S.Amdt. 1656

SA 1656. Mr. WHITEHOUSE submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R.
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military
activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of section 1227, before the end quote and final
period, insert the following:
``(17) Report informing the processing time for
applicants.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2016, the Secretary of State, in consultation
with the Secretary of Homeland Security, to shall submit a
report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, the
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of
the Senate, the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives,
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the
House of Representatives that includes--
``(A) the number of applicants in the `administrative
processing' phase of the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa
application process, broken down by month, during the most
recent 12-month period;
``(B) the shortest and longest period that an application
described in subparagraph (A) has been in such phase; and
``(C) a description of the steps that the Department of
State and the Department of Homeland Security have taken to
reduce the length of the administrative processing phase,
while maintaining adequate security review and screening of
such applications.
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