[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3986 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3986

 To include Iceland in the list of foreign states whose nationals are 
      eligible for admission into the United States as E1 and E2 
 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the 
             Government of Iceland, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2023

Ms. Pingree (for herself, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Larsen of Washington, and Mr. 
  Courtney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To include Iceland in the list of foreign states whose nationals are 
      eligible for admission into the United States as E1 and E2 
 nonimmigrants if United States nationals are treated similarly by the 
             Government of Iceland, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Iceland Commercial and Economic 
Leadership for Arctic and National Development Act'' or the ``ICELAND 
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)), Iceland 
shall be considered to be a foreign state described in such section if 
the Government of Iceland provides similar nonimmigrant status to 
nationals of the United States.
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