My amendment is a compromise effort to fix this oversight. The amendment makes sons and daughters and siblings who have filed the petitions before March 13. 1996. qualified. It is a grandfather amendment giving those legal immigrants currently in the line a chance to be reunited with their families. How? They would be eligible to use any unused family- or employmentbased visas on an annual basis. It does not raise immigration numbers. It simply allows sons and daughters and siblings the chance to immigrate on the spaceavailable basis using any leftover quotas. Let me repeat again: It does not raise immigration numbers. It does not jeopardize the overall bill or any priorities. These individuals have followed our immigration laws impatiently waiting for many. many years. These honest immigrants deserve a chance to be with their famiilies. Some have already made financial and personal arrangements by putting their homes on the market and preparing for resettling in America. Otherwise. we slam the door in the face of this lawabiding immigrant. This retroactive denial is unfair. downright unAmerican. My amendment is a responsible way to fix this injustice.
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