Oppose HR 3012 and its companion s-1857
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Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Spring Valley, NY writes:
Please do not allow to change law that would put the entire world waiters on disadvantage adding years of wait to them, while allowing India and China to take 90 % of green cards. Diversified workforce from the entire world is one of the reasons the U.S. is an exceptional country and that should remain as is. Thank you. -
Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Tracy, CA writes:
If this bill passes, only two countries- India and China will benefit. This will seriously limit and discourage other bright talents from rest of the world to come to US.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Canyon Country, CA writes:
This bill will only ensure that India and China dominate the immigration system going forward.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Middle Village, NY signed.
Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Austin, TX writes:
Equal opportunity is all we ask for, all US should offer!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Latham, NY signed.
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Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Wichita, KS writes:
This bill is unfair as each country is getting 7% of equal visas and by spill over rule india and china are getting more than that.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
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Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from College Station, TX signed.
Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from College Station, TX writes:
The bill is retroactive to October, 2011; in the transitional period of 3 years of implementation effective this fiscal year, the bill provides worldwide applicants along with those from Mexico and Philippines a merely 15% reserved visas. But the fiscal year has already started, and by the time the bill becomes a law, that reserve will be completely consumed, which means- for the rest of this fiscal year, these categories will have no available visas at all. This would inevitably send a wrong message to the employers. Besides, should we change rules in the middle of the game? While this bill asks for fundamental changes in the Employment Based visa processing, there was not given any time to study the impact of the bill, nor time to draft and implement new guidance and regulations for immigration adjudicators. Such immediate implementation without time to put into place the detailed regulations necessary to ensure a smooth transition will likely lead to chaos for some time to come. The proponents are arguing that at the current rate, EB-3 India would suffer a 70 years waiting period, which is entirely false, and cleverly hides the current spillover rules. According to the spillover rule, any unused visas used by EB2 category would fall vertically to EB3 category. At the moment, the oldest applications of EB2 category (mostly Indians) are enjoying the spillovers (about 15% of all visa) from EB1 and EB5 and are moving at a very fast pace. At this rate they will soon reach the cutoff dates of all other countries, and old applications under EB3 category will be qualified to receive them. This will drastically reduce the backlogs waiting time by several years. Right now EB3 India has a 9 years waiting period, and once the above scenario takes place, we can easily expect 3 to 4 years of reduction in their waiting time. On the contrary, if the bill passes as proposed it will unfairly impose a 10-12 year waiting period to all countries regardless of their origins and contribution towards the backlog. The bill states that there is a huge backlog for India and China in immigration because they are allotted only 7% of the available visas for a given year, when in fact numbers from the Department of Homeland Security show that due to the spillover rule, in year 2010 some 30% of the total visas went to applicants from India and China- and all other countries never actually got their fare share. Do we really want to create an employment-based green card system that only works for India and China? Should discrimination against an educated workforce from these two countries be shelved only to discriminate against no less talented professionals from everywhere else?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from College Station, TX signed.
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Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from New York, NY signed.
Dec 3rd, 2011Someone from Milwaukee, WI writes:
This bill is not a small technical fix. It is a major change in US immigration policy. Do not rush it through the senate.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Houston, TX writes:
I have waited 6 years to get current, and now that my turn is 6 weeks away, I am told I must wait another 3 years so a flooding of immigrants from some oversubscribed country is cleared. This is injustice. If such a measure must be taken, it should be slower and not retroactive.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from New York, NY writes:
HR3012 will result in allocating more than 85% of annual immigration quota to Indians who compete directly with Americans for local IT jobs. It doesn't make sense to let this bill pass through and it is definitely not in Americans' best interestREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2011Someone from Lake Forest, IL writes:
HR3012 will hurt American IT workers most. Most Indian immigrants are mainly IT workers and once they get green cards, they can leave their sponsoring company and go compete with US citizens without any limitation in IT industry. Then these IT firms will need to bring in more alien IT workers from India to fill these spots.REPORT COMMENTS
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