HR 9630 United States House · 117th Congress

High-skilled Immigration Reform for Employment Act

Summary

High-skilled Immigration Reform for Employment Act This bill increases the annual cap on H-1B visas (nonimmigrant visas for workers in specialty occupations) and authorizes grants for education. Specifically, the bill (1) increases the cap on such visas for each fiscal year to from 65.000 to 130,000, and (2) exempts from this cap all visas for individuals with a postgraduate degree from a U.S. institution of higher education (currently, only up to 20,000 such visas are exempted each fiscal year). The bill also modifies the criteria for determining whether an employer is an H-1B-dependent employer. (Such employers are subject to additional requirements.) The Department of Education may make grants to states to support science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (commonly referred to as STEM) education.

Issues: ✓ Education ✓ Immigration

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

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Dec 2022

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Introduced Dec 20, 2022 Last action Dec 20, 2022

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Dec 20, 2022

House · Referred to committee

Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Dec 20, 2022

House · Introduced

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