; (2) appear in person for all individual merits hearings before the Executive Office for Immigration Review and interviews involving the Department of Homeland Security; (3) owe the same duties of undivided loyalty, confidentiality, and competent representation to the child as is due to an adult client; and (4) carry out other such duties as may be proscribed by the Attorney General or the Executive Office for Immigration Review. 5. Increases in immigration judges and support staff (a) Immigration judges The Attorney General shall increase the total number of immigration judges to adjudicate pending cases and efficiently process future cases by not fewer than 75 judges during fiscal year 2019. (b) Support staff The Attorney General shall— (1) increase the total number of judicial law clerks by 75 during fiscal year 2019; and (2) increase the total number of support staff for immigration judges, including legal assistants and interpreters, by 300 during fiscal year 2019. 6. Docket management for resource conservation Notwithstanding any opposition from the Secretary, immigration judges may administratively close cases, and the Board of Immigration Appeals may remand cases for administrative closure, if an individual in removal proceedings— (1) appears to be prima facie eligible for a visa or other immigration benefit; and (2) has a pending application for such benefit before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or another appropriate agency. 7. Definitions In this Act: (1) Agent; officer The terms agent and officer include contractors of the Federal Government. (2) Child The term child means an individual who— (A) has not attained 18 years of age; and (B) has no permanent immigration status. (3) Committees of jurisdiction The term committees of jurisdiction means— (A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate ; (B) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate