Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

This bill would add employment-based green cards for foreign nurses and physicians by using visas that went unused in fiscal years 1992 through 2024. Up to 40,000 visas would be available, with 25,000 set aside for professional nurses and 15,000 for physicians, for petitions filed within three years after the law takes effect. These visas would not count toward per-country limits, and family members would receive visas from the unused pool without counting against the 40,000. Immigration agencies would have to speed up processing of these petitions without charging a premium fee, and employers of nurses would have to attest that hiring the immigrant has not displaced and will not displace a U.S. worker.

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Sponsors

• Bradley Scott Schneider Democrat sponsor
• 17 cosponsors