House passes 2 immigration bills before recess.

House Passes Two Immigration Bills before Recess

Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two immigration bills: H.R. 398 and H.R. 1933. (See Roll Call Votes 684 and 685) The first bill, H.R. 398, is sponsored by Immigration Subcommittee ranking chair Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). H.R. 398 would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to toll (stop from running) the 90-day period in which an alien and petitioning spouse must file a petition and complete an interview to remove the alien’s conditional legal permanent resident status while either the alien or petitioning spouse is a member of the U.S. military serving abroad. (H.R. 398 at § 1(a)) Under current law, when a legal resident marries a foreign national, the alien spouse is granted lawful permanent residence on a conditional basis for the first two years they are in the country. (INA § 216(a)(1)) The Attorney General removes this conditional status only after he makes a favorable determination that the marriage between the alien spouse and petitioner is legitimate. (INA § 216(c))

The second bill, H.R. 1933, is sponsored by Judiciary Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX). H.R. 1933 would reinstate an expired program that admits nonimmigrant nurses to work in “health professional shortage areas.” The expired program, which terminated in 2009, provided for 500 nonimmigrant visas each fiscal year to aliens who obtained a nursing license, passed the requisite exam, and were otherwise eligible. (See the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999, Public Law 106-95) Each alien was granted an admission period of three years under the prior Act. Similarly, H.R. 1933 would allow the government to issue 300 visas to eligible foreign nurses each year for the next three years. (H.R. 1933 at §§ 1(a)-(b)) At the end of this initial period, admitted nurses can extend their stay for an additional three-years. (Id. at § 1(a)) Under the bill, visa recipients may also accept new employment as a nurse upon the successful petition of a new hospital employer. (Id. at § 1(c))

Both bills have been sent over to the Senate for action. Stay tuned to FAIR for updates…


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H. R 1933 work for Dreamers seeking Nursing Jobs?

Coming from a website with a domain name such as "www.rightsidenews.com" probably means this is not going to help any of us.

the H. R. 1933 would mostly benefit, filipino community, I have dialysis and its mostly filipino staff, that come from the philippines

This doesn't necessarily benefit any dreamers. If you look up the PDF file of the bill it says its for people who are RN and can work in their country of origin. They can find a facility here in America that will be willing to sponsor them and will be given a Visa for I think 3 years?

I don't think anyone that's a dreamer who will graduate or has graduated from a nursing program here in America could qualify. I do hope I am wrong but for the matter at least there is a sense that we are heading towards the right direction regarding immigration.

It might be small and tiny steps but regardless its a step in the right direction.......should these bills pass that is lol.


http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-10...-106publ95.pdf

So it would benefit any one living in another country, but USA?

To some extent, but it also pressures the leaders of this country to fix our broken immigration system first and deal with what's on hand. Why pour more water into a glass that is already full? That's what I think of it. I do wish it benefits us all though.

(H.R. 398 at § 1(a)) Under current law, when a legal resident marries a foreign national, the alien spouse is granted lawful permanent residence on a conditional basis for the first two years they are in the country. (INA § 216(a)(1)) The Attorney General removes this conditional status only after he makes a favorable determination that the marriage between the alien spouse and petitioner is legitimate. (INA § 216(c))


If I understood it correctly, this sounds like good news for those of us who want to get married someday.

The only reason Lamar Smith sponsored Bill H. R. 1933 is because it means cheap labor, it wouldn't help with the immigration problem, in fact a lot of Republicans want to increase the visas limit to bring more work force from overseas even thought they have qualified individual ready to work here in the states. I know a lot of person that have papers that are in the medical field that cant find a job unless they take a job cut, I'm sure if Bill H. R. 1933 passes a lot of the work force would earn less, but I remember Rep Stephen King complained that dreamers would take advantage of chain migration, well with this bill the chain migration will grow and we the dreamers will remain in the same boat, while others that have not suffered like us will have IT MADE

Well let's hope and pray something happens real soon that will help us....