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HR 3687 111th Congress House Immigration Foreign labor Higher education Immigration status and procedures Visas and passports

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

Introduced: October 1, 2009 Introduced by: Issa, Darrell Republican · California See on congress.gov
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Oct 19, 2009
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
Oct 1, 2009
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Oct 1, 2009
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and provide an equal number of annual immigrant visas (55,000) to certain employment-based aliens who obtain an advanced degree in the United States.

What's happening now October 19, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.

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