I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4427 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity 
immigrant program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2017 
Ms. MCSALLY (for herself, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, and Mr. 
JENKINS of West Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate 
the diversity immigrant program, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting America 
and American Workers Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF DIVERSITY VISAS TO LEVEL NEC-
ESSARY FOR NACARA; PARTIAL REALLOCA-
TION OF VISAS TO BENEFIT CERTAIN EM-
PLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRANTS. 
(a) REDUCTION OF DIVERSITY VISAS TO LEVEL FOR 
NACARA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 201(e) of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(e)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘55,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘5,000’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE; SUNSET.—The amend-
ment made by paragraph (1) shall take effect on Oc-
tober 1, 2018, and shall cease to be effective on the 
effective date described in section 3(d)(2). 
(b) PARTIAL REALLOCATION OF VISAS TO BENEFIT 
CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT-BASED IMMIGRANTS.— 
(1) WORLDWIDE
LEVEL
OF
IMMIGRATION.— 
Section 201(d) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(d)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(3) Beginning with fiscal year 2019, in addition to 
the worldwide level of employment-based immigrants com-
puted under paragraphs (1) and (2), there shall be avail-
able for issuance in each fiscal year— 
‘‘(A) 8,000 visas, to be allotted to qualified im-
migrants who are the beneficiary of a petition ap-
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proved under subparagraph (E) or (F) of section 
204(a)(1) for classification under section 203(b)(1); 
‘‘(B) 8,000 visas, to be allotted to qualified im-
migrants who are the beneficiary of a petition ap-
proved under section 204(a)(1)(F) for classification 
under section 203(b)(2); and 
‘‘(C) 8,000 visas, to be allotted to qualified im-
migrants who are the beneficiary of a petition ap-
proved under section 204(a)(1)(F) for classification 
under section 203(b)(3).’’. 
(2) ALLOCATION OF IMMIGRANT VISAS.—Sec-
tion 203(b) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)) is 
amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), in the matter pre-
ceding subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘, and 
plus the number of visas specified in section 
201(d)(3)(A),’’ after ‘‘(4) and (5),’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting ‘‘, 
and plus the number of visas specified in sec-
tion 201(d)(3)(B),’’ after ‘‘(1),’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (3)(A), in the matter 
preceding clause (i), by inserting ‘‘, and plus 
the number of visas specified in section 
201(d)(3)(C),’’ after ‘‘(1) and (2),’’. 
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(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made 
by this subsection shall take effect on October 1, 
2018. 
SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF DIVERSITY IMMIGRANT PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) WORLDWIDE LEVEL OF IMMIGRATION.—Section 
201 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1151) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (1); 
(B) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end of para-
graph (2) and inserting a period; and 
(C) by striking paragraph (3); and 
(2) by striking subsection (e). 
(b) ALLOCATION OF IMMIGRANT VISAS.—Section 203 
of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1153) is amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (c); 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘(a), (b), or 
(c),’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) or (b),’’; 
(3) in subsection (e), by striking paragraph (2) 
and redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); 
(4) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘(a), (b), or 
(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) or (b)’’; and 
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(5) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘(a), (b), and 
(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) and (b)’’. 
(c) PROCEDURE FOR GRANTING IMMIGRANT STA-
TUS.—Section 204 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1154) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking subsection (a)(1)(I); and 
(2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘(a), (b), or 
(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) or (b)’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) DETERMINATION.—The Secretary of State 
and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly 
determine when visa numbers made available under 
section 201(e) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1151(e)) (relating to the worldwide 
level of diversity immigrants) are no longer nec-
essary to offset adjustments of status under section 
309 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immi-
grant Responsibility (8 U.S.C. 1101 note), as re-
quired by section 203(d) of the Nicaraguan Adjust-
ment and Central American Relief Act (8 U.S.C. 
1151 note). Such Secretaries shall publish a notice 
in the Federal Register of such determination. 
(2) AMENDMENTS.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the first day of the 
first fiscal year that begins after the date on which 
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the determination under paragraph (1) is published 
in the Federal Register. 
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