End the U Visa Abuse Act

To: The Honorable Jim Jordan, Chairman, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
The Honorable Chuck Grassley, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The U visa, created by Congress in 2000, was meant to assist federal and local law enforcement in investigating serious crimes against vulnerable victims. Congress authorized 10,000 visas per year — a deliberate statutory cap reflecting the program's narrow purpose. Today, that cap is a fiction. Filings have exceeded the cap every year since 2009. In FY 2024 alone, USCIS received more than 70,000 petitions — over seven times the statutory limit. The backlog now exceeds 421,000 cases, a quarter-century wait at the issuance ceiling.

Beyond scale, the program has become a documented vehicle for fraud. Federal indictments, USCIS investigations, GAO reports, and reporting from The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Daily Mail catalogue staged crimes, fabricated allegations, and criminal aliens using the certification process to escape removal. The structural problem is irrecoverable: a program that grants the accuser a path to citizenship while denying the accused even formal adjudication is, by statutory design, an incentive to lie. The accused has no right to face evidence, no right to challenge approvals, and no neutral forum in which to do so.

The End U Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8628), introduced by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) on April 30, 2026, repeals the U visa classification under INA § 101(a)(15)(U). It is the cleanest and most decisive remedy. The program's perverse incentives cannot be corrected by administrative tweak — they are written into the statute. Repeal restores integrity to the immigration system and protects the U.S. citizens it was meant to serve from a program that has been weaponized against them.

We, the undersigned, respectfully petition Congress to pass the End U Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8628) and eliminate the U visa program.

— Signed by the citizens whose names appear at uvisafraud.com/petition