[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3730 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3730

    To authorize unused visas numbers made available under section 
 101(a)(15)(E)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to be made 
       available to nationals of Ireland, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2015

Mr. Sensenbrenner introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize unused visas numbers made available under section 
 101(a)(15)(E)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to be made 
       available to nationals of Ireland, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. UNUSED E-3 VISA NUMBERS AVAILABLE TO NATIONALS OF IRELAND.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, visa 
numbers made available under section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)(iii)) that 
were unused by nationals of the Commonwealth of Australia during a 
fiscal year shall be made available on the same basis in the subsequent 
fiscal year to nationals of Ireland residing in that country.
    (b) Qualifications.--Section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)(iii)) is amended by 
inserting ``, or solely to perform services as an employee and who has 
at least a high school education or its equivalent, (which shall 
include passage of a high school equivalency examination) or has, 
within 5 years, at least 2 years of work experience in an occupation 
classified as Zone 2 or higher by the Bureau of Labor Statistics if the 
alien is a national of the Republic of Ireland,'' after ``Australia''.
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