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The Immigration Nursing Relief Act of 1989 (INRA) fundamentally altered the system by which healthcare facilities obtain temporary (H-1A) working status for foreign-born nurses. Its follow-up, the Immigration Act of 1990 and its 1991 amendments, modified the immigration process with respect to all employers of foreign-born temporary professional workers (H-1B).
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