E Visa Integrity Act of 2019

Bill: 116-s-2863
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2019-11-14
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Economic performance and conditions

Financial services and investments

U.S. and foreign investments

Visas and passports
Latest action: action_date: 2019-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-11-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>E Visa Integrity Act of 2019</b></p> <p>This bill imposes additional requirements to acquire an E visa (for an investor or trader who is a national of a foreign country with a treaty of commerce and navigation with the United States, or an Australian specialty worker). </p> <p>Specifically, if an alien became the national of a foreign country with a treaty of commerce and navigation with the United States through a financial investment in that foreign country, the alien must have been domiciled in that foreign country for a continuous period of at least three years at any point before applying for an E visa.</p> <p>The bill also requires an alien seeking an E-2 visa (investor) to invest a substantial and economically impactful amount of capital in the United States, where currently the statute only requires an investment of a substantial amount. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2863 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 14, 2019 Mr. Lee (for himself and Mr. Grassley ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the eligibility criteria for E visas.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the E Visa Integrity Act of 2019 . 2. Modification of eligibility criteria for E visas Section 101(a)(15)(E) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E) ) is amended to read as follows: (E) an alien entitled to enter the United States under and in pursuance of the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the foreign state of which the alien is a national (or, in the case of an alien who acquired the relevant nationality through a financial investment, the foreign state of which the alien is a national and in which the alien has been domiciled for a continuous period of not less than 3 years at any point before applying for a nonimmigrant visa under this subparagraph) and the spouse and children of any such alien if accompanying or following to join the alien— (i) solely to carry on substantial trade, including trade in services or trade in technology, principally between the United States and the foreign state of which the alien is a national; (ii) solely to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which the alien has invested, or is actively in the process of investing, a substantial and economically impactful amount of capital; or (iii) solely to perform services in a specialty occupation in the United States if the alien is a national of the Commonwealth of Australia 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). .