Stop CCP VISAs Act of 2025
Current understanding
HR2147, the Stop CCP VISAs Act of 2025, proposes restricting U.S. visa issuance to individuals affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. The bill has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and has not advanced beyond referral. Practical effect if enacted: CCP-affiliated applicants (scope of affiliation TBD by bill text) would face visa ineligibility; status is introduced, pre-committee-markup.
Evidence log
- 2025-05-06 — Economic Espionage Prevention Act: cross-connection with economic-espionage-prevention-act-visa-sanctions: Both restrict entry of individuals or entities tied to foreign adversary state activities. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-11 — SHIELD Against CCP Act: cross-connection with shield-against-ccp-act: SHIELD’s immigration workstream would assess CCP exploitation of immigration channels that Stop CCP VISAs seeks to restrict directly. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-06-24 — Countering CCP Act: cross-connection with countering-ccp-act: Both are 119th-Congress measures framed around countering CCP influence, though the Countering CCP Act’s referral to the HELP Committee suggests a non-visa (education/labor/health) focus distinct from Stop CCP VISAs Act’s visa restrictions. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-04-10 — No Visas for Anti-Semitic Students Act: cross-connection with no-visas-antisemitic-students-act: Both bills use visa denial/revocation authority to address foreign-policy-adjacent concerns tied to specific nonimmigrant populations. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-18 — To require an institution of higher education that becomes aware that a student having nonimmigrant status under subparagraph (F)(i) or (J) of section 101(a)(15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)) has endorsed or supported a foreign terrorist organization to notify the SEVIS, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with sevis-terrorist-endorsement-reporting-act: Both target the international student visa population with new eligibility or reporting conditions tied to national security concerns. (novelty: 2)