clause id="HBA90D59FCAA64B138460E25605B9BAFC"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the program serves underserved victims and is compliant with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Executive Order 13166 (65 Fed. Reg. 50, 121).</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDE4397BDC64B49A0B40F67E4322466A6"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Campus grants available for victims with limited English proficiency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 304 of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 14045b) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HE168346B0FA842FF94850BE02DB8DC95"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b)(4), by inserting <quote>and language access to such services</quote> after <quote>physiological counseling,</quote>;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC41C399CEEF646A2BE6BDB1DBAC63AFC"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (c)(2)(C), by inserting <quote>proportion, demographics, and language needs of international students,</quote> after <quote>demographics of the population,</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H14A5825AC98D4AB2BF859E3EC53C7CB3"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d)(1), by inserting <quote>translation,</quote> after <quote>technical,</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H804569A00FFA4F4ABE289154407596E9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header>VAWA unit adjudications</header> <subsection id="HF053B92E4BF6411F8D2999A5CE6F1103"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Transfer of all VAWA confidentiality and VAWA-Related cases to the VAWA unit</header><text>Section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text> <quoted-block id="H6174CF91472246A894924EC4FE3ADF0E" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H4D5D88FFA7504C1D9849C8308C0A7D66"><enum>(52)</enum><text>Applications under sections 101(a)(51), 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 106, section 216(c)(4), and parole for children of VAWA cancellation recipients and the full range of adjudications related to such cases including adjustments, work authorizations, parole, fax-back benefits authorizations, employment verification, and naturalization, for applicants and derivative beneficiaries shall be adjudicated at the VAWA Unit of Vermont Service Center.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H14A3154C8CE947BA8C6F67FE15B88F38"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header> <paragraph id="HC7944570BB604592B9AEA0E18BD8E929"><enum>(1)</enum><text>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Homeland Security such sums as may be necessary to provide for the Violence Against Women Act Unit at the Vermont Service Center of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services which shall be responsible for processing consistent with VAWA confidentiality requirements the full range of adjudications, adjustments, work authorizations, parole, fax-back benefits and employment verification, and naturalization, for applicants and derivative beneficiaries related to VAWA self-petitions (INA section 101(a)(51); T visas (INA section 101(a)(15)(T), U visas (INA section 101(a)(15)(U); battered spouse waivers (INA section 216(c)(4)); abused immigrant work authorizations (INA section 106) and parole for children of VAWA cancellation recipients (Public Law 103–222, reauthorized Public Laws 106–326, 108–193; 109–162; 109–164) and any other VAWA confidentiality protected matters. Nothing in this section shall preclude DHS placement at the VAWA Unit of other victim related adjudications. Subject the authority of immigration judges adjudicate adjustment of status applications from aliens in proceedings who have been granted VAWA self-petition, T visas or U visas, no official in the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Justice is authorized to adjudicate any matter related that is directed by this section to be determined by the VAWA Unit.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H11EA32494E9C40619BFCE53B381A0D0C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Department of Homeland Security shall include in its budget each year a specific line item describing funding included to support the VAWA Unit.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H23554F93F18C42A5A6AD96C602545ECC"><enum>503.</enum><header>Victims of Crime Act improvements</header> <subsection id="H81714007020B4E3D8B61D7B164C77BFA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Crime victim compensation</header><text>Section 1403(b)(4) of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10602(b)(4)) is amended by inserting <quote>or non-citizens of the United States</quote> after <quote>nonresidents of the State</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE0D25B5CC8A3405EA329E33B1E501901"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Crime victim assistance</header><text>Section 1404 of the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10603) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="HBE70A9A4C615471EA936FFF1EDA91840"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(2)—</text> <subparagraph id="H341D219D33504B33946925BC688F3456"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>spousal abuse,</quote> and inserting <quote> domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, elder abuse,</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6D21A1E4A43F40A2BD85CB1FDE2123E1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by inserting <quote>(i) are based on the definition of <term>underserved populations</term> as defined in section 40002(a) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13925(a)), and (ii)</quote> after <quote>implement this section that</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4DF7E716D9D541B7BE2596F52D10FC26"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as subparagraphs (D) and (E), respectively; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H00089ECD45E54F2680A1B96767C7AA41"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H0E32444D8CDE427C816504E8552CC274" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H1C1FF527BA9349E2968F3823FF89FD37"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensure that programs receiving funds are open to crime victims on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to language proficiency or alienage status.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H15D7E1F88F2545CC883004103AEEC7E9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(1)—</text> <subparagraph id="H33EBF4C8935142B1AA097263953B0C1C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H17980EBA71604C2BBA92A41D4B5BE7F0"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by moving subparagraph (F) two ems to the left, and by striking the period at the end of such subparagraph and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCC4489E9B2D04AF6BA166D3225187A27"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H36DF95E0079E43709372F0D94EDE3C25" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HA2BE73622A194DE096E7FCE7BBF02962"><enum>(G)</enum><text>does not discriminate against, and offers services and assistance to, victims who do not unreasonably refuse to provide assistance in a criminal investigation or prosecution. For purposes of this paragraph the definition of <quote>do not unreasonably refuse to provide assistance</quote> shall be the same as the used under section 245(m) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1255(m)).</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD88138FC8E4A46B297AEA4F52348CB1B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(1)—</text> <subparagraph id="H6452D5161C364E659AB709F6E5DD669E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>and</quote> after the semicolon;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9C8B765C06774938A6C6AFCCB74920B5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking <quote>victim service organizations</quote> and all that follows and inserting <quote>victim service organizations, legal services programs, and coalitions to improve outreach and services to victims of crime, including immigrant, limited English proficient, and underserved victims; and</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2285B3F1B5524661AC8E773D35D83C85"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:</text> <quoted-block id="H64CACBAC7E4D49F58644ACF7A2967100" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H621829FFF9104AB5A9889F8A5199AC02"><enum>(D)</enum><text>for improving language access to victim services and the civil, criminal, immigration, and family justice systems.</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0C45016E504E4E85B3A6E170C9A5C80D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph id="H0DA087284B4D4B9CB2272DD458E70DB5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="H5DAF2BC1E38D4EAFB5D83F059B47DFD3" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF00FBA5DF04B47CFB159C09CE7D714B6"><enum>(C)</enum><text>assistance in participating in criminal, civil, family, and immigration justice system proceedings relating to prevention of, obtaining relief from, escaping, ameliorating the effects of, or offering future protection against, victimization; and</text> </subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD4FFE8EEC98641A880001D5DB9F18A5B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (4), by inserting <quote>, and assistance to crime victims in obtaining protection orders and in obtaining immigration relief</quote> after <quote>of crime</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H44F9256C00D64DE1B5DF9C3D6BE0F727"><enum>504.</enum><header>Research on violence against women</header> <subsection id="H97409E14871F47DE984955A1A4D366E1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Each of the research grant programs listed in subsection (b) shall include as a purpose and permitted use of Federal funding research—</text> <paragraph id="H597FD2766A674EA4B4162F54F689A8A6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>on victimization by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, dating violence and elder abuse including dynamics;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4235B75D918049A29EAB3F225A8799C5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>intervention, impact, prevention, and effectiveness of—</text> <subparagraph id="H8D66423853654D599CDC878D94E4B2D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>victim services;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA963272C91224FEDA214F5EADBF73D67"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the civil and criminal justice system;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H354021218A0E4A72BF2D70B05A99CE8A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>health care;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H35E08A80BDB74AB6A0B263EC1E30422D"><enum>(D)</enum><text>mental health care;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5E261B500DFE400F865AA8E9BB61F2A6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>immigration relief,</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7F167AF4F5C94D32A99DF3DF1988BF78"><enum>(F)</enum><text>legal assistance; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4AA0CF66168D43CABC6436CB36FA1A6A"><enum>(G)</enum><text>other interventions,</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7D9DA91F9F8A48CE98C1DBCD7672ACB8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>outcomes for victims; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFCEE380B37CA46E59EF4974AD8F6645F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>victim’s access to services and protections, including the needs of underserved, immigrant and limited English proficient victims.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCEBD06342D074465B2076DD3E204A397"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application</header><text>Subsection (a) shall apply to research under the following:</text> <paragraph id="HB41DCEF27FBF4568AB57CAA21ACA8EA3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>National Institute of Justice</header><text>Section 202(c)(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3722).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA870E78262FE40619193E7F8CF6E77F7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Study by National Center for Injury Prevention and Control</header><text>Section 402(a) of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 280b–4(a)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H07D43DC257064866AA0FEED3A5BCDFE1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Interpersonal violence within families and among acquaintances</header><text>Section 393 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 280b–1a).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0685637E80244F119C51F159C1E13864"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Agency for healthcare research and quality—research, evaluations, and demonstration projects on health care for priority populations</header><text>Subparagraph (B) of section 901(c)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299(c)(1)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H86F8D3F15163460F8604BAD237FD0B2B"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Research on health disparities</header><text>Section 903 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299a–1).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HEF0F069648C24D03B8022433493F7270"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Substance abuse and mental health services administration—office for substance abuse prevention</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 515 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–21(b)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6D4D319EF4E84F269664ED89782D49EE"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Center for mental health services</header><text>Section 520 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290bb–31(b)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HCA1705A8E77444E48E2B70F478DCB16C"><enum>(8)</enum><header>National Institute of Drug Abuse</header><text>Subsection (b) of section 464L of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285o).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H128BCFAF962E4A31B7A2C44D96CA0F95"><enum>(9)</enum><header>National drug abuse research centers</header><text>Subparagraph (F) of section 464N of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285o–2(c)(2)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA35E1E2E1EE3494CBDF1E692F4CC1D27"><enum>(10)</enum><header>National Institute of Mental Health</header><text>Paragraph (2) of section 464R(e) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 285p(e)).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7713DE2172D64895AEC7487364DE9636"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Office of research on womens health</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (b) of section 486 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287d).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H94B6A510C6F74287859868B060E6A73E"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Office of research on womens health advisory committee</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (4) of section 486(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287d).</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Marriage Visa Protections </header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0EAEF5C914F942D594F003CA515E4134" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Protections for a fiancée or fiancé of a citizen</header> <subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9996E9CC8EA74949A926D64169CD3278"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text>Section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H298D6EC075BD49FE9924E232C38C9C1C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA5E20A47E76945A9BB089467EED66521"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>crime.</quote> and inserting <quote>crime described in paragraph (3)(B) and information on any permanent protection or restraining order issued against the petitioner related to any specified crime described in paragraph (3)(B)(i).</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H39ED2B867A164E398E48D34860EB4F3C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1C87124791A4A25A1C79C8FA77BBCD2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>a consular officer</quote> and inserting <quote>the Secretary of Homeland Security</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA21E96CC55E94C7B86D79FD9877E10E7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>the officer</quote> and inserting <quote>the Secretary</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1794CE066DB94A4C890D5FC14D3AAFF3"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(B)(i), by striking <quote>abuse, and stalking.</quote> and inserting <quote>abuse, stalking, or an attempt to commit any such crime.</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6663B6A4D41943B3AAD41536B8273655"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (r)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B3091191D9A4E03B5253DDAB222A970"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>crime.</quote> and inserting <quote>crime described in paragraph (5)(B) and information on any permanent protection or restraining order issued against the petitioner related to any specified crime described in subsection (5)(B)(i).</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF70F9682C5F54034B94D6C67D7671C06"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (4)(B)(ii) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1854DB66685D4630994FBD5C1CBFD739" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H01A4F1BD37164AE7A8D6ADB6BDEB1EC5" indent="up3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>To notify the beneficiary as required by clause (i), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide such notice to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the mailing to the beneficiary described in section 833(a)(5)(A)(i) of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (8 U.S.C. 1375a(a)(5)(A)(i)).</text> </clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H24EA5A6A6BBE444B89640AC482AD57A3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)(B)(i), by striking <quote>abuse, and stalking.</quote> and inserting <quote>abuse, stalking, or an attempt to commit any such crime.</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA97F92E891CC4BFAB387E30019F8CA22"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Provision of information to K nonimmigrants</header><text>Section 833 of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (8 U.S.C. 1375a) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H698AA885FA0B47FEB4404D8844440B5A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)(5)(A)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4AF6B786D1364AFB9471AE373D6255F1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in clause (iii)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA4FB75FFB85543B4A82906DAF6192F10"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>State any</quote> and inserting <quote>State, for inclusion in the mailing described in clause (i), any</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7F0F940DE74B4144BB97A4F615FA6302"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking the last sentence; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8660F221C79844F693940648386E6F53"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA39B0FD0C2E4821BC47135C1292192D" style="OLC"> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H354342B18A1E4CDBA3C7C37AA733B62A"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall conduct a background check of the National Crime Information Center’s Protection Order Database on each petitioner for a visa under subsection (d) or (r) of section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184). Any appropriate information obtained from such background check—</text> <subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7C7B22E94D94AB09AEF1999E300B5E3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>shall accompany the criminal background information provided by the Secretary of Homeland Security to the Secretary of State and shared by the Secretary of State with a beneficiary of a petition referred to in clause (iii); and</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07BEFB3FD4A943BFBF41F7FE2EB6E33E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>shall not be used or disclosed for any other purpose unless expressly authorized by law.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="HAB0A11AB64EA4A77A7F9124C94398D4B"><enum>(v)</enum><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall create a cover sheet or other mechanism to accompany the information required to be provided to an applicant for a visa under subsection (d) or (r) of section 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184) by clauses (i) through (iv) of this paragraph or by clauses (i) and (ii) of subsection (r)(4)(B) of such section 214, that calls to the applicant’s attention—</text> <subclause id="H416F3C8E436743D38E3350AF1AC7EF42"><enum>(I)</enum><text>whether the petitioner disclosed a protection order, a restraining order, or criminal history information on the visa petition;</text> </subclause><subclause id="HC7EA7FF747164D0A881E050A321CC1F9"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the criminal background information and information about any protection order obtained by the Secretary of Homeland Security regarding the petitioner in the course of adjudicating the petition; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="HF2106D88376C4170855FCE7009812D73"><enum>(III)</enum><text>whether the information the petitioner disclosed on the visa petition regarding any previous petitions filed under subsection (d) or (r) of such section 214 is consistent with the information in the multiple visa tracking database of the Department of Homeland Security, as described in subsection (r)(4)(A) of such section 214.</text> </subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4BE9949F11944A568BEBB00DBD53A9E0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking <quote>or</quote> after <quote>orders</quote> and inserting <quote>and</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F97487B59904CAC8D511F3323573F92"><enum>602.</enum><header>Regulation of international marriage brokers</header> <subsection id="HC43DA759494F45A18D3F7AE2B482EFF2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Implementation of the International Marriage Broker Act of 2005</header> <paragraph id="HB13A00A06D3F4032ADC0FD301997B51F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress finds the following:</text> <subparagraph id="H83BCBDE6B7D740EA83E62E5A4A035073"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The International Marriage Broker Act of 2005 (subtitle D of Public Law 109–162; 119 Stat. 3066) has not been fully implemented with regard to investigating and prosecuting violations of the law, and for other purposes.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1635DA17D78444C899912DA2D8FD93DF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Six years after Congress enacted the International Marriage Broker Act of 2005 to regulate the activities of the hundreds of for-profit international marriage brokers operating in the United States, the Attorney General has not determined which component of the Department of Justice will investigate and prosecute violations of such Act.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HBD2052623F3447EB93E207C4945060A6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress a report that includes the following:</text> <subparagraph id="H947FB80B83E84F0F8A24A6EBC39113BF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The name of the component of the Department of Justice responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of the International Marriage Broker Act of 2005 (subtitle D of Public Law 109–162; 119 Stat. 3066) and the amendments made by this Act.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBF4EF0748CA34BAA9F09DB16CA186739"><enum>(B)</enum><text>A description of the policies and procedures of the Attorney General for consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State in investigating and prosecuting such violations.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2C38DA64F4F24F5A8638E1F15B6ADB8E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical Correction</header><text>Section 833(a)(2)(H) of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (8 U.S.C. 1375a(a)(2)(H)) is amended by striking <quote>Federal and State sex offender public registries</quote> and inserting <quote>the National Sex Offender Public Website</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H063DE87E1B1A43838B28FEAF277898C1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulation of international marriage brokers</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 833(d) of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (8 U.S.C. 1375a(d)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA2D7CE8C9944671A14F2BFD16C1813A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBADFE3AB5BAE43C585EF5CEE2A10B139" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H157ED133058E4E5AA29776539C2D2DC9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Prohibition on marketing of or to children</header> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC77696458E4A4EE39EC2CF23333FB47C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An international marriage broker shall not provide any individual or entity with the personal contact information, photograph, or general information about the background or interests of any individual under the age of 18.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H37565FE6E30E4DF584EB99F802D90420"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Compliance</header><text>To comply with the requirements of subparagraph (A), an international marriage broker shall—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CC4A78938334D939DEB10087D39F644"><enum>(i)</enum><text>obtain a valid copy of each foreign national client’s birth certificate or other proof of age document issued by an appropriate government entity;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8D1238415BB649BCAB14575D3C5328B0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>indicate on such certificate or document the date it was received by the international marriage broker;</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0FC1FAB71AA4094A4F07583726C13F2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>retain the original of such certificate or document for 7 years after such date of receipt; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HECB3B726634F4527B8BD32FC8E13AE20"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>produce such certificate or document upon request to an appropriate authority charged with the enforcement of this paragraph.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; </after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB1EE024DA50A42D38132E9DD4AB04632"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6AFA07DACB8D476B9B70708BCDDF0660"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(i)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H370B6740F9C64CCC83CDF86800ABF3EA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">registries</header-in-text>.—</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="clause" style="OLC">website</header-in-text>.—</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE2D39E09C2C34DC6AD9E48D0B1AC26C2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Registry or State sex offender public registry,</quote> and inserting <quote>Website,</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBD95D3C159084DA9BA6D2765BEDFB26E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking <quote>permanent civil</quote> and inserting <quote>final</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6C947C5C516464898BB7CD04616238F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii)—</text> <clause id="HA52A3CA2C9FC45A08699964E5126E8F8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or endangerment, elder abuse or neglect or exploitation</quote> after <quote>child abuse or neglect</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause id="HC2F8B96C93634CB18C85E0B18C1738B4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or stalking.</quote> and inserting <quote>stalking, or an attempt to commit any such crime.</quote>;</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B4A9CD4EE704862AB560430AEB26D9E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE8D8F58DA268456AB4B748525F94420E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)—</text> <clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC99A32EC35246A68DACDAF9855B800C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in clause (i), by striking <quote>Registry, or of the relevant State sex offender public registry for any State not yet participating in the National Sex Offender Public Registry, in which the United States client has resided during the previous 20 years,</quote> and inserting <quote>Website</quote>; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H580E59C13E064D0691AB95D75C20174B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in clause (iii)(II), by striking <quote>background information collected by the international marriage broker under paragraph (2)(B);</quote> and inserting <quote>signed certification and accompanying documentation or attestation regarding the background information collected under paragraph (2)(B);</quote>; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDB0AB9F7C07F4FD38794341F3BBBB008"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking subparagraph (C);</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE959351436414C718CAE70B79290ED39"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA964B6238F7445C5B09E0A550067D0A1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking <quote>A penalty may be imposed under clause (i) by the Attorney General only</quote> and inserting <quote>At the discretion of the Attorney General, a penalty may be imposed under clause (i) either by a Federal judge, or by the Attorney General</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7D3C3B95C40148868013B632D1E208EC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8D782224083D4CF3BFECA7B3D1B4F51D" style="OLC"> <subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA889E10D2AD4C9B98DE86068641BEF1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Federal criminal penalties</header> <clause id="HD643D8E3EC354D4EAF020EF39E2FCA34"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Failure of international marriage brokers to comply with obligations</header><text>Except as provided in clause (ii), an international marriage broker that, in circumstances in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States—</text> <subclause id="H941A14B37E604E699F41ECBFF49F3CC2"><enum>(I)</enum><text>except as provided in subclause (II), violates (or attempts to violate) paragraph (1), (2), (3), or (4) shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both; or</text> </subclause><subclause id="H379B059E79B043A490C28CEB66E5F4E6"><enum>(II)</enum><text>knowingly violates or attempts to violate paragraphs (1), (2), (3), or (4) shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H19EFD0481E5B4436B949AEABB00EB1A5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Misuse of information</header><text>A person who knowingly discloses, uses, or causes to be used any information obtained by an international marriage broker as a result of a requirement under paragraph (2) or (3) for any purpose other than the disclosures required under paragraph (3) shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both.</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H09CAF00DEBC7439EBD484A623C7A89DF"><enum>(iii)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Fraudulent failures of United States clients to make required self-disclosures</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A person who knowingly and with intent to defraud another person outside the United States in order to recruit, solicit, entice, or induce that other person into entering a dating or matrimonial relationship, makes false or fraudulent representations regarding the disclosures described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of subsection (d)(2)(B), including by failing to make any such disclosures, shall be fined in accordance with title 18, United States Code, imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both.</text> </clause><clause id="H070D3A82A00145C48854909AE4822687"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Relationship to other penalties</header><text>The penalties provided in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) are in addition to any other civil or criminal liability under Federal or State law to which a person may be subject for the misuse of information, including misuse to threaten, intimidate, or harass any individual.</text> </clause><clause id="H5815FE1C43D8415F89094DAB41498210"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Construction</header><text>Nothing in this paragraph or paragraph (3) or (4) may be construed to prevent the disclosure of information to law enforcement or pursuant to a court order.</text> </clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8A393CAB72A34B69B62396252D54FBE1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>including equitable remedies.</quote>;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB09FA91A42B5459AB5CEA553D6240900"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (7) and (8), respectively; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C767951B45A47009FC3570C726BF938"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1A873F02C374010B5CFD657C28B17A1" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HF66B10B715BA4ED183AE1F53C7F67423"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Enforcement</header> <subparagraph id="H64692CA0F2044E3AB071070563F5B8DB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>The Attorney General shall be responsible for the enforcement of the provisions of this section, including the prosecution of civil and criminal penalties provided for by this section.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4BD51ACA351041ED9BC9AC03E38D6E62"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>The Attorney General shall consult with the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women of the Department of Justice to develop policies and public education designed to promote enforcement of this section.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H631025E277CB4CB28EEBE384BD2A1D0F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>GAO study and report</header><text>Section 833(f) of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (8 U.S.C. 1375a(f)) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H95FD2A29398A4D3188BBE80053EA8AC8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the subsection heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">study and report</header-in-text>.—</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">studies and reports</header-in-text>.—</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA89FCDBF107144C7982D748752215E70"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H20880B45CEAF42F1B62431EC6C486482" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H78BD8D3055484824BC36671D2261948B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Continuing impact study and report</header> <subparagraph id="HCD34C5EAC9AB49569F942221C7485F91"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Comptroller General shall conduct a study on the continuing impact of the implementation of this section and of section of 214 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184) on the process for granting K nonimmigrant visas, including specifically a study of the items described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0CDF0544815043A69758523849A258F5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012</short-title>, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report setting forth the results of the study conducted under subparagraph (A).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6351C3CB68D347AAB06517584E5E8EA2"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Data collection</header><text>The Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of State shall collect and maintain the data necessary for the Comptroller General to conduct the study required by paragraph (1)(A).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VII</enum><header>Sexual abuse in prisons</header> <section id="H64F6647788094F4684D71632F4E8A745"><enum>701.</enum><header>Sexual abuse in custodial settings</header> <subsection id="HCFCF8C3F86AC40B4B93F1C06DDF081B1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Suits by prisoners</header><text>Section 7(e) of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (42 U.S.C. 1997e(e)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>or the commission of a sexual act (as defined in section 2246 of title 18, United States Code)</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H059DC741190C4A65B17AC27C6B10C3F1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>United States as defendant</header><text>Section 1346(b)(2) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HBEFB580CF08943ECAACFAA25D94056D7" style="OLC"> <quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="section">or the commission of a sexual act (as defined in section 2246 of title 18)</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HAE1DD4DCC4B14868AEBCD55C19EA6525"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Adoption and effect of national standards</header><text>Section 8 of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 15607) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H28C242255BA2496CB881B55923090362"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (e); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H065539B1D5DC4F1582B0F3B2D6E86B2B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (b) the following:</text> <quoted-block id="H0019EB561EB94352AF1EBBD81FCBB693" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HBE4CCC5A478C402EAF5C078E38A1AB88"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Applicability to detention facilities operated by the department of homeland security</header> <paragraph id="HE450D41DAC0242F5AA4A4709D952732F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall publish a final rule adopting national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of rape and sexual assault in facilities that maintain custody of aliens detained for a violation of the immigrations laws of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF3B42A7117634C36AD2B417122E18C8A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The standards adopted under paragraph (1) shall apply to detention facilities operated by the Department of Homeland Security and to detention facilities operated under contract with the Department.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD2DC04FF0E1047A2BC2D6A1D62DE69FE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Compliance</header><text>The Secretary of Homeland Security shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HCFBA0847676248ACBEA6855AE6D4CCAA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>assess compliance with the standards adopted under paragraph (1) on a regular basis; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2D6E7DE90C8E4B589A7F224035F8C5BD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>include the results of the assessments in performance evaluations of facilities completed by the Department of Homeland Security.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2BAE1C286BE34C14ADE6D78AB00BD4AD"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In adopting standards under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall give due consideration to the recommended national standards provided by the Commission under section 7(e).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H80190FC8900C4532B84346BAE9B3AEB3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>As used in this section, the term <term>detention facilities operated under contract with the Department</term> includes, but is not limited to, contract detention facilities and detention facilities operated through an intergovernmental service agreement with the Department of Homeland Security.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H56401619B4044717B93529C823592A35"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Applicability to custodial facilities operated by the department of health and human services</header> <paragraph id="HCBC7CF85ECAA4DA79B8B3660DC127618"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall publish a final rule adopting national standards for the detection, prevention, reduction, and punishment of rape and sexual assault in facilities that maintain custody of unaccompanied alien children (as defined in section 462(g) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 279(g))).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB86F643A111E4BB69F71CAC0F35C77CB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicability</header><text>The standards adopted under paragraph (1) shall apply to facilities operated by the Department of Health and Human Services and to facilities operated under contract with the Department.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2B2C698FCCEC4F9CA494FB8909F702F9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Compliance</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HAA8F338A9DB2439F9F2D802D8F1C3EEC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>assess compliance with the standards adopted under paragraph (1) on a regular basis; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB15001433C14EDABA61236EB237FBB3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>include the results of the assessments in performance evaluations of facilities completed by the Department of Health and Human Services.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCBFCD037F1A74FA1B44C0591FEA84F64"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In adopting standards under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall give due consideration to the recommended national standards provided by the Commission under section 7(e).</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection></section><enum>VIII</enum><header>Data collection</header> <section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9102E20650B54E3290C41747234268EE"><enum>801.</enum><header>Annual report on immigration applications made by victims of abuse</header> <subsection id="H827FDA318F4A452A8EF4C1B1842D84C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report that includes the following:</text> <paragraph id="HB1B969C2ACD74AA6AB7176BFCF6784D0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The number of aliens who—</text> <subparagraph id="HF3A59DC0446246E99D5DC0D913300C21"><enum>(A)</enum><text>submitted an application for nonimmigrant status under paragraph (15)(T)(i), (15)(U)(i), or (51) of section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) during the preceding fiscal year;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H87FB062942F54E88A2AFA0704241D443"><enum>(B)</enum><text>were granted such nonimmigrant status during such fiscal year; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDC3072B8E4E54D0382AD87737387188B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>were denied such nonimmigrant status during such fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF5693F5CC2834EF989BDF368DE786BC3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The mean amount of time and median amount of time to adjudicate an application for such nonimmigrant status during such fiscal year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFA2842039AC24DEAAAC5AEEB2DF82F86"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The mean amount of time and median amount of time between the receipt of an application for such nonimmigrant status and the issuance of work authorization to an eligible applicant during the preceding fiscal year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4EA184B3A64E4AB6A402671CB67EE63A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The number of aliens granted continued presence in the United States under section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(3)) during the preceding fiscal year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H68F4ADD6B6524747989519224122CC34"><enum>(5)</enum><text>A description of any actions being taken to reduce the adjudication and processing time, while ensuring the safe and competent processing, of an application described in paragraph (1) or a request for continued presence referred to in paragraph (4).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H73D057E17B864A79B2B37E0DEC43C211"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The numbers of adjudicators and managers working in the VAWA Unit, the length each has served on the unit, and the years of experience each has on domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and crime victimization issues.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA8A323C56D43438690BB09C07DA81D02"><enum>(7)</enum><text>A description of the training VAWA Unit adjudicators and managers received that fiscal year on domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and crime victimization and VAWA confidentiality issues.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HEE2130E1CC404EC19BF34EEF7D76122D"><enum>(8)</enum><text>A description of the training Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Boarder Patrol enforcement agents and Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement trial attorneys and chief counsel mandatorily receive and optionally receive on—</text> <subparagraph id="H18E7A1C922AA4CEA8B2FC7F94332B679"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">VAWA confidentiality;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC72AE52E52834CA795A9764668061A9A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>screening to identify immigrants eligible for—</text> <clause id="HDEA60C59C28C4C9DA9D64E00716E99C7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>humanitarian release;</text> </clause><clause id="HDD9F02ACBE6745A0AE8D07662E683B62"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion; or</text> </clause><clause id="H320588E9C5FF44B98AE2021319538E6E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>U visas, T visas, and VAWA self-petitions or other forms of VAWA confidentiality protected relief;</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H7333F439E788488CA8D3BCF56DFACD56"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Department of Homeland Security broadcast message on VAWA confidentiality and the Central Index System’s new 384 class of admission code;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H04C1E04D9CA54DC587CCC107E47FE0C4"><enum>(D)</enum><text>U-visa certification and T-visa endorsement by Department of Homeland Security officials and State law enforcement; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H85E6790507424A60A9A91DEB806FC396"><enum>(E)</enum><text>collaboration with local law enforcement and victim services programs on VAWA self-petitioning, VAWA cancellation of removal, U-visa and T-visa cases.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3C9DBB6ED73B49E8AD466A73D0D06FF0"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number of VAWA confidentiality violation complaints filed including—</text> <subparagraph id="H65E3FBD2A86549A887191CFD0DD76DEC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the data on the types of complaints filed;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD08C5AA526904E199C42417E33C17EFF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>each division in which the employee works against whom the complaint was filed;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H034E23BF8CA34AE3BE2476C22AC638B1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the outcome, including any action taken on the complaint;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C5A04BA860A40F783FD6563FAA7FD7B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the mean and median time between receipt of the complaint and culmination of action on the complaint; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H87DF0859CAF94BF4949626428F3ADF4B"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the report shall not include any personally identifying information about the complainant, the person against whom the complaint was filed, or any witnesses.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD034017A77524FE9A2E9E38BF5BFB4EB"><enum>(10)</enum><text>The degree of compliance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, as amended by this Act, achieved by each detention facility operated by the Department of Homeland Security and each detention facility operated under contract with the Department during the preceding fiscal year.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H16F1F53F5BB949A09099A396DF391D85"><enum>(11)</enum><text>The number of reports alleging sexual abuse filed at each detention facility operated by the Department of Homeland Security and each detention facility operated under contract with the Department during the preceding fiscal year, including an indication of the number of reports sustained at each facility.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1D9FF90F446D46519E4320D104E7CD35"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Reporting requirement</header><text>Not later than December 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Legal Services Corporation shall submit a report to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary identifying the following:</text> <paragraph id="H8428CFD4FEA34D8284E26FCDAC68F9EC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Steps taken to consult with and include programs serving victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, population specific programs, culturally specific programs, and representatives from underserved populations in community consultations used to determine what services each Legal Services Corporation funded program provides.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6AFFB8A844FE4958BD92534A98738FE9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Steps taken by the Corporation to implement and provide training to programs funded by the Corporation on the provisions of section 104 of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3A13B2E5E19E438586E80A388E6B8421"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The number and proportion of programs receiving funding from the Corporation that have implemented policies and procedures (including those for intake and screening) designed to ensure that victims described in section 104 of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 are able to access legal assistance from the program.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7446D99678624587948342A367A3BF24"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Study</header><text>The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study—</text> <paragraph id="H65EF539457FD4A88AD3FB004418EC771"><enum>(1)</enum><text>on the impact of section 384 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA) (8 U.S.C. 1367) and section 239(e)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229(e)(1)) and the VAWA confidentiality protections generally, including in particular—</text> <subparagraph id="HC9CB272E871F46A58B52450B7E2EC2F2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the annual number of aliens receiving certification subject to 239(e)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229(e)(1)); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H55D866CC1FCA4EE48278284C557CC2D9"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the annual number of aliens described insection 384 of IIRAIRA and cases contained in the computerized section 384 confidentiality system who—</text> <clause id="H1865A49426FA41D882395E52D00D2BDB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>have been issued notices to appear by the Department of Homeland Security;</text> </clause><clause id="H042FD1AA79A24BC2A4804B017D7340C6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>have pending cases in immigration proceedings;</text> </clause><clause id="HAEB016E2C0824294BCC704F8505BB47E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>have orders of removal issued against them;</text> </clause><clause id="H1B89486950E04273949C2FFADDBCBAA3"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>have been issued immigration detainers; or</text> </clause><clause id="HADCEFFF9E1204A5D8623C328BE602F2C"><enum>(v)</enum><text>have been placed in detention by the Department of Homeland Security;</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H42B74651688F49BB91A9F986E6F474FC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>that examines the extent to which the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, and local law enforcement agencies participating in the program under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, have implemented policies, practices, or protocols that—</text> <subparagraph id="H20DC31EB4C0F4C8B953FC41647273D7F"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">screen for victimization, eligibility for humanitarian release, and eligibility for relief under sections 101(a)(15)(T), 101(a)(15)(U), 101(a)(27)(J), 101(a)(51), 106, 240A(b)(2), 244(a)(3) (as in effect on March 31, 1997) of the Immigration and Nationality Act or section 107(b)(1)(E)(i)(II)(bb) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 710);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC7FF9E1D779046CCBB79F9E75A927AFB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide potential victims with information about the forms of immigration relief listed in subparagraph (A);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H201891CE72894823BDAD4841E65B82AE"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">result in T- and U-visa certification; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA606607F5D36478DAF6E9A7C35490798"><enum>(D)</enum><text>are designed to ensure that immigrant victims are not subjected to immigration enforcement related to the perpetrator’s actions or communications;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2C687F9D83B34EC087F9BA2D11090F5B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that reports on the number of section 298(g) jurisdictions that have memoranda of understanding with the Secretary of Homeland Security requiring practices that result in T- and U-visa certifications and compliance with VAWA confidentiality protections by officers and departments participating in the section 287(g) program; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4A0BC26DF7174F7DA59FED47E9804616"><enum>(4)</enum><text>that reports on the proportion of Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies that—</text> <subparagraph id="HEC873F8547C94C0480324DD13F6948FC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>have designated an individual to sign U-visa certifications;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD78E16C2F8BF447B826F95A394FCC2FC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>have U-visa certification policies or protocols; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H33C617115B004FF2A840E12922DE2236"><enum>(C)</enum><text>have received training in—</text> <clause id="H8D63EB75ADB54F27928857E8EE123DBC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>U-visa certification; and</text> </clause><clause id="HC2A127E5237D41C984934950D82D05B5"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>T-visa endorsement.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HAF3384F25F534DF99B47D13819FC2801"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Report</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives a report setting forth the results of the study conducted under subsection (b).</text> </subsection><subsection id="H48C80AE52BB64CADAF9FC34A0BFC3B11"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H3D2950610F3047988432978AA215B7DA"><enum>802.</enum><header>Data collection and reporting</header> <subsection id="H621687E34AEB4FFF976EC87E9FBB35C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Annual report to Congress</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than December 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the House Committee on the Judiciary a report stating—</text> <paragraph id="HC3D04042C6414C56A0E1E814CB4BE677"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of persons (primary applicants and derivative beneficiaries, total and by State) who have applied for, been granted, or been denied a visa or a petition, adjustment of status, work authorization, parole, naturalization or otherwise provided status under paragraphs (15)(T)(i), (15)(U)(i), (27)(J), and (51) of section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)) and section 106 of such Act, during the preceding fiscal year;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD9F256C52E7646A7A47C7720C41C13FB"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of requests for further evidence issued for each case type described in subparagraph (1) during the preceding fiscal year;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD0D03D054FE4449D913AC0953D925F14"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the mean and median time in which it takes to adjudicate applications for relief, and adjustments of status submitted under subparagraph (T)(i) or (U)(i), of section 101(a)(15), section 101(a)(27)(J), section 101(a)(51), and section 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101) during the preceding fiscal year;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HD9025A98E2864EE79902A485612ACFE9"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the mean and median time between the receipt of applications for visas submitted under subparagraph (T) or (U) of section 101(a)(15), section 101(a)(27)(J), or section 101(a)(51) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101) and the issuance of work authorization to eligible applicants during the preceding fiscal year;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1AD71C64A19848DCAC5697CF92FE778C"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of victims granted continued presence in the United States under section 107(c)(3) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 during the preceding fiscal year; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H61B7C8A68ED2442D8C6BA3C104E2D150"><enum>(6)</enum><text>any efforts being taken to reduce the adjudication and processing time, while ensuring the safe and competent processing of the applications described in subsections (a), (b), (c), and (d) of this section.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section>