[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1899 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1899

 To permit aliens seeking asylum to be eligible for employment in the 
                 United States and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 30, 2015

   Mr. King introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To permit aliens seeking asylum to be eligible for employment in the 
                 United States and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Asylum Seeker Work Authorization Act 
of 2015''.

SEC. 2. EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZATION FOR ALIENS SEEKING ASYLUM.

    Paragraph (2) of section 208(d) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1158(d)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) Employment authorization.--
                    ``(A) Eligibility.--The Secretary of Homeland 
                Security shall authorize employment for an applicant 
                for asylum who is not in detention and whose 
                application for asylum has not been determined 
                frivolous.
                    ``(B) Application.--An applicant for asylum who is 
                not otherwise eligible for employment authorization 
                shall not be granted such authorization prior to 30 
                days after the date of filing of the application for 
                asylum.
                    ``(C) Term.--Employment authorization for an 
                applicant for asylum--
                            ``(i) shall be for a period of 1 year; and
                            ``(ii) shall be renewable for additional 1-
                        year periods for the entire continuous period 
                        necessary to adjudicate the applicant's asylum 
                        claim, including administrative or judicial 
                        review.''.
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