Immigration Document Delivery Accountability Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5979 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5979

To require that any document pertaining to the immigration status of an 
   individual that, in the determination of the Secretary, is to be 
  carried or delivered by mail, by the United States Postal Service, 
           shall include a trackable accountability measure.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 2025

   Mr. Self introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require that any document pertaining to the immigration status of an 
   individual that, in the determination of the Secretary, is to be 
  carried or delivered by mail, by the United States Postal Service, 
           shall include a trackable accountability measure.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Immigration Document Delivery 
Accountability Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, by rule, require that any 
document pertaining to the immigration status of an individual that, in 
the determination of the Secretary, is to be carried or delivered by 
mail, by the United States Postal Service, shall include a trackable 
accountability measure that is--
            (1) a Postal Service barcode (or successive service or 
        marking) that enables tracking of each individual document 
        mailed. This accountability measure could be either a tracking 
        number or
            (2) a requirement for a signature of the recipient on any 
        mail including such document sent from any United States 
        Citizenship and Immigration Services facility.
This section does not apply in the case of a document presented to an 
individual in person.
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