Title: A bill to add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program.
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
This bill expands the E-3 visa program to cover Irish nationals, which is currently is only available to Australian nationals. For Irish E-3 initial applications, the Department of State may approve each fiscal year no more than 10,500 minus the number of Australian initial applications approved the previous fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3684 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3684

          To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 29, 2018

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
          To add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. E-3 VISAS FOR IRISH NATIONALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)(iii)) is amended by inserting 
``or, on a basis of reciprocity, as determined by the Secretary of 
State, a national of Ireland,'' after ``Australia''.
    (b) Employer Requirements.--Section 212 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1182) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the second subsection (t) (as added by 
        section 1(b)(2)(B) of Public Law 108-449 (118 Stat. 3470)) as 
        subsection (u); and
            (2) by adding at the end of subsection (t)(1) (as added by 
        section 402(b)(2) of Public Law 108-77 (117 Stat. 941)) the 
        following:
            ``(E) In the case of an attestation filed with respect to a 
        national of Ireland described in section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii), 
        the employer is, and will remain during the period of 
        authorized employment of such Irish national, a participant in 
        good standing in the E-Verify program described in section 
        403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant 
        Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1324a note).''.
    (c) Application Allocation.--Section 214(g)(11) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(11)) is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``(11)(A)(i) The Secretary of State may approve initial 
applications submitted for aliens described in section 
101(a)(15)(E)(iii) only in accordance with clauses (ii) and (iii).
    ``(ii) For applicants who are nationals of the Commonwealth of 
Australia, not more than 10,500 such applications may be approved in 
any fiscal year.
    ``(iii) For applicants who are nationals of the Republic of 
Ireland, not more than the number equal to the difference between 
10,500 and the number of applications approved for the immediately 
preceding fiscal year for aliens who are nationals of the Commonwealth 
of Australia may be approved in any fiscal year.
    ``(B) The approval of an application described in subparagraph 
(A)(iii) shall be deemed, for numerical control purposes, to have 
occurred on September 30 of the immediately preceding fiscal year.
    ``(C) The numerical limitations referred to in subparagraph (A) 
shall only apply to principal aliens and shall not apply to the spouses 
or children of such aliens.''.
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