3.0.0 3291 2025-12-06T00:35:24Z 2025-12-06T00:35:24Z Senate S S 2023-11-13 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3291 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-11-13T23:40:17Z 118 6542 HR 2023-12-01 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. Related bill CRS 2023-11-13 ssju00 Judiciary Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. IntroReferral 2023-11-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001096 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] Kevin Cramer R ND N H000273 Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] John Hickenlooper D CO W. 2023-11-13 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2023-11-13 True B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2023-12-12 False Immigration Immigration 2023-11-20T15:30:46Z

00 2023-11-13 Introduced in Senate 2023-11-20T16:02:47Z <p><strong>Equal Access to Green cards for Legal Employment Act of 2023 or the EAGLE Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill modifies requirements related to employment-based visas and addresses related issues.</p> <p>The bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15% and eliminates the per-country cap for employment-based immigrant visas. </p> <p>The bill establishes transition rules for employment-based visas such as (1) reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability) and EB-3 (skilled and other workers) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas, and (2) allotting a number of visas for professional nurses and physical therapists. </p> <p>The bill imposes additional requirements on an employer seeking an H-1B visa, such as prohibiting (1) an employer from advertising that a position is only open to H-1B applicants or that H-1B applicants are preferred, and (2) certain employers from having more than half of their employees as nonimmigrant visa workers.</p> <p>The Department of Labor shall create a publicly available website where an employer seeking an H-1B visa must post certain information about the open position. </p> <p>The bill also expands Labor's authority to review and investigate H-1B applications for fraud or misrepresentations.</p> <p>The bill also allows certain non-U.S. nationals (<i>aliens</i> under federal law) to obtain lawful permanent resident status if the individual (1) is in the United States as a nonimmigrant, (2) has an approved immigrant visa petition, and (3) has waited at least two years for a visa. </p>

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