To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a separate nonimmigrant classification for fashion models.

6/5/2008--Reported to House amended. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to replace the current nonimmigrant (H-1B) visa category for fashion models with a new (P-4) visa category. Defines such category as a fashion model who is of distinguished merit and ability and who is seeking to enter the United States temporarily to perform fashion modeling services that involve events or productions which have a distinguished reputation or that are performed for an organization or establishment that has a distinguished reputation for, or a record of, utilizing prominent modeling talent. Provides that such entrants may not:
(1) exceed 1,000 in any fiscal year, not including accompanying spouses or children; and
(2) stay in the United States for more than 10 years (initial five-year period with one five-year extension). Makes an employer petition for such alien models eligible for expedited consultation procedures. States that applicable H-1B regulations, guidelines, and precedents in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act for the adjudication of fashion model petitions shall be applied to P-4 petitions, except to the extent modified by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Sponsor

• Rep. Anthony Weiner [D, NY-9]

Committees

• House Judiciary
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November 05, 2007

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• Added to calendar on Jun 05, 2008: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 442..
• Jun 05, 2008: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-699.
• May 14, 2008: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
• Added to calendar on May 14, 2008: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 20 - 3..
• May 13, 2008: Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Discharged.
• Dec 03, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
• Introduced on Nov 05, 2007.
• Nov 05, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Immigration
• Admission of nonimmigrants
• Alien labor
• Clothing
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• Labor
• Skilled labor
• Visas

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May 09, 2008 'Ugly American' bill passes committee; allows more foreign models ...

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October 10, 2008 New government documents in Milner Library, September 2008

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August 11, 2008 CQ Today - Congress Tries a Piecemeal Approach to Overhauling ...

House leaders are also expected to vote in September on bills extending the availability of P-1 visa renewals to foreign professional athletes ( HR 5060 ), and creating a new, P-4 category of visas for foreign fashion models ( HR 4080 ) ...

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June 30, 2008 the gathering storm: immigration policy for skilled workers needs ...

jokes apart, the weiner bill — hr 4080, does highlight a fundamental problem with us immigration policy. with regards to talent we have no policy. what we do have are immigration laws dating to the 1940s that have been sporadically ...

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