1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Allied Nations Travel Modernization Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) In 2016, 23 million people entered the United States under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). Visitors through VWP constituted roughly 1/3 of all temporary visitors. According to the Department of Commerce, VWP travelers in fiscal year 2014 spent approximately $84 billion on goods and services. (2) Due to the VWP, the U.S. Government saved from $1.9 billion to $3.2 billion for the cost of interviewing visitors in 2010. (3) All VWP countries are required to enter into information-sharing agreements with the United States on whether the citizens or nationals of that country traveling to the United States represent a security or criminal threat to the United States. (4) VWP countries have provided the United States with information on more than 6,000 known or suspected terrorists as a result of VWP information sharing arrangements. (5) VWP countries have provided nearly 70 percent of the records in INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document Database, which DHS utilizes in its daily vetting of ESTA applications and Advance Passenger Information/Passenger Name Record data. (6) According to a Department of State FY 2018 annual report, the United States issued over 120,000 nonimmigrant visas to Polish nationals and over 50,000 nonimmigrant visas to Romanian nationals. (7) A Fiscal Year 2017 Report by the Department of Homeland Security found that the suspected in-country overstay rate was 1.17 percent for Poland and 1.19 percent for Romania. (8) Poland has taken a serious stance against terrorism in recent years. This has included withdrawing from a refugee relocation plan by the EU after the 2015 Paris terror attacks. (9) Romania deployed approximately 730 troops to Afghanistan and Iraq and has signed all twelve of the international protocols and conventions pertaining to terrorism. (10) Congress should continue to promote the economy and provide government agencies with the