Sex Offender Visa Loophole Elimination Act of 2007
Latest action · Feb 2, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 9, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Sex Offender Visa Loophole Elimination Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit a convicted U.S.-citizen sex offender from filing a family-based immigration petition.
Defines "sex offense" and "specified offense against a minor."
Prohibits approval of a fiance/fiancee or waiting nonimmigrant spouse visa petition filed by a convicted sex offender.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 9, 2007Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Aliens
- Child abuse
- Child labor
- Child pornography
- Child sexual abuse
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Computer crimes
- Conspiracy
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Families
- Forced labor
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- Kidnapping
- Married people
- Parents
- Pornography
- Prostitution
- Rape
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex crimes
- Sex offenders
- Slavery
- Visas
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced in House
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