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    <item congress="117" measure-type="hr" measure-number="9141" measure-id="id117hr9141" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2022-10-07" update-date="2023-09-12">
        <title>Visitor Visa Wait Time Reduction Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id117hr9141v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2023-09-12">
            <action-date>2022-10-07</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Visitor Visa Wait Time Reduction Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of State to report to Congress on the average waiting time to get a visitor visa interview at each diplomatic or consular post.&nbsp; For each post where the average waiting time is longer than 300 days, the State Department must temporarily reassign personnel at that post to shorten the waiting time.</p>]]></summary-text>
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