Ease green card backlogs for highly skilled employment based immigrants

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One needs to only take a look at the visa bulletins published in the USCIS web-site every month to get an idea of how slow the process is for immigrants in the 'Highly skilled' category from India, China, Philippines and Mexico. For example, applications from the year 2001 are currently being processed today (10 years later) for the EB3 employment based category from India. And the actual time people get the green card may well be 3-4 years later.
This means that these thousands of people have been facing great hardship and constraints in their career. It has in effect stifled innovation in the country to an extent, because these highly skilled people had a great potential to open up new ventures, create new jobs, advance science and technology and contribute to society in numerous other ways
A hidden cost is also that the spouses of these highly skilled people also often have advanced degrees and Phd's, but they are prevented from joining the workforce because of the restrictive nature of the work visas.
Today the country could do with thousands of new start-ups, medical facilities, nurses, teachers and college professors. Also, the housing market could benefit from this section of people, because once they settle down in their lives they will be able to buy houses.
The sword of uncertainty must be removed from their heads NOW if they are expected to stay here, and if the country is to attract more skilled and bright people.
Today the immigration debate has been hijacked by low-skilled and illegal immigrants, numbering in millions, because, for these few thousands there is no political voice backing them up. In the interest of fairness and true justice they need to be taken care of so that they can join you in the fight for maintaining the ideals and traditions of this great country that is America
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  1. Thu., Aug. 19, 2010 3:47 PM    link Name not displayed | Jersey City, NJ

  2. Fri., Aug. 13, 2010 8:47 AM    link Sinduja R. | San Angelo, TX

  3. Fri., Aug. 13, 2010 4:57 AM    link sairam h. | San Angelo, TX

  4. Thu., Aug. 12, 2010 10:39 AM    link Balaji . | Edison, NJ

  5. Sat., Aug. 7, 2010 8:05 AM    link Priya J. | Madison, WI

  6. Sat., Aug. 7, 2010 8:00 AM    link Pramod J. | Madison, WI

  7. Fri., Aug. 6, 2010 11:42 AM    link SHWETHA S. | Madison, WI

  8. Fri., Aug. 6, 2010 11:29 AM    link MADHU S. | Madison, WI

    I hope the law makers soon realize that the immigration debate is being hijacked by discussions on illegal immigrants and over looking the law abiding 'Highly skilled" LEGAL immigrants.

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  10. Fri., Aug. 6, 2010 11:06 AM    link Neelima S. | Sun Prairie, WI

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    Exchange the link with endlesswait.com to get more people to sign this petition.

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  18. Tue., Jul. 13, 2010 7:43 PM    link Selvakumar T. | Rocky Hill, CT

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  21. Mon., Jul. 12, 2010 3:52 PM    link Srikanth P. | Fairfax, VA

    We all know how great this country and how easy it is to become part of this system for an immigrant and
    how quickly one can become dependent on it i.e. in other words how difficult it is for one once he is part of this system and spent a few years to move back to a different country (including his country of origin) after living, working, paying taxing, raising his US born children in this country.

    Similar is situation with atleast 500,000 to a million legal residents who are waiting for becoming a permanent resident. Current per country cap, inclusion of dependents in calculation of EB quota, lack of visa recapture has caused severe backlogs making one wait anywhere 5 - 25 years based on country of origin.

    Senator Lofgren in the past had introduced a bill to mitigate the backlog by introduction of VISA recapture bill which didn't
    pass through the senate.

    But now the same thing can achieved under your leadership and guidance through a admin fix process.
    So, I request you to kindly do the admin fix and recapture lost visas and bring relief to a million legally living tax paying "temporary" residents.

    Atleast, let us file Adjustment of Permanant Residence(I 485) application once our Immigrant Petition (I 140) is approved there is no reason to keep us waiting indefinitely till VISA bulletin dates become current.

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  23. Sat., Jul. 10, 2010 10:58 PM    link Babu D. | High Point, NC

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