END CHAIN MIGRATION
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Rep. Phil Gingrey
Chain Migration refers to the endless and often-snowballing chains of foreign nationals who are allowed to immigrate because the law allows citizens and lawful permanent residents to bring in their extended, non-nuclear family members. It is the primary mechanism that has caused legal immigration in this country to quadruple from about 250,000 per year in the 1950s and 1960s to more than one million a year since 1990.
The Nuclear Priority Act (H.R.692), introduced by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) would end chain migration as recommended by the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1995.
Rep. Gingrey's bill would:
- eliminate the extended family visa categories (e.g., siblings, married sons and daughters of citizens, etc.);
- in a change from previous versions, eliminate the parents category and instead create a renewable 5-year visa class for parents of U.S. citizens;
- require U.S. sons and daughters to provide satisfactory proof that they can financially support their immigrant parents and include proof of health care coverage for the parents while they are residing in the United States;
- would reduce the annual number of family-sponsored immigrant visas by 111,800.
Another key element to Rep. Gingrey's bill is that immigrant parents residing in the United States through the renewable 5-year visa would not be eligible to work in the United States.
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