To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize additional visas for well-educated aliens to live and work in the United States, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-6794| House
| Updated: 9/13/2018
Mike Coffman
Republican Representative
Colorado
Cosponsors (1)
Judiciary Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 This bill makes various changes related to employment-based visas, including by (1) providing statutory authority for extending employment authorization to the alien spouse of an H-1B visa holder, subject to prevailing wage-level requirements; (2) allowing an H-1B visa holder, under certain circumstances, to change jobs without amending the H-1B petition; and (3) increasing the issuance of employment-based visas based on the number of visas that went unissued in previous years.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Immigration
Administrative remediesCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsCongressional oversightEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsFamily relationshipsForeign laborGovernment studies and investigationsGovernment trust fundsHigher educationImmigration status and proceduresScience and engineering educationTeaching, teachers, curriculaUser charges and feesVisas and passportsVocational and technical educationWages and earnings
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize additional visas for well-educated aliens to live and work in the United States, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-6794| House
| Updated: 9/13/2018
Immigration Innovation Act of 2018 This bill makes various changes related to employment-based visas, including by (1) providing statutory authority for extending employment authorization to the alien spouse of an H-1B visa holder, subject to prevailing wage-level requirements; (2) allowing an H-1B visa holder, under certain circumstances, to change jobs without amending the H-1B petition; and (3) increasing the issuance of employment-based visas based on the number of visas that went unissued in previous years.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mike Coffman
Republican Representative
Colorado
Cosponsors (1)
Judiciary Committee, Education and Workforce Committee
Immigration
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Administrative remediesCompetitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficitsCongressional oversightEducation programs fundingElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsFamily relationshipsForeign laborGovernment studies and investigationsGovernment trust fundsHigher educationImmigration status and proceduresScience and engineering educationTeaching, teachers, curriculaUser charges and feesVisas and passportsVocational and technical educationWages and earnings