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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 1525 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law, and for other purposes. · Sec. 102

Sec. 102. Protection against processing delays

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Chapter 1 of title IV ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 note) is amended by adding at the end the following: In the case of an application initially to grant a benefit under this Act (other than an application for naturalization) that otherwise would be granted only after a determination that the beneficiary of the application is a child (such as classification as an immediate relative under section 201(b)(2)(A)(i)), if the application is neither approved nor denied (on procedural or substantive grounds) during the 90-day period beginning on the date of the filing of the application, the beneficiary shall be considered to be a child for all purposes related to the receipt of the benefit if the beneficiary was a child on the last day of such 90-day period, and the beneficiary shall not otherwise be prejudiced with respect to such determination by such delay, and shall be considered to be a child under this Act for all purposes related to such application.
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(a)shall remain in effect until the termination of the 1-year period beginning on the date on which the application described in such paragraph is approved. . The table of contents is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 407 the following: Sec. 408. Age-out protection for children. . Section 101(b)(1)(E)(i) ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(E)(i) ) is amended by striking a child adopted while under the age of sixteen years and inserting a child, under the age of 16 when adoption proceedings were initiated, . Section 101(b)(1)(E)(ii)(III) (8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(E)(ii)(III)) is amended by striking adopted while under the age of 18 years and inserting under the age of 18 when adoption proceedings were initiated .
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