Support I140 EAD and AOS for Highly Skilled Immigrants
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Orlando, FL signed.
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Hoboken, NJ writes:
This will greatly benefit the US economy and create a healthier labor market, not to mention reducing uncertainty for many hard working families. These families can then plan long term like buying a home.May 27th, 2015Someone from Henrico, VA signed.
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May 27th, 2015Someone from San Ramon, CA writes:
Please clear backlogs for EB categories.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2015Someone from Alpharetta, GA writes:
Please remove backlogs for EB categoryREPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from West Columbia, SC writes:
Dr. President, High-skilled legal immigrants and their family are suffering everyday due to huge backogs in available visas in EB category. We rise everyday in the hope that something will change. We fear investing in this nation and travelling out of nation due to complexities involved. And this goes on for more than a decade for some. A decade is a very long time to leave a half full life. Pls. give us the confidence to stay, invest and travel while we wait for the greencard. Please pass this. Thank you!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2015Someone from Columbia, SC writes:
USA is known for land of opportunity & restricting legal employees for so many years feel them deprived for various opportunities taking into consideration legal formalities & time endowed. We Dream, We Hope, We Love this country & want to give our best for the betterment of the community. You have started this action in Nov?2014 & would like to see getting this settled to avoid any further delays ? Hope for the best !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Irving, TX writes:
Allow Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and USCIS to receive application for Adjustment of Status with an approved I-140 immigrant petition Issue: There were many steps taken under American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21 Act) to identify and help long delayed applicants (waiting for more than six months) for Adjustment of Status (AOS) i.e. Form I-485. What was and is continually ignored is the fact that even before an immigrant is eligible to file for AOS, he/she has to wait for decades for an immigrant visa number to become available, simply because of the country of birth. During that multi-decade period the employee/immigrant has to stay tied to the same employer or restart their Green Card application if they change jobs or sometimes even when they get promoted with the same employer. At the very least this causes many lost opportunities for career advancements for a young and motivated immigrant and possible exploitation by some unscrupulous employers. Solution: An application for Employment Authorization Document (EAD) i.e. Form I-765 can be file concurrently with the AOS application and can give the employee/immigrant freedom to change jobs or department or pursue other career advancement opportunities freely. Current title 8 U.S.C. 1255(a) (3) states that a nonimmigrant?s adjustment of status to a permanent resident can only happen if an immigrant visa is immediately available to him at the time his application is filed. This, however, does not prevent the administration from ?accepting and holding? the AOS application until an immigrant visa number becomes available at which time the applicant can resubmit the required forms and most recent biometric information. The EAD application that would be submitted with the AOS application can and is processed separately, thus giving the immigrant much needed relief during the multi-decade wait period. This fix has already been discussed by the agencies in the past and has also been part of several separate bills passed in the Senate and the House. In 2009 USCIS expressed its intention to draft a regulation that would have permitted a pre-registration structure where an application and documentation could be filed at a point prior to the time a priority date is current. (See ?Preference Alien Registration of Intention to Apply for Adjustment of Status; Pre-Filing of Certain Applications, DHS Unified Agenda, May 11, 2009). In 2013, both the immigration reform bill (S. 744) passed by the Senate and the high-skilled immigration reform bill (H.R. 2131) passed by the House Judiciary Committee included provisions that would have had a similar effect. Currently per USCIS 8 C.F.R. 245.1, an alien cannot submit an application for adjustment of status until an immigrant visa is available. BUT this is not required by existing laws. Additionally, Section 8 U.S.C. 1255 (a) specifically grants Attorney General the discretion and authority to prescribe rREPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Irving, TX writes:
Dear President/Congress /Senate I am writing this letter to bring to your attention the plight of hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants who request you to makes reforms to the immigration system which is completely broken and is particularly unfair to legal, tax-paying, law-abiding immigrants, who have been waiting in line for many years. We, legal immigrants, go through a circuitous immigration route that does not reward our hard work and creativity. Most of us were educated in the United States, have established our families here and call United States our home. Many of our children are born and raised here and call this great nation their home. Our employers have applied for our permanent residency for the sole purpose of retaining us as full time long term employees but because of a broken immigration system, we face an ?artificial barrier? called green card backlog before clearing which our application cannot be processed. Many have been waiting in this line for more than 20 years. Some may have lost interest in becoming Americans, leaving this country to create businesses that will compete with America and create jobs in other countries like Canada and Australia. This is not a system that currently welcomes the best and the brightest but we have hope. We have thus decided that it is time for us to take this initiative and bring our plight to your attention and we need your help. Here we have identified two issues and potential recommendations that you and your agencies can study and, hopefully, use your executive powers to deliver us from this excruciatingly long wait and unending uncertainty. Action Item # 1 Elimination of Dependents from Employment‐Based Count. Issue: An argument has been presented over and over again as to how majority of the employment based immigration visas end up going to family members of the primary applicants. Per some sources, in 2000 59% of the EB-1 immigrant visas went to the family members of the primary applicants and the number rose to 66% in 2012. Looking at the overall numbers, out of the 140,000 employment-based green cards annually only about 65,000 go to the principals; the remainder go to dependents. This is one of the main causes of the decades long wait periods for an immigrant visa for thousands of legal immigrants. Solution: A solution to this has been proposed by various groups including Immigration Innovation Act of 2013 proposed by a bipartisan group of Representative Hatch, Klobuchar, Rubio and Coons. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.) talked about the same solution in a recent discussion. The solution is simple and elegant and it involves either counting members of the same family as one unit towards the annual immigrant visa cap or completely exempting dependents of employment-based immigrant visa recipients from the employment-based green card cap. Examining INA Section 203(d), there is nothing that explicitly authorizes or mandates the counting ofREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2015Someone from Ashburn, VA signed.
May 27th, 2015Someone from Atlanta, GA writes:
This is going to make Land of Free a true Land of free for everyone.. allowing us to make a positive career move when needed to do something bigger and better every year of our life... !! This is much needed reformation..!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Topeka, KS writes:
Please pass on the I140 EAD for L1 visa holders too.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Glen Allen, VA writes:
This would reduce cost of the manpower, make right kind of manpower available for needy employers and will also relieve the hardship the professionals who contribute to the taxes and the eventually benefit US EconomyREPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2015Someone from Walpole, MA writes:
Please pass I140 EAD as soon as possible. America deserve to have fair job market.REPORT COMMENTS
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