Congress Must Support an Updated Registry Date
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Congress Must Support an Updated Immigration Registry Date
We need your help to get Members of Congress to support an update to the Immigration Registry cutoff date. Currently, people that have been continuously present in the U.S. since before January 1, 1972 and meet other requirements, can be granted "registry" for lawful permanent resident status at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security. This registry was first codified in law in 1929 and has been modified various times by Congress. The most recent change was by President Reagan's Administration in 1986, bringing the registry date up to 1972.
On March 9th, 2023, Representative Zoe Lofgren and 47 other Representatives introduced H.R. 1511, which would will create a rolling registry date, allowing immigrants that have been in the U.S. for at least seven years and meet other requirements to file an application for registry. This simple update to existing Section 249 of the Immigration and Nationality Act would allow up to 8.5 million people to obtain residency and get on a pathway to Citizenship. You can find a video review here of the updated registry bill H.R. 1511 here. You can review a summary of the bill here.
We need our Senators to introduce this bill to the Senate!
Please take action to get Congress to support an update to the immigration registry date by taking the following actions:
Write your Members of Congress to ask them to sign on and support H.R. 1511 to update the immigration registry date.
Write your Senators to ask them to introduce this bill in the Senate.
Call your Members of Congress to ask them to sign on and support H.R. 1511 to update the immigration registry date and to introduce this bill in the Senate. You can find your Members of Congress phone numbers by entering your address in here.
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El Congreso debe apoyar una actualización a la fecha de registro de inmigración
¡Necesitamos que nuestros Senadores presentar este proyecto de ley al Senado!