H.R. 3039: Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
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H.R. 3039: Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
112th Congress · introduced 2011-09-23 · Immigration · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-09-23 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
Plain summary
Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of State to: (1) set a visa processing standard of 12 or fewer calendar days at U.S. diplomatic and consular missions in China, Brazil, and India; and (2) use machine readable nonimmigrant visa fees to hire a sufficient number of Foreign Service officers and limited non-career appointment consular officers to maintain such standard. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a two-year pilot program for the processing of nonimmigrant visas using secure remote video-conferencing technology for visa interviews, and (2) work with other federal agencies that use such secure communications to help ensure security of the video-conferencing transmission and encryption. Directs the Secretary to provide Congress with an annual forecast of demand through 2020 for nonimmigrant visas in the high-growth markets of Brazil, China, and India. Authorizes the Secretary to modify or enter into agreements with certain countries on a non-reciprocal basis to allow for longer visa validity periods if doing so causes no adverse effects to the United States.
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Official text
Welcoming Business Travelers and Tourists to America Act of 2011
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Heck, Joseph J. [R-NV-3] · 40 cosponsors
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Mark E. Amodei (R-NV), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Paul A. Gosar (R-AZ), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Pete Sessions (R-TX), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), William R. Keating (D-MA), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Paul Tonko (D-NY)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112hr3039.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/hr>
Record fed-us-cong112-hr3039 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112