Partner with Korea Act

Partner with Korea Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to create an E-4 treaty trader visa category for up to 15,000 nationals of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) each fiscal year who are coming to the United States solely to perform specialty occupation services and with respect to whom the Secretary of Labor has certified to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secretary of State that the intending employer has filed an attestation concerning U.S. worker protections with the Secretary of Labor.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2663 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2663

 To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 24, 2014

  Mr. Isakson (for himself, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. Begich) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide high-skilled visas for nationals of the Republic of Korea, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Partner with Korea Act''.

SEC. 2. RECIPROCAL VISAS FOR NATIONALS OF SOUTH KOREA.

    (a) In General.--Section 101(a)(15)(E) of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(E)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iii), by adding ``or'' at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) solely to perform services in a 
                        specialty occupation in the United States if 
                        the alien is a national of the Republic of 
                        Korea and with respect to whom the Secretary of 
                        Labor determines and certifies to the Secretary 
                        of Homeland Security and the Secretary of State 
                        that the intending employer has filed with the 
                        Secretary of Labor an attestation under section 
                        212(t)(1);''.
    (b) Attestation.--Section 212(t) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(t)), as 
added by section 402(b)(2) of the United States-Chile Free Trade 
Agreement Implementation Act (Public Law 108-77; 117 Stat. 941), is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``or section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii)'' each 
        place it appears and inserting ``or clause (iii) or (iv) of 
        section 101(a)(15)(E)''; and
            (2) in clauses (i)(II), (ii)(II), and (iii)(II) of 
        paragraph (3)(C), by striking ``or section 101(a)(15)(E)(iii)'' 
        each place it appears.
    (c) Numerical Limitation.--Section 214(g) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 
1184(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(12)(A) The Secretary of State may not approve a number of 
initial applications submitted for aliens described in section 
101(a)(15)(E)(iv) that is more than the applicable numerical limitation 
set out in this paragraph.
    ``(B) The applicable numerical limitation referred to in 
subparagraph (A) is 15,000 for each fiscal year.
    ``(C) The applicable numerical limitation referred to in 
subparagraph (A) shall only apply to principal aliens and not to the 
spouses or children of such aliens.''.
    (d) Specialty Occupation Defined.--Section 214(i)(1) of such Act (8 
U.S.C. 1184(i)(1)) is amended by striking ``section 
101(a)(15)(E)(iii),'' and inserting ``clauses (iii) and (iv) of section 
101(a)(15)(E),''.
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