Originally Posted by
Inchun
It appears Ireland is now added to the E 3 visa status. Congress approved the additional country late last year.....
"This bill expands the E-3 visa program to cover Irish nationals. The E-3 visa is a nonimmigrant visa currently only available to Australian nationals coming to the United States for employment in a specialty occupation. For Irish E-3 initial applications, the Department of State may approve each fiscal year no more than 10,500 minus the number of Australian initial applications approved the previous fiscal year"
See link: w. w. w . congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2877
A bit of explanation here:
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-access-e3-visa
It's hard to read through the government gibberish but this has been introduced into and passed the House of Representatives, was sent to the Senate but not yet passed into law ?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-...losed&s=1#tabs