US Congress House Bill 3039 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 17 2012 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) set a visa processing standard of 12 or fewer calendar days at U.S. diplomatic and consular missions in China, Brazil, and India; and (2) use machine readable nonimmigrant visa fees to hire a sufficient number of Foreign Service officers and limited non-career appointment consular officers to maintain such standard. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a two-year pilot program for the processing of nonimmigrant visas using secure remote video-conferencing technology for visa interviews, and (2) work with other federal agencies that use such secure communications to help ensure security of the video-conferencing transmission and encryption. Directs the Secretary to provide Congress with an annual forecast of demand through 2020 for nonimmigrant visas in the high-growth markets of Brazil, China, and India. Authorizes the Secretary to modify or enter into agreements with certain countries on a non-reciprocal basis to allow for longer visa validity periods if doing so causes no adverse effects to the United States.

Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011

Rep Heck, Joseph J.	Rep Amodei, Mark E.	Rep Berkley, Shelley	Rep Bonner, Jo
Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z.	Rep Carnahan, Russ	Rep Christensen, Donna M.	Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario
Rep Dold, Robert J.	Rep Farr, Sam	Rep Fitzpatrick, Michael G.	Rep Gosar, Paul A.
Rep Grimm, Michael G.	Rep Hanabusa, Colleen W.	Rep Hirono, Mazie K.	Rep Honda, Michael M.
Rep Keating, William R.	Rep Kinzinger, Adam	Rep LoBiondo, Frank A.	Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine
Rep Mack, Connie	Rep Michaud, Michael H.	Rep Murphy, Christopher S.	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Rep Palazzo, Steven M.	Rep Posey, Bill	Rep Quigley, Mike	Rep Rooney, Thomas J.
Rep Roskam, Peter J.	Rep Ross, Dennis	Rep Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch	Rep Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho
Rep Schock, Aaron	Rep Sessions, Pete	Rep Stivers, Steve	Rep Terry, Lee
Rep Tiberi, Patrick J.	Rep Tipton, Scott	Rep Tonko, Paul D.	Rep West, Allen B.
Rep Wilson, Joe

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-05-17	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2011-10-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.
2011-09-23	House	Referred to House Foreign Affairs
2011-09-23	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2011-09-23	House	Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03039:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3039ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3039ih.pdf