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Monday, May 05, 2008

Congress proposes two bills to recapture unused visas

On April 23, 2008, a bill was introduced by Representative Zoe Lofgren that would recapture 225,000 employment-based visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family and employment-based visas in the future.

On April 29, 2008, she introduced another bill that would eliminate the per country level for employment-based visas and to end the spill over of unused immigrant visa numbers between the employment-based and family-sponsored categories.

The net effect of both of these bills, if passed, would be to greatly reduce the employment based visa backlog.

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