A bill to permit an interested U.S. citizen to request a consular or immigration officer to review the presumed immigrant status determined for an alien by such officer.
Latest action. Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Provides that if a consular officer makes a determination under the Immigration and Nationality Act that an alien is to be deemed an immigrant by reason of his failure to overcome the presumption contained in the Act, the officer, upon the written request of any citizen of the United States, shall submit to such citizen a written statement: (1) describing the evidence concerning the alien which was presented to the officer before he made such determination, (2) setting forth the reasons for his determination, and (3) a description of the general character of the evidence needed to overcome the presumption that the alien, or such citizen of the United States, thereafter submits to the officer evidence of the general character needed to overcome the presumption that the alien is an immigrant, the officer shall review all of the evidence then available to him bearing on the question of the alien's immigrant status. Requires the officer to submit to the citizen a written statement containing the basis for his determination respecting the sufficiency of the evidence if he determines that such evidence is not sufficient to overcome the presumption.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on January 30, 1973. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
4 steps remain before this bill could become law.
The record's latest action, on January 30, 1973: Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
- Clearing the committees it was referred to, and being scheduled for a floor vote
- Passage by the House
- Passage by the Senate
- The President's signature. If the President vetoes it, two-thirds of both chambers must vote to override.
How likely is it to become law?
Civibrief does not forecast outcomes and this page has no opinion about this one. What the record supports is a base rate, which is a fact about the whole pile, not a prediction about this measure.
In the 93rd Congress (1973-74), 651 of the 23,396 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 2.8 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
This one is not there yet: 4 steps are still outstanding, listed above.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
CHARLES WIGGINS (R-CA) introduced it on January 30, 1973. No cosponsors are recorded.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on January 30, 1973, 19581 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 19581 days ago, on January 30, 1973.
Measures do not carry over. Anything the 93rd Congress has not finished by January 3, 1975 dies when the term ends, and has to be introduced again from the start in the next Congress.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseIn committee, no floor vote yet
- SenateAwaits House passage
- PresidentAwaits both chambers