Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 2/7/2019
Actions
- 2019-02-07Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2019-02-07Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2019-02-07 (00)
Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
This bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China.
The bill also establishes transition rules for employment-based visas from FY2020-FY2022, by reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability) and EB-3 (skilled and other workers) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas. Of the unreserved visas, not more than 85% shall be allotted to immigrants from any single country.
Cosponsors (20)
- Kamala Harris (D-CA)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Roy Blunt (R-MO)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Thomas Carper (D-DE)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
- Cory Gardner (R-CO)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Michael Bennet (D-CO)
- Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
- Rob Portman (R-OH)
- Roger Wicker (R-MS)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Martha McSally (R-AZ)
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