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H.R.5882

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To recapture employment-based immigrant visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and employment-based immigrant visas in the future.

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June 27, 2008 Daily Dose: 06/27/08

HR 5882, sponsored by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., would neither increase the immigration quota nor legalizes illegal immigrants. How well the bill does in Congress will demonstrate whether some legislators oppose illegal ...

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May 14, 2008 June Visa Bulletin

HR 5882 seeks to recapture unused visas from 1992 to 2007. These would be work-related visas. While the Bill does not single out healthcare workers, it does set a minimum of 226000 visas to be recaptured, so there should be plenty for ...

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May 13, 2008 Reclaiming lost numbers ...

So finally, Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) introduced a bill (HR 5882) two weeks ago to “recapture” employment-based (EB) green cards that Congress authorized in the past but that went unused before the ...

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