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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations to expand eligibility for the provisional unlawful presence waiver of certain grounds of inadmissibility based on the accrual of unlawful presence to all aliens who are statutorily eligible for a waiver of such grounds, are seeking such a waiver in connection with an immigrant visa application, and meet other conditions. In relation to the statutory requirement that a waiver applicant must demonstrate that the denial of the waiver would result in extreme hardship to a qualifying relative, DHS is eliminating the restrictions currently contained in the provisional unlawful presence regulation that limits the qualifying relative to U.S. citizen spouses and parents. This rule permits an applicant for a provisional waiver to establish the eligibility requirement of showing extreme hardship to any qualifying relative named in the statutory waiver provision namely a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident spouses and parents.