“The most absurd immigration program ever conceived.”
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It was supposed to be a program to aid victims of crime.
But the “U Visa,” or the “U non-immigrant Status” visa has become a breeding ground for “fraud,” a new Republican-sponsored bill seeking to end the immigration program contends.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the “End U Visa Abuse Act” Thursday, saying that the U visa program has become “a magnet for fraud, allowing illegal aliens to game the system, avoid deportation, and secure work permits they were never meant to have in the first place,” according to a story by The Daily Wire.
“This broken program undermines the rule of law and encourages further illegal immigration by allowing immigration lawbreakers to claim they are crime victims to potentially qualify for the visa,” Roy told The Daily Wire. “Alleged victimization should not be a basis for securing a green card — it’s time we end the fraud-ridden U visa program once and for all.”
At first, U.S. authorities started extending U visas in 2000 “for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,” according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
So far about 400,000 petitions for U visas are awaiting to be approved, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The United States caps yearly approvals at 10,000, which doesn’t include the spouses, children, or parents who the primary applicant can sponsor.
H-1B FRAUD@CarlaHSands details abuse of H-1B visa program and EB-2 visa category pathways is hurting U.S. workers, explaining that fake degrees and fraudulent credentials are helping foreign applicants secure jobs while American STEM graduates are being overlooked.… pic.twitter.com/bXjPXt4sZl
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) April 29, 2026
One major caveat with the program is that the reported crime by the applicant doesn’t need to have produced any arrests, charges, formal investigation, prosecution, or conviction, as USCIS states on its website in its instructions to law enforcement signing off on an alleged victim’s petition.
Nevertheless, while they wait for the results of their application, immigrants can avoid deportation, which is put on hold while a decision is unresolved. That’s a massive incentive, leaving the program vulnerable to abuse, Roy’s bill argues.
Managing Attorney of Codias Law Cody Brown, who represents American citizens who are victims of immigration fraud, called the U visa “the most absurd immigration program ever conceived.”
“The federal government hands illegal aliens — and their entire extended families — a path to U.S. citizenship simply for accusing an American of a crime,” Brown told The Daily Wire. “No investigation, no prosecution, no conviction required.”
“The accused citizen gets no notice, no hearing, and no right to defend themselves. Worse: federal law actually forbids USCIS from denying the visa based solely on the accused citizen’s evidence,” he said.
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