Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 14
- Latest action
- Sep 10, 2025
What it does
The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would increase the number of employment-based immigrant visas available for professional nurses and physicians by recapturing unused visas from fiscal years 1992 through 2024, with up to 40,000 visas (25,000 for nurses and 15,000 for physicians) made available for petitions filed within three years of enactment. These visas would be exempt from per-country caps and issued in priority date order, but only to beneficiaries for whom visas are not otherwise immediately available under existing worldwide and country-specific allocations. The bill also requires labor attestation to ensure hiring does not displace U.S. workers and mandates premium and…
No official summary is available here. This one was written by AI from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.