Title: Partner with Korea Act
Policy area: Immigration

Summary:
Partner with Korea Act
This bill creates an E-4 treaty trader visa category for up to 15,000 nationals of South Korea each fiscal year who are coming to the United States solely to perform specialty occupation services, subject to various requirements. The 15,000 limit shall only apply to principal aliens and not the spouses or children of such aliens.
A specialty occupation is one that requires the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or higher.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1762 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1762

 To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2019

Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Bera, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Bishop of 
Georgia, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Case, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
 Cooper, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Kind, Mr. King of New York, Mr. 
Long, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mr. Shimkus, 
  Ms. Speier, Mr. Takano, Mr. Woodall, and Mr. Womack) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, 
                        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 ``Partner with Korea Act''.

SEC. 2. RECIPROCAL VISAS FOR NATIONALS OF SOUTH KOREA.

    (a) In General.--Section 101(a)(15)(E) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``or'' after ``capital;''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end ``or (iv) solely to perform 
        services in a specialty occupation in the United States if the 
        alien is a national of the Republic of Korea and with respect 
        to whom the Secretary of Labor determines and certifies to the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State that 
        the intending employer has filed with the Secretary of Labor an 
        attestation under section 212(t)(1);''.
    (b) Numerical Limitation.--Section 214(g) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(12)(A) The Secretary of State may not approve a number of 
initial applications submitted for aliens described in section 
101(a)(15)(E)(iv) that is more than the applicable numerical 
limitations set out in this paragraph.
    ``(B) The applicable numerical limitation referred to in 
subparagraph (A) is 15,000 for each fiscal year.
    ``(C) The applicable numerical limitation referred to in 
subparagraph (A) shall only apply to principal aliens and not the 
spouses or children of such aliens.''.
    (c) Specialty Occupation Defined.--Section 214(i)(1) of such Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(i)(1)) is amended by striking ``section 
101(a)(15)(E)(iii),'' and inserting ``clauses (iii) and (iv) of section 
101(a)(15)(E),''.
    (d) Attestation.--Section 212(t) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(t)), as 
added by section 402(b)(2) of the United States-Chile Free Trade 
Agreement Implementation Act (Public Law 108-77; 117 Stat. 941), is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``or section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii)'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``or clause (iii) or (iv) of 
        section 101(a)(15)(E)''; and
            (2) in paragraphs (3)(C)(i)(II), (3)(C)(ii)(II), and 
        (3)(C)(iii)(II), by striking ``or 101(a)(15)(E)(iii)'' each 
        place it appears.
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