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Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
The Homeland Security Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on November 19, 2025. Comments closed on December 19, 2025.
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What the agency says
DHS proposes to rescind the 2022 public charge ground of inadmissibility regulations. The 2022 regulations are not the best implementation of the statute, inconsistent with congressional intent, unduly restrictive, and hamper DHS's ability to make accurate, precise, and reliable determinations of whether certain aliens are likely at any time to become a public charge. Rescission would restore broader discretion to evaluate all pertinent facts and align with long-standing policy that aliens in the United States should be self-reliant and government benefits should not incentivize immigration. DHS also proposes to address the breach and cancellation of public charge bonds.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-20278
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking
- Agency
- Homeland Security Department
- Published
- November 19, 2025
- Comments due
- December 19, 2025
- Dates
- NPRM comment period: Written comments on the NPRM must be submitted on or before December 19, 2025. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will accept comments prior to midnight eastern time at the end of that day.
- Docket
- CIS No. 2836-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2025-0304
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 1615-AD06
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 8 CFR 103; 8 CFR 212
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Aliens; Authority delegations (Government agencies); Fees; Freedom of information; Immigration; Passports and visas; Privacy; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Surety bonds
- Pages
- 57
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