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This concurrent resolution urges the United States Congress to add Ireland to the E-3 nonimmigrant visa program. The E-3 nonimmigrant visa program currently allows highly skilled Australian nationals expedited entry to live and work in the United States. E-3 visa recipients bring highly advanced and specialized knowledge to specialty occupations which otherwise would remain vacant in the United States. The program allocates a total of 10,500 visas to be awarded each year, but half of these visas go unused on an annual basis. House Resolution No. 8761, pending before the United States Congress, would allow for any unused visas to be awarded to Irish nationals who could fill current vacancies in a historically tight American labor market. Irish immigrants have long contributed to growth and development of the United States and the State of New Jersey in particular. The passage of H.R.8761 would further strengthen the special bond that exists between the United States and Ireland, and provide for greater workforce development at the state and national levels.

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Wayne DeAngelo (D)*,  Carol Murphy (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Oversight, Reform and Federal Relations Committee (on 10/03/2022)

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