To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow certain alien veterans to be paroled into the United States to receive health care furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
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Latest Action · November 9, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The HOPE Act would allow the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily admit certain non-citizen veterans into the United States to receive medical care through the Veterans Affairs system. To qualify, these individuals must be military veterans who were previously removed from or voluntarily departed the country and are now seeking VA health services. The legislation specifically bars individuals convicted of violent crimes or crimes endangering national security where they served at least five years in prison from using this provision. The temporary parole would be granted on a case-by-case basis at the Secretary of Homeland Security's discretion and would not count as formal admission to the United States. The bill does not specify funding amounts or implementation timelines beyond requiring eligible veterans to return to their previous status once their medical care needs are addressed.
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