50,000 Visas for RNs and PTs
Section 502 of the Iraq Appropriations Bill (H.R.1268) provides that AC-21 is amended to
recapture 50,000 lost immigrant visas for Registered Nurses, Physical Therapists and their
spouses and children..
SEC. 502. VISAS FOR NURSES.
Section 106(d) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-313; 8 U.S.C. 1153 note) is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the end of the
second sentence ``and any such visa that is made available due to the
difference between the number of employment-based visas that were made
available in fiscal year 2001, 2002, 2003, or 2004 and the number of
such visas that were actually used in such fiscal year shall be available
only to employment-based immigrants (and their family members accompanying
or following to join under section 203(d) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(d)))
whose immigrant worker petitions were approved based on schedule A, as
defined in section 656.5 of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, as
promulgated by the Secretary of Labor'';
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``and 2000'' and inserting ``through 2004''; and
(3) in paragraph (2), by amending subparagraph (B) to read as follows:
``(B)(i) REDUCTION.--The number described in subparagraph (A) shall be
reduced, for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2001, by the cumulative
number of immigrant visas actually used under paragraph (1) for previous
fiscal years.
``(ii) MAXIMUM.--The total number of visas actually used under paragraph
(1) may not exceed 50,000.''.
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