A bill to add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program.
Summary
This bill expands the E-3 visa program to cover Irish nationals. The E-3 visa is a nonimmigrant visa currently only available to Australian nationals coming to the United States for employment in a specialty occupation. For Irish E-3 initial applications, the Department of State may approve each fiscal year no more than 10,500 minus the number of Australian initial applications approved the previous fiscal year.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 17, 2022
Last action Mar 17, 2022
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Committee
1
Mar 17, 2022
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S1255)
upper
Mar 17, 2022
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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