S. 3144 119th Congress Senate

Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2025

Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a veterans visa program to permit veterans who have been removed from the United States to re… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a veterans visa program to permit veterans who have been removed from the United States to return as immigrants, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 6, 2025 Introduced by: Tammy Duckworth Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov

Immigration

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Nov 6, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Nov 6, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Related & companion bills 1

Bill text 1 version

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Judiciary Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 4

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

Defense, Dept of (DOD)
4 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
4 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
4 filings
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
4 filings
SENATE
4 filings
Small Business Administration (SBA)
4 filings
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
4 filings
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
4 filings

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Cosponsors 8

Kelly, Mark

Arizona · Dec 2, 2025

Fetterman, John

Pennsylvania · Nov 7, 2025

Blumenthal, Richard

Connecticut · Nov 6, 2025

Gallego, Ruben

Arizona · Nov 6, 2025

Hirono, Mazie K.

Hawaii · Nov 6, 2025

Kim, Andy

New Jersey · Nov 6, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3144: Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3144/

MLA

"S. 3144: Veterans Visa and Protection Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3144/.

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S. 3144, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-3144/.

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