House Immigration Subcommittee Approves Employment Based Recapture and RN/PT Bills
Both of these bills passed the sub-committee “mark-up” stage in the House Subcommittee last week – a 7:2 vote for H.R. 5924, and 8:1 for H.R. 5882.
This is an important first step forward that will be revisited by Congress following the 5-week “August Recess”. HR 5882 could recapture close to 500,000 green-cards that were lost due to bureaucratic delays for all employment-based categories which would moreover make them current. Family based categories would move forward considerably. HR 5924 would provide 20,000 green-cards per year to RNs and PTs, exempting from the quota dependent family members. We link to the bills below as well as information concerning how a bill becomes a law.
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Tags: H.R. 5882, House Immigration Subcommittee, How a bill become a law, HR 5924, Immigration Solutions, RETROGRESSION