Highlights of the CARE Act and the RIDE Act:
• Utilizes an existing non-immigrant visa known as the P-Visa, which currently allows for the support staff of artists
and entertainers to travel to the U.S. for a limited time. The CARE Act and the RIDE Act clarify that the existing P-Visa category would also apply to staff for the America’s mobile entertainment industry.
• Allows the P-Visa to extend to Foreign Entertainment Staff Temporarily in the U.S. The bill grants temporary,
non-immigrant visas to support staff entering the U.S. temporarily and solely for the purpose of working in the mobile entertainment industry.
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American workers are not available and that wages and working conditions for American workers would not be affected. These are the same limitations placed on the H-2B program which is currently used by the mobile entertainment industry.
• Makes H-2B Visas Available for Other Eligible Workers. Most outdoor amusement companies currently utilize the traditional H-2B temporary worker visas to supplement their American workforce. Clarifying that mobile entertainment industry support staff are able to utilize the P-Visa will reduce demand on the H-2B program by approximately 10,000 visas, making more visas available to other H-2B employers during this historic worker shortage.
• Allows P-Visa to be utilized as originally intended. While
entertainers coming to the U.S. temporarily, it historically has also been available to essential support personnel
who are an integral part of the performance of entertainment under the P-Visa structure. The intent and practical application of the P-Visa conforms well with the outdoor mobile entertainment industry and these proposals makea simple adjustment to clarify and include the performing functions that are integral and essential to the operation of a mobile entertainment provider in the program.
• The bills clarify that mobile entertainment employees are indeed essential support personnel who are an integral part of the performance of a P-Visa applicant and the proposals are extremely restrictive and limited to carnivals or circuses that travel around the United States on a temporary or seasonal basis. The newly created P-4 category is restricted
circuses that travel around the United States on a seasonal or
temporary basis to provide services to State, county, and local organizations for fundraising.
Updated Advocacy Guide Now Available! With the introduction of the RIDE Act, we have updated all
comprehensive guide designed for you to use in reaching out to you with talking points, how to identify your elected
representative and the steps you should take is now updated for outreach to either House or Senate Members. To access the guide simply use the QR Code on this page.
John Ariale is a Managing Principal and the Director of the Federal Appropriations Practice at Husch Blackwell Strategies where he works with Gregg Hartley, William Fox, and Lynn Jacquez as part of OABA’s Government Relations Team in Washington, DC. Husch Blackwell Strategies represents OABA before Congress and the Administration.
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