Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
This private bill grants Roberto Carlos Lopez eligibility for an immigrant visa or adjustment to lawful permanent resident status, waives grounds of removal or inadmissibility reflected in DHS/State records, and requires rescission of any removal orders.
It conditions filing within two years, reduces the applicable immigrant visa number by one, and bars certain family-preference immigration benefits for his parents, brothers, and sisters.
Low substantive controversy but private, single-person relief historically has low legislative priority and faces procedural hurdles.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly tailored substantive policy change (private relief) that is legally specific and integrates cleanly with the Immigration and Nationality Act, providing explicit statutory overrides, deadlines, and agency directives to effect the relief requested for a named individual.
Left/center accept narrow humanitarian relief; right opposes waiver of enforcement
Left/center accept narrow humanitarian relief; right opposes waiver of enforcement
Likely supportive if the bill remedies an unjust or humanitarian situation for an individual.
Views congressional relief for a named individual as appropriate in narrow, documented hardship cases but notes family-reunification limits.
Generally supportive if the case is compelling and narrowly tailored.
Sees this as standard congressional relief but emphasizes procedural fairness, limited precedent, and basic vetting.
Likely opposed because the bill waives statutory grounds and rescinds removal orders, seen as undermining immigration enforcement and incentives for compliance.
Views congressional exceptions skeptically.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Low substantive controversy but private, single-person relief historically has low legislative priority and faces procedural hurdles.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left/center accept narrow humanitarian relief; right opposes waiver of enforcement
Low substantive controversy but private, single-person relief historically has low legislative priority and faces procedural hurdles.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a narrowly tailored substantive policy change (private relief) that is legally specific and integrates cleanly with the Immigration and Nationality Act, providing…
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