5. Department of Homeland Security · Major · Needs Congress
End chain migration and limit family immigration to the nuclear family
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“the diversity visa lottery should be repealed, chain migration should be ended while focusing on the nuclear family, and the existing employment visa program should be replaced with a system to award visas only to the "best and brightest."”
What has happened
- Not started
The Nuclear Family Priority Act (H.R. 2705 / S. 1328, introduced 2025-04-08) would do what the Mandate asks and has been referred to the Judiciary committees without action. No family-preference change is in Public Law 119-21 or any Federal Register document in the window.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative search, 2026-08-26: titles of bills in Congress, from congress.gov, for “chain migration”, “nuclear family”, “family-sponsored”, “family reunification”, “immediate relative” (the “RAISE Act of 2025” hits are unrelated wage bills); presidential documents in the Federal Register and White House presidential actions for family-preference orders (none); Public Law 119-21 enrolled text (fees only).
- The diversity-visa and employment-visa limbs of this sentence are tracked as their own Recommendations.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- chain migration (extended family-based immigration)
- ID
- 332