HR 5888 109th Congress House Immigration Administrative fees Administrative remedies Adoption Department of Homeland Security Economics and Public Finance Families Government Operations and Politics Immigrants Law Orphans

Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act

Introduced: July 25, 2006 See on congress.gov

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Jul 25, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Jul 25, 2006

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any "covered individual" (an individual whose Application for Advanced Processing of Orphan Petition was approved on or after January 1, 2005) may file a Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate Relative for at least two years after the approval of the individual's application.

Prohibits the Secretary from requiring: (1) a covered individual who files a timely petition to pay any fees or complete any requirements already paid or completed in conjunction with the application or contingent on the amount of time that elapses between the application's approval and the petition's filing; and (2) any person who was a covered individual on this Act's enactment date from paying any fee for the timely filing of a petition unless that fee was required at the time the application was approved.

What's happening now July 25, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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