Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the final rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security titled Increase of the Automatic Extension Period of Employment Authorization and Documentation for Certain Employment Authorization Document Renewal Applicants and published on December 13, 2024. This rule makes permanent the increase of the automatic extension period from 180 days to 540 days for expiring employment authorization documents. The extension applies to eligible noncitizens who renew these authorizations on time.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S.J. Res. 8 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. J. RES. 8

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Homeland 
 Security relating to ``Increase of the Automatic Extension Period of 
   Employment Authorization and Documentation for Certain Employment 
              Authorization Document Renewal Applicants''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 30, 2025

   Mr. Kennedy (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the 
 following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Homeland 
 Security relating to ``Increase of the Automatic Extension Period of 
   Employment Authorization and Documentation for Certain Employment 
              Authorization Document Renewal Applicants''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
rule submitted by the Department of Homeland Security relating to 
``Increase of the Automatic Extension Period of Employment 
Authorization and Documentation for Certain Employment Authorization 
Document Renewal Applicants''(89 Fed. Reg. 101208 (December 13, 2024)), 
and such rule shall have no force or effect.
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