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119TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION S. 2468
To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render available to certain long-term residents of the United States the benefit under that section.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 28, 2025
Mr. P ADILLA (for himself, Mr. D URBIN, Mr. S CHATZ, Mrs. M URRAY, Mr.
MURPHY, Mr. S ANDERS, Ms. W ARREN, Mr. M ARKEY, Ms. D UCKWORTH, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. L UJA´ N, and Mr. S CHIFF) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL
To amend section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to render available to certain long-term residents
of the United States the benefit under that section.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Renewing Immigration 4
Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929’’. 5
SEC. 2. REGISTRY. 6
(a) I N GENERAL.—Section 249 of the Immigration 7
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1259) is amended— 8
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(1) in the section header, by striking ‘‘ EN-1
TERED THE UNITED STATES PRIOR TO JULY 1 , 1924 2
OR JANUARY 1 , 1972’’; and inserting ‘‘ ARE LONG - 3
TERM RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES ’’; and 4
(2) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-5
lows: 6
‘‘(a) entered the United States at least 7 years 7
before the application date;’’. 8
(b) E FFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 9
this section shall take effect 60 days after the date of the 10 enactment of this Act. 11
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