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H.R. 3548: Keeping Our Promise Act

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H.R. 3548: Keeping Our Promise Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-05-25 · Immigration · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-05-25 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Keeping Our Promise Act

Plain summary

Keeping Our Promise Act This bill authorizes issuing visas to certain individuals who were previously refused a diversity immigrant visa or admission into the United States because of certain executive orders or the COVID-19 public health emergency. (Diversity immigrant visas are available to eligible immigrants from countries with relatively low rates of immigration to the United States.) Specifically, this bill applies to individuals who were refused such a visa solely due to certain executive orders from 2017 to 2020, including orders which suspended the entry of individuals from certain countries. The bill also applies to diversity visa applicants who, because of the COVID-19 emergency, were (1) unable to receive a visa interview despite requesting one, or (2) unable to be admitted into the United States despite being approved for a visa. The Department of State must notify each individual covered under this bill of the individual's visa eligibility. To retain eligibility, an individual must respond to the State Department's notice within one year of the notice. An individual may also lose eligibility if the State Department determines that the applicant fails to meet certain requirements. The bill also relaxes certain annual numerical limits for individuals obtaining a visa under this bill. An individual who was a child when initially selected for a visa shall be treated as a child for the purposes of a visa application under this bill.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Keeping Our Promise Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15] · 130 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Sara Jacobs (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Nikema Williams (D-GA), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Mike Levin (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Raul Ruiz (D-CA), Sylvia R. Garcia (D-TX), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Norma J. Torres (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and 70 more.

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15] reported raising $7.2 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong117-hr3548 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117