Enhancing Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program

This executive order directs the Secretaries of State, Labor, and Homeland Security, when processing H-1B petitions, labor condition applications, and visas, to coordinate with the Secretaries of Commerce and Education and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and to consider whether the sponsoring employer engaged in or plans layoffs affecting similarly situated U.S. workers within the previous year. It also directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, to begin reviewing previously submitted labor condition applications within 30 days to determine whether further action against sponsoring employers is warranted, and delegates the President's authority under INA section 215(a) to the Secretaries of State, Commerce, Labor, and Homeland Security to implement the order.

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