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H-1A - Professional Nurses
 

This category is for professional nurses for a five-year period, through August 31, 1995. The key requirement imposed on health care facilities by INRA was the labor attestation requirement, through which the facility needed to affirm that it was taking specific, enumerated steps to recruit U.S. workers, train the U.S. workers, and improve nursing wages and working conditions. ? 212(m) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. ? 1182 (m). By the time that the H-1A category expired on August 31, 1995, health care facilities had made substantial reductions in their reliance on foreign nurses. Because of the apparent success of the five-year program in reducing the number of foreign nurses at U.S. facilities, there was little continued need for the complex regulatory requirements imposed by the H-1A category.