[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4145 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4145

 To increase the number of aliens who may be issued visas or otherwise 
  provided status as nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(U) of the 
   Immigration and Nationality Act for a fiscal year, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 26, 2017

  Ms. Brownley of California (for herself, Ms. Meng, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. 
    Frankel of Florida, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
   Carbajal, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Napolitano, Mrs. Torres, Ms. Wasserman 
 Schultz, Mr. Polis, Mr. Takano, Mr. Schiff, and Ms. Rosen) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase the number of aliens who may be issued visas or otherwise 
  provided status as nonimmigrants under section 101(a)(15)(U) of the 
   Immigration and Nationality Act for a fiscal year, 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 ``Protect Victims of Crime Act''.

SEC. 2. INCREASE IN ANNUAL VISA CAP FOR U-VISAS.

    Section 214(p)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(p)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``10,000'' and inserting 
``40,000''.
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