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This bill, the Protecting Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence Act, aims to provide immigration status and relief for certain battered spouses and children who are admitted as "derivative aliens" (accompanying or following to join a principal alien). The key provisions of the bill are: 1) Amending the Immigration and Nationality Act to include "abused derivative aliens" as a new category of nonimmigrant status. 2) Allowing the Secretary of Homeland Security to grant admission or extend the period of admission for abused derivative aliens for up to 3 years, renewable, and provide them with employment authorization. 3) Enabling the Secretary to adjust the status of abused derivative aliens to lawful permanent residence if they are admissible or their continued presence in the U.S. is justified on humanitarian, family unity, or public interest grounds, and the principal alien's status would have allowed for eventual adjustment. 4) Specifying that termination of the relationship with the principal alien will not affect the status of the abused derivative alien if the battery or cruelty was a central reason for the relationship's end.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/260/all-info