# 119-s-3419: Reuniting Families Act

119-s-3419, Reuniting Families Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] (D-HI); status introduced (as of 2026-08-11).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-3419
- Congress: 119
- Title: Reuniting Families Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-12-10
- Sponsor: Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] (D-HI)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Immigration
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-08-11

## Summary

**Expanded family-based immigration and formal recognition of "permanent partners."** This bill would widen who counts as immediate relatives, change visa allocations and country limits, create new visa-recapture rules, ease bars and waivers, and speed refugee family reunification so more families can join in the United States.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] (D-IL), 2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Bigger family visa numbers and limits: benefit, medium. This bill would raise and recast family and diversity visa limits. It would raise the Diversity Visa cap to 80,000 and increase per-country caps to 20% and 5%. It would set larger family-preference allocations (127,200; 80,640 plus unused; 80,640; 191,520) and let some long-waiting beneficiaries (p…
- Protections while petitions and visas pending: benefit, medium. This bill would stop removal of certain people while their immigrant or other listed petitions or applications are pending or on appeal. It would let some people whose qualifying U.S. relative died file a petition within two years and seek parole or reopen visas without fees. The bill would also ex…
- Recognize permanent partners and families: benefit, medium. This bill would create a legal definition of “permanent partner” and treat permanent partners like spouses across immigration law. It would let permanent partners get nonimmigrant and conditional permanent resident status and apply spouse-based naturalization rules to permanent partners. The bill w…
- Refugee family reunification and processing: benefit, medium. This bill would expand and speed refugee family reunification through a Priority 3 process. More people (refugees, asylees, certain special immigrants, and citizens/LPRs admitted in those statuses) could file Priority 3 AORs within five years. Refugee spouses, partners, children, and some parents c…
- Work and age protections for dependents: benefit, medium. This bill would let certain H-dependent spouses or children over 16 get work authorization with an employment endorsement or permit. It would protect dependent children from 'aging out' by measuring age from the petition or labor certification filing date and let some children keep extended nonimmi…
- More family and employment visas: benefit, low. This bill would raise the yearly totals for immigrant visas. It would set family-sponsored visas at 480,000 plus two yearly adjustments. It would set employment-based visas at 140,000 plus two yearly adjustments. One adjustment would add any prior-year shortfall. The other adjustment would recaptur…
- New inadmissibility rules and waivers: mixed, medium. This bill would replace some old mandatory bars with new multi-year inadmissibility periods for removals and departures (5, 10, 20 years or permanent for aggravated felonies). It would add broad discretionary waivers for humanitarian or family-unity reasons and a youth exception for misrepresenting…

## Related bills

- 119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026
- 119-s-5071: Children's Safe Welcome Act of 2026
- 119-s-5283: Momnibus Act
- 119-s-4504: Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2026
- 119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-s-2823: FAMILY Act

## Sources
- [119-s-3419 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3419)

## Related
- [119-s-5066: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5066)
- [119-s-5071: Children's Safe Welcome Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5071)
- [119-s-5283: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5283)
- [119-s-4504: Full-Service Community School Expansion Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4504)
- [119-s-3990: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3990)
- [119-s-2823: FAMILY Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2823)
- [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3419 (as of 2026-08-11).