US Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and US Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) introduced a bill, known as the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, on November 2, 2023, to address the nation’s shortage of physicians and nurses.
If
passed, this bill will recapture 25,000 unused immigrant visa for nurses and
15,000 unused immigrant visas for physicians, from previous years. These
visas would not be subject to the per country numerical limit that has
led to lengthy waits for green cards for nurses and physicians from several
countries.
Spouses
and children that are accompanying or following to join these nurses and
physicians, would be eligible for immigrant visas as part of this bill too. The
spouses and children’s visas would not be considered as part of
the 25,000 and 15,000 allocated visas for the nurses and physicians.
The
nurse and physician cases would be required to be adjudicated by USCIS under USCIS’s
premium processing program. There will be no additional fee for the premium
processing.
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