REPAIR Act of 2007
Latest action · Nov 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.
- IntroducedOct 12, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Relocation Empowerment and Placement Assistance for Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007 or REPAIR Act of 2007 - Waives visa and related fees relating to special immigrant status for Afghan or Iraqi nationals who worked with the U.S. Chief of Mission or the U.S. Armed Forces as interpreters or translators.
Waives numerical limitations with respect to such special immigrants.
Expands such category to include persons who: (1) performed such services with a U.S. contractor; or (2) performed other services.
Makes additional U.S. military officers eligible to recommend such nationals for special immigrant status.
Directs the Secretary of State (Secretary) to make every effort to ensure that aliens applying for special immigrant status and visas, and aliens applying for refugee status and visas, may apply and interview within Iraq in Baghdad and Irbil through in-country processing mechanisms.
Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to jointly establish a program to offer federal employment to relocated Iraqi special immigrants as translators, interpreters, and cultural awareness instructors.
States that such special immigrants shall be eligible for the same resettlement assistance as refugees.
Directs the Secretary to provide such special immigrants with computer literacy and vocational training, English language training, and employment and counseling services.
Expresses the sense Congress that the United States should provide an orientation into life in the United States for Iraqi special immigrants and should make all reasonable efforts to provide temporary safe haven for alien applicants who are in imminent danger in Iraq.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 12, 2007 to Nov 9, 2007, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Oct 12, 2007 |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | Original | Oct 12, 2007 |
| D-KS | Dennis Moore | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| R-MI | Fred Upton | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| R-MD | Wayne T. Gilchrest | Oct 18, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Joseph Crowley | Oct 22, 2007 | |
| R-WA | David G. Reichert | Nov 7, 2007 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Nov 9, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- Oct 12, 2007Introduced in House
- Oct 12, 2007Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Immigration.
- Administrative fees
- Afghanistan
- Alien labor
- Aliens
- Armed forces abroad
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Computer literacy
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Counseling
- Department of Defense
- Department of State
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- English language
- Government contractors
- Government Operations and Politics
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing finance
- Immigrants
- Immigration
- International Affairs
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military operations
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Officer personnel
- Refugees
- Relocation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Social work
- South Asia
- Translating and interpreting
- Visas
- Vocational and technical education
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 12, 2007Introduced in House
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