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Section 3: Student Visa Reform Removes Visa Hurdles for Students. Addresses a technicality in current law that prevents companies from obtaining green cards for foreign students without first sending them home or putting them on temporary visas, by providing students with so-called dual intent. Section 4: Age-Out Protections for Children Protects Children from Processing Delays. Provides for complete age-out protections, so that children are not separated from their families due to processing delays. Section 5: Permanent Priority Dates Protects Families from Further Delays in Visa Lines. Provides for permanent retention of priority dates so that individuals whose family relationships changefor example, when a adult son or daughter gets marriedthose individuals receive credit for the time they have already waited in visa lines, and are not penalized by having to go to the end of the line and start over again. Original Cosponsors: Gutierrez, Gonzalez, Conyers, George Miller, Roybal-Allard, Napolitano, Hinojosa, Honda, Eshoo, Matsui, and Sablan.