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This section recaptures unused employment-based immigrant visas made available in FY1992 through FY2024 (reduced annually by visas issued under this provision) and increases the number of such visas under INA §203(b) (8 U.S.C. 1153(b)) by that amount for up to 40,000 employment-based immigrants (and accompanying or following family members under INA §203(d)) who are professional nurses or physicians and whose petitions are filed no later than three years after enactment of the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act. Of those visas, 25,000 are reserved for professional nurses and 15,000 for physicians; such visas are exempt from per-country limitations (INA §202(a)(2)), issued in priority date order, and available only if visas are not otherwise immediately available under regular worldwide and per-country allocations; and family members are charged against the recaptured total but not the reserved numbers for nurses and physicians. (As background, employment-based visas, capped at 140,000 annually, support U.S. employers hiring skilled foreign workers such as healthcare professionals amid shortages; recapture provides a one-time boost from historical underuse.) The section further directs free premium processing (INA §286(u)), expedited shipping of approved petitions requiring consular processing, and expedited consular processing; and requires petitioners for nurses to attest that hiring will not displace U.S. workers.