[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3797]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1656. Mr. WHITEHOUSE submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of section 1227, before the end quote and final 
     period, insert the following:
       ``(17) Report informing the processing time for 
     applicants.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2016, the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to shall submit a 
     report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of 
     the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, 
     the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
     House of Representatives that includes--
       ``(A) the number of applicants in the `administrative 
     processing' phase of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa 
     application process, broken down by month, during the most 
     recent 12-month period;
       ``(B) the shortest and longest period that an application 
     described in subparagraph (A) has been in such phase; and
       ``(C) a description of the steps that the Department of 
     State and the Department of Homeland Security have taken to 
     reduce the length of the administrative processing phase, 
     while maintaining adequate security review and screening of 
     such applications.
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