[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3007 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3007

 To include Portugal in the list of foreign states whose nationals are 
     eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 
 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the 
                        Government of Portugal.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 6, 2018

  Mr. Whitehouse (for himself and Mr. Hatch) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To include Portugal in the list of foreign states whose nationals are 
     eligible for admission into the United States as E-1 and E-2 
 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the 
                        Government of Portugal.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Advancing Mutual Interests and 
Growing Our Success Act'' or the ``AMIGOS Act''.

SEC. 2. NONIMMIGRANT TRADERS AND INVESTORS.

    For purposes of clauses (i) and (ii) of section 101(a)(15)(E) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)), Portugal 
shall be considered to be a foreign state described in such section if 
the Government of Portugal provides similar nonimmigrant status to 
nationals of the United States.
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