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HR 628 110th 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: January 22, 2007 See on congress.gov
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Mar 1, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Jan 22, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 22, 2007
Introduced in House
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 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 July 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 March 1, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

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Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 12
All 12 Democratic 3 Republican 9
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Wilson, Joe
South Carolina · May 1, 2007
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Jordan, Jim
Ohio · Mar 23, 2007
 R
Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Mar 23, 2007
 R
Walberg, Tim
Michigan · Mar 20, 2007
 R
Blackburn, Marsha
Tennessee · Mar 9, 2007
 R
Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Mar 1, 2007
 R
Foxx, Virginia
North Carolina · Mar 1, 2007
 R
Moran, Jerry
Kansas · Mar 1, 2007
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Van Hollen, Chris
Maryland · Feb 27, 2007
 R
Calvert, Ken
California · Feb 14, 2007
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Hirono, Mazie K.
Hawaii · Feb 8, 2007
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Smith, Adam
Washington · Jan 22, 2007
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 628: Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-628/
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"H.R. 628: Helping Families Adopt Orphans Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-628/.
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H.R. 628, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-628/.
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