A bill newly introduced in the House would provide relief to non-U.S. born health care workers from the $100,000 fee for H-1B visas that was introduced by executive order last year.
Under the Physicians and Healthcare Workforce Act, health care workers from other countries would not be required to pay the new $100,000 visa fee to emigrate to and work in the U.S.
In introducing the measure, the bill’s bipartisan sponsors noted that the $100,000 visa fee will only exacerbate the current shortage of doctors and other health care workers.
Learn more about the bill and its sponsors’ reasons for introducing it from the Fierce Healthcare article “Bipartisan bill introduced to exempt healthcare workers from $100K H-1B visa fee” and from the proposed bill itself.