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This bill, called the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, aims to address healthcare professional shortages by recapturing unused employment-based immigrant visas for nurses and physicians. Specifically, the bill would make up to 40,000 additional immigrant visas available over three years, with 25,000 reserved for professional nurses and 15,000 for physicians. These visas would be exempt from per-country numerical limitations and issued based on the original petition's priority date. To qualify, immigrant workers must have filed their petitions within three years of the act's enactment. The bill includes provisions to ensure that hiring these foreign healthcare professionals will not displace existing U.S. workers, and it mandates expedited processing of visa applications through premium processing without additional fees. Family members of these healthcare professionals would also be eligible to immigrate without counting against the reserved visa numbers. The visas would only be issued if they are not immediately available through existing worldwide and per-country visa allocations, effectively recapturing unused visas from fiscal years 1992 through 2024. The goal is to help address critical workforce shortages in the healthcare sector by facilitating the immigration of skilled nurses and physicians.

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