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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 629 (Introduced in House) — To provide protections against violence against immigrant women, and for other purposes. · Sec. 203

Sec. 203. Protections for victims of criminal activity

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Section 101(a)(15)(U)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(iii)) is amended— by inserting stalking; dating violence; abuse; endangerment; or exploitation of a person who is a child, elderly, or disabled; after perjury; ; and by adding at the end the following: the terms domestic violence , sexual assault , dating violence , and stalking have the meaning given such terms in the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 13925(a)); . Section 101(a)(15)(T)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(t) ) is amended— in subclause
(I)by inserting , incapacitated siblings, after under such clause ; and in subclause
(III)by inserting , incapacitated sibling, after parent . Section 101(a)(15)(U)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U)(ii) ) is amended— in subclause (I)— by inserting or incapacitated after under 21 years of age ; by inserting son or daughter, after children, ; and by inserting any children of the siblings, after under such clause ; and in subclause (II)— by inserting under 21 years of age on the date on which such alien applied for status under such clause after children ; and by inserting , and any children of the children after such alien . Section 204(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1154(a)(1) ) is amended— in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting or incapacitated sons or daughters after alien’s children ; in subparagraph (A)(iii), in the matter preceding item (aa), by inserting or incapacitated son or daughter after child ; in subparagraph (A)(iii)(I)(bb), by striking or a child inserting , an incapacitated son or daughter of the alien, or a child ; in subparagraph (A)(iv), by inserting , or incapacitated son or daughter, after child the first and second places it appears; in subparagraph (A)(vi), by striking or child and inserting , incapacitated son or daughter, or child ; in subparagraph (B)(ii)(I)(bb), by inserting , an incapacitated son or daughter of the alien, or before a child of the alien ; and in subparagraph (B)(iii), by inserting incapacitated son or daughter after child the first, second, and third places it appears. Section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(U) ) shall be amended— in clause (i)— in subclause (I), by inserting after the alien the following: or a child of the alien ; in subclause (II), by striking an alien before the word child and inserting a ; and in subclause (III), by striking an alien before the word child and inserting a ; and in clause (ii), by inserting after subclause
(II)the following: 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. . Section 214(p)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1184(p)(2) ) is amended— in subparagraph (A), by striking The number and inserting Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the number ; and by adding at the end the following: 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. . 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. Section 214(p) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1184(p) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 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. 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. . Section 214(p)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1154(p) ) is amended by inserting Certifications may be signed by the head of the agency or any agency staff member designated by such agency head to sign certifications. before The certification may also . 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 administrator of crime victim assistance under the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 ( after 42 U.S.C. 10602 ), prosecutor, judge, each place it appears.
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