Congressional Updates
President Signs DOJ Authorization Act into Law
11/2/02
AILA Doc. No. 02110441.
Business Immigration, EB-5 Investors, H-1B & H-1B1 Specialty Occupation, Physicians & Healthcare, Waivers
President Bush, on 11/2/02, signed into law the "21st Century Department of Justice Appropriations Authorization Act" (H.R. 2215). The new law contains immigration provisions impacting, among other things, H-1B status, J-1 physician waivers, and EB-5 entrepreneurs. See AILA Doc. No. 02092734 (under the Related Links section to the right) for a previous summary of the Act's immigration provisions. A public law number has not yet been assigned.