Hey guys, in this video, we're gonna talk about the healthcare workforce resilience
act. It's a legislation that's bipartisan guys that targets physicians and nurses,
and it's making its way through Congress. And it looks a little promising. So we're going to
dive into it and see what it's all about. Thank you for watching this video. I'm Latoya
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Let's talk a little bit about this new leg, this legislation that's working its way through, um,
con Chris. So again, friends, it's the healthcare workforce resilience act, and there's a similar
bill that, um, is making its way on the house side as well. The goal is to enhance our nation's nurse
and physician workforce during COVID 19 during the COVID 19 crisis by recapturing unused immigrant
visas. This one aims to look at visas that were allocated in previous years under the employment
base, um, preference system, uh, unused visas, and use them now to bring in nurses and physician
to assist us during this COVID, um, 19 crisis. Let's take a look at section two recap and unused
immigrant visas for professional nurses and physicians. According to the legislation,
it says that, uh, the number of employment based visas made available under certain
section of our law shall be in increased by the number calculated below in the legislation.
And so the first part talks a little bit about the limitations. Um, visas may only
be made available under this subsection up for up to 40,000 employment based immigrants
and their family members whose immigrant worker petitions were filed before. The date that is 90
days after the termination of the president's declaration, um, of national emergency, uh,
during the, um, pertaining to the COVID 19 outbreak in the us under the legislation,
it reserves 25,000 visas for per professional nurses and 15,000 visas for physicians.
Now what's also cool about this friends is that it, um, folks who will can be brought in
under this legislation, if it does pass, um, will be exempt from the country caps that are currently
in place, uh, for certain countries like India, China visas made available under this subsection
shall not be subject to the per country numerical limitation. And those visas shall be issued in
order of if the priority date assigned at the time the visa petition was filed.
It also says that what the unused visas are gonna be based on, um, fiscal years, 1992 through 2020.
So these are employment based visas that were made available during the, during that time
period, um, but were never used. The legislation also says that premium processing is available
and also expedited process in once a petition has been approved by U S C I S they must swiftly get
the approval over to the national visa center for further process in.
And then, um, there has to be a labor ATEST station that's attached to this. A petitioner
shall attest in the offer letter presented by the alien to a counselor officer during the counselor
interview that the higher end of the alien has not displaced and will not displace United States
workers. This is good news for physicians and nurses outside of the United States who
are trying to come in and also good news for our country, because there is a labor shortage.
As many of you may already know a labor shortage, um, at our hospitals being able to bring in,
in a swift way, um, nurses and physicians is a good thing overall for our country. I believe
if you're here in the United States and you're a nurse, um, and you're thinking, oh my goodness,
this is my op, this is my chance, right? This can help me potentially to get a green card. Well, no,
if you had overstay and you have unlawful presence on your record,
this cannot help you unless you have a qualifying relative that would allow you to file the unlawful
presence waiver and get that approved, and then you would count your process. So that's the only
way that something like this could help you if it does pass. But let me jump back on, um, to
the legislation here and take you guys into, um, something that is promising and exciting.
And it's with respect to who is, uh, co-sponsoring the legislation. So as you can see, um, currently
there are 25, uh, co-sponsors of this legislation and it's bipartisan guys, Senator corn of,
uh, Texas. Who's also on the, uh, Senate judiciary committee. He's an original co-sponsor and several
other Republicans have recently joined, Um, their support for this Senator, Rob Portman,
out of Ohio, um, Senator Tillis in, uh, North Carolina and then also Senator Kramer. And
these are recent, um, additions to this list. So this is actually very positive. It's going
in the right direction. Okay. Senator Boozman of Arkansas is also on it. Um, uh, Senator Joanie, S
of Iowa. Okay. And so these are Republican members. Um, many of which are, uh,
many of them are conservative, right? And they're part of this. They wanna be on this. What
It says to me is that it's move In the right direction.
And also on the house side, it is bipartisan support on the house side as well. So I'm
watching this and I'm hopeful that the members of Congress will do the right thing for our country
And add more capacity to our hospitals to help us during this COVID pandemic guys,
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