[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2924 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2924

 To authorize the Secretary of State to discontinue granting visas to 
  nationals of countries failing to meet their North Atlantic Treaty 
   Organization obligations to spend at least 2 percent of its gross 
     domestic product on national defense, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2025

   Mr. Barr introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Secretary of State to discontinue granting visas to 
  nationals of countries failing to meet their North Atlantic Treaty 
   Organization obligations to spend at least 2 percent of its gross 
     domestic product on national defense, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``NATO Burden Sharing Enforcement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCONTINUING GRANTING VISAS TO NATIONALS OF COUNTRY FAILING TO 
              MEET NATO OBLIGATIONS.

    Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1253(d)) is amended--
            (1) in the heading, by inserting ``or Failing to Meet NATO 
        Obligations'' after ``Accepting Aliens'';
            (2) by striking ``Attorney General'' each place it appears 
        and inserting ``Secretary of Homeland Security'';
            (3) by inserting after ``the alien under this section,'' 
        the following: ``or that the government of a foreign country 
        that is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization does 
        not spend at least 2 percent of its gross domestic product on 
        national defense,''; and
            (4) by striking ``Secretary that'' and inserting 
        ``Secretary of State that''.
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