SMARTER Act

This bill would change the federal Immigration and Nationality Act in several ways. It would end the Diversity Visa Program, limit family-based green cards to spouses and minor children of citizens and permanent residents, and set the yearly family-sponsored level at 88,000 minus certain parolees who stayed. It would create a five-member board in the Commerce Department to set yearly limits on work-based green cards and H-1B-type visas (renamed SMARTER visas) by industry. It would also rank work-based green card applicants by points for age, education, English skills, and salary offer. Other parts would create a 'gold card' visa for people who pay $1 million (or $2 million paid by a company), bar work-visa green card holders and their households from federal means-tested benefits, and direct Homeland Security to use artificial intelligence to find people who overstay visas.

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Sponsors

• David Schweikert Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors