Title: ARTS Act of 2018
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Arts Require Timely Service Act of 2018 or the ARTS Act of 2018
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to adjudicate O and P visa petitions (nonimmigrant visas for aliens with extraordinary ability or achievement, and artists and entertainers) within 14 days after receiving such petitions and related documents.
The bill grants premium visa processing without charge to a petitioner that is a nonprofits arts organization if DHS does not meet the deadline for adjudicating a visa petition.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2466 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2466

    To encourage and facilitate international participation in the 
                performing arts, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 28, 2018

 Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To encourage and facilitate international participation in the 
                performing arts, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Arts Require Timely Service Act of 
2018'' or the ``ARTS Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN THE PERFORMING ARTS.

    Section 214(c)(6)(D) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(c)(6)(D)) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by inserting ``(i)'' before 
        ``Any person'';
            (2) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``Once'' and inserting ``Except as 
                provided in clause (ii), once''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Attorney General shall'' and 
                inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security shall'';
            (3) in the third sentence, by striking ``The Attorney 
        General'' and inserting ``The Secretary''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(ii) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall adjudicate each 
petition for an alien with extraordinary ability in the arts (as 
described in section 101(a)(15)(O)(i)), an alien accompanying such an 
alien (as described in section 101(a)(15)(O)(ii)), or an alien 
described in section 101(a)(15)(P) (other than an alien described in 
paragraph (4)(A) (relating to athletes)) not later than 14 days after--
            ``(I) the date on which the petitioner submits the petition 
        with a written advisory opinion, letter of no objection, or 
        request for a waiver; or
            ``(II) the date on which the 15-day period described in 
        clause (i) has expired, if the petitioner has had an 
        appropriate opportunity to supply rebuttal evidence.
    ``(iii) If a petition described in clause (ii) is not adjudicated 
by the end of the 14-day period described in clause (ii) and the 
petitioner is an arts organization described in paragraph (3), (5), or 
(6) of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt 
from tax under section 501(a) of such Code for the taxable year 
preceding the calendar year in which the petition is submitted, or an 
individual or entity petitioning primarily on behalf of such an 
organization, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide the 
petitioner with the premium processing services referred to in section 
286(u), without a fee.''.
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