Americans First Immigration Act

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Overhauls immigration system, prioritizing skilled workers, ending the Diversity Lottery, and limiting family visas.

This bill would create a new points-based system for most worker visas, favoring immigrants with high salaries, advanced degrees, and English proficiency. It would also end the Diversity Lottery program and significantly limit family-based immigration categories. Additionally, it would require non-permanent resident college students to pay out-of-state tuition and mandate new attestations for all immigrants.

What Would Change

Today, the U.S. immigration system includes a Diversity Lottery, various family-based categories (including parents of U.S. citizens), and employment-based visas that do not use a points system. After this bill, the Diversity Lottery would end, family-based immigration would be significantly narrowed, and most worker visas would be granted based on a points system that prioritizes specific skills, education, and salary levels. Additionally, non-permanent resident college students would be required to pay out-of-state tuition at public institutions.

Key Provisions

Establishes a new points-based system for most worker visas, favoring immigrants with high salaries, advanced degrees, STEM fields, English skills, and younger ages.
Ends the Diversity Lottery visa program, which currently provides a pathway to legal residency for people from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the U.S.
Limits family-based immigration by removing parents of U.S. citizens from immediate relative status and capping other categories to spouses and minor children of permanent residents.
Requires employers hiring foreign workers to prove they first tried to hire U.S. workers and did not lay off U.S. workers for similar jobs, with penalties up to $50,000 for violations.
Requires all immigrants to sign an attestation upholding American values and rejecting certain harmful practices like genocide, religious persecution, honor killings, and female genital mutilation.

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Americans First Immigration Act

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