Temporary Family Visitation Act
Sponsored By: Representative Peters
Introduced
Summary
Creates a new family-purpose nonimmigrant visa that lets relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents enter the United States for short family visits. It pairs a 90-day cap with sponsor financial promises, travel medical insurance, and limits on changing status while in the U.S.
Show full summary
- Relatives and households: Relatives may visit for social, major life, or religious events for up to 90 days per calendar year. Visitors must carry short-term international medical insurance and sign a sworn statement that they will depart when their visit ends.
- Petitioners and sponsors: U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents must submit a declaration of financial support. Petitioners are barred from sponsoring if a previously sponsored relative overstayed unless they certify extraordinary circumstances, and false statements carry criminal penalties.
- Immigration process and status: The visa restricts change-of-status from this category. People awaiting immigrant visas may be admitted under the family-purpose rules but those admissions are subject to existing immigrant-number limits and are not counted for adjustment-of-status purposes.
Your PRIA Score
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Sign up for a PRIA Policy Scan to see your personalized alignment score for this bill and every other piece of legislation we track. We analyze your financial profile against policy provisions to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
90-day stays and petition limits
This bill would limit family-purpose B visa stays to 90 days per calendar year. It would say those stays do not count as being "admitted" for changing to permanent status while in the United States and would restrict change-of-status eligibility for this group. The bill would bar a petitioner from re-petitioning for the same relative if that relative was admitted under the family-purpose visa and later overstayed, unless the petitioner explains extraordinary circumstances. DHS could, at its discretion, waive the usual inadmissibility bar for overstays when the overstay was caused by extraordinary circumstances.
New family visitor B visa
This bill would add a new family-purpose subcategory to the B visitor visa. Relatives listed include spouse, child, son, daughter, grandchild, parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, niece, and nephew. The bill would also let people already classified as immigrants and waiting for an available immigrant visa enter temporarily under this family-purpose B visa if they otherwise meet admission rules.
Sponsor requirements and travel insurance
This bill would require the petitioner or an additional sponsor to file a declaration of financial support with DHS for a family-purpose visitor. The arriving relative would need to sign a sworn statement that they will leave at the end of the visit and must have short-term travel medical insurance or equivalent international coverage for the stay. If a petitioner previously submitted a support declaration for the same relative, the petitioner must certify that the relative did not overstay or explain extraordinary circumstances, and false statements could trigger criminal penalties under 18 U.S.C. 1001. The bill would also confirm that immigration officers keep discretion to refuse admission when criteria are not met and that the regular B-2 tourist visa remains available for family pleasure travel.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Peters
CA • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Bice, Stephanie I. [R-OK-5]
OK • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Himes
CT • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Salazar
FL • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Swalwell
CA • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Foxx, Virginia [R-NC-5]
NC • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Min, Dave [D-CA-47]
CA • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Ansari, Yassamin [D-AZ-3]
AZ • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Sherman, Brad [D-CA-32]
CA • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Mills
FL • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]
NY • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Lee (FL)
FL • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Walkinshaw, James R. [D-VA-11]
VA • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3]
IA • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
CA • D
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Evans (CO)
CO • R
Sponsored 12/11/2025
Haridopolos
FL • R
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 12/16/2025
Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]
NE • R
Sponsored 1/7/2026
Rep. Correa, J. Luis [D-CA-46]
CA • D
Sponsored 1/7/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
View on Congress.gov