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        <fullName>Rep. Myrick, Sue Wilkins [R-NC-9]</fullName>
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        <state>NC</state>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit issuance of a nonimmigrant temporary religious worker visa (R-visa) to an alien whose country of nationality has been determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security to not extend reciprocal immigration treatment to U.S. nationals. </p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the country of origin of a nonimmigrant religious worker to extend reciprocal immigration treatment to nationals of the United States.</title>
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