S. 5307 — Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Talent Act

This section finds that United States leadership in artificial intelligence is essential to national security, economic prosperity, and global dominance, that attracting and retaining highly skilled foreign nationals is a key factor in maintaining that leadership, and that 60 percent of top United States artificial intelligence companies as of 2025 had at least one immigrant founder.

This section directs the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Secretary of State, to develop and publish within 180 days of enactment a strategy aligning Federal policies, regulations, and practices to attract, admit, retain, and vet foreign talent and cultivate domestic talent in artificial intelligence and other critical technologies. The strategy must assess competitive barriers, immigration effects on entrepreneurship and commercialization, retention of U.S.-trained researchers and founders, talent identification needs including high-priority occupations over the next 5 years, risk-based national security vetting, metrics for competitiveness, and recommendations for administrative actions on the H-1B program and a new entrepreneur visa class, with an implementation report due within 2 years.