Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

Key Points

• This bill would take up to 40,000 employment visas that were never used between 1992 and 2024 and give them to foreign-trained medical professionals to help fill staffing gaps.
• The plan sets aside 25,000 visas specifically for professional nurses and 15,000 for physicians who want to work in the United States.
• To get workers into hospitals faster, these visas would not be limited by the usual 'country caps,' which often cause people from certain nations to wait many years for approval.
• Family members of these doctors and nurses would be allowed to come to the U.S. with them, and these family members would not count toward the 40,000-person limit.
• Employers must sign a statement proving that hiring a foreign nurse or doctor will not take a job away from a qualified American worker or lower the wages of local staff.
• The government would be required to process these specific applications quickly and would not be allowed to charge the typical extra fees for 'premium' fast-tracking service.