SMARTER Act

This bill would end the Diversity Visa lottery and limit family-based green cards to the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, removing categories such as parents, adult children, and siblings, and setting family-sponsored immigration at 88,000 per year minus certain parolees. It would replace current employment-based green card categories and per-country caps with a points system that ranks applicants by age, education, English test scores, salary offered, and other factors. A new five-member board in the Department of Commerce would set yearly limits on employment-based green cards and H-1B-type worker visas, divided by industry. The bill would also create a 'gold card' visa for people who pay $1 million (or $2 million paid by a corporation), bar employment-based visa holders' households from federal means-tested benefits, and direct the Department of Homeland Security to use artificial intelligence to identify visa overstays.

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Sponsors

• David Schweikert Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors