This is the text of the Battered Spouse Waiver that was published in Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Immigration Task Force of the House Committee on Education and Labor. This document also contains the portions of the hearing on the full bill that include testimony in support of the Battered Spouse Waiver and make up part of the Battered Spouse Waiver’s legislative history.
Publisher: House of Representatives
[pdf] Battered Spouse Waiver Statute Text (March 1990) (+)
This is the text of the Battered Spouse Waiver that was published in Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Immigration Task Force of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
[pdf] Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments Hearing (May 20, 1992) (+)
Hearings on the Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments Act of 1992 that includes statements from members of the House of Representatives on the need for creation of the Battered Spouse Waiver, a discussion with questions and answers among members of the House Judiciary Committee about the Battered Spouse Waiver, and the full record of testimony provided and statements submitted regarding reforms needed that the Battered Spouse Waiver addressed. This legislative history address both the Battered Spouse Waiver and the need for reforms that became VAWA’s any credible evidence rules.
[pdf] IIRAIRA Legislative History Conference Report (September 24, 1996) (+)
Includes preservation of VAWA self-petitioning, creation of VAWA cancellation of removal, creating VAWA confidentiality requirements, and exempting battered immigrants from deeming (see pp 32, 49, 108-109, 129-130, 139, 150 for statutory text and pp 208, 214, 231, and 238 for legislative history). Included battered spouse waiver, VAWA self-petitioners and VAWA suspension of deportation in VAWA confidentiality protections. IIRAIRA is the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
[pdf] Statement of Lelsye Orloff and Ellen Lawton, Ayuda and William Tamayo, Asian Law Caucus, Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments of 1992, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (May 20, 1992) (+)
Legislative history of the Battered spouse waiver amendments included in VAWA 1994 and creation of the VAWA any credible evidence rules. Statement of Lelsye Orloff and Ellen Lawton, Ayuda and William Tamayo, Asian Law Caucus, Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments of 1992, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (May 20, 1992)
[pdf] Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments of 1992, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (May 20, 1992) (+)
This statement is included in the legislative history of the battered spouse waiver. It is included in Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments of 1992, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives (May 20, 1992)
[pdf] HR REP 101-723 Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Immigration Act of 1990 (September 19, 1990) (+)
House Report accompanying HR 4300 includes legislative history on the Battered Spouse Waiver (Section 301) and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (321).
[pdf] Interlineated HR 5331 Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2012 (May 7, 2012, Interlineation June 5, 2021) (+)
This document is an interlineated version of The Violence Against Immigrant Women Act of 2012, which was introduced by Representative Jan Schakowsky on May 7, 2012 in the 112th Congress, 2nd Session, HR 5331. HR 5331 contains a myriad of legislative provisions that, if enacted as law, would dramatically improve legal protections for immigrant women and children who have been victims of domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, child abandonment, child neglect or a range of other violent crimes committed against them in the United States. This interlineated version of HR 5331 is marked up with strike-throughs. The text that is crossed out in red indicates the amendments that are no longer needed, because they have already been passed—either in law or through policy—in the years since this bill was first introduced in 2012.