# 119-hr-8586: Americans First Immigration Act

119-hr-8586, Americans First Immigration Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1] (R-AL); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8586
- Congress: 119
- Title: Americans First Immigration Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-29
- Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1] (R-AL)
- Cosponsors: 8
- Policy area: Immigration
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-17

## Summary

**This bill would create a new federal points-based immigrant visa system** and layer it with strict employer attestations and "American values" pledges for applicants. It also ends the Diversity Visa lottery and limits certain higher-education benefits for non‑permanent residents.

## Cosponsors (8)

- Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3] (R-TX), 2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6] (R-WI), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Hunt, Wesley [R-TX-38] (R-TX), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Nehls, Troy E. [R-TX-22] (R-TX), 2026-04-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-41] (R-CA), 2026-04-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Jack, Brian [R-GA-3] (R-GA), 2026-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fuller, Clay [R-GA-14] (R-GA), 2026-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6] (R-VA), 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- New employer rules for immigrant hires: benefit, medium. If enacted, employers offering jobs to points-based immigrants would have to sign detailed attestations before making a bona fide job offer. Employers would need to show they ran good-faith recruitment, list U.S. applicants and reasons they were not hired, and promise not to lay off similar U.S. wo…
- Change to EB-5 investor law: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would repeal Section 107 of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022. That statutory subsection would be removed from the EB-5 investor program framework. This change affects people and projects that use the EB-5 investor rules.
- New points-based green card rules: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would replace old employment categories with a new points-based green card system. Petitions would need evidence of at least 16 points, an English score at the 5th decile or higher, and the applicant must be age 18–51 on the filing date. A job offer would generally have to pay…
- Family visa limits and child age rule: mixed, medium. If enacted, 75% of visas under section 203(a) each year would go to spouses and children of lawful permanent residents without the old numerical limit. The yearly total of nuclear family-sponsored visas would equal 87,934 minus a computed number tied to certain parole and adjustment counts. The bil…
- End Diversity Visa, add religious visas: mixed, low. If enacted, the Diversity Visa lottery would end. The visas that formerly went to the lottery would be moved to religious-worker immigrant visas, set at 3,000 per year. No new Diversity Visa petitions could be filed after enactment, though certain pending petitions would be adjusted and some pre-en…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act
- 119-hr-987: Fair Access to Banking Act
- 119-hr-7651: Chloe Cole Act of 2026
- 119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act
- 119-hr-569: Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-8586 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8586)

## Related
- [119-hr-1628: 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1628)
- [119-hr-1502: North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1502)
- [119-hr-987: Fair Access to Banking Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-987)
- [119-hr-7651: Chloe Cole Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7651)
- [119-hr-425: Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-425)
- [119-hr-569: Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-569)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8586 (as of 2026-10-17).