给所有关心绿卡申请者 (2)：
请大家给当地媒体和议员写信或发电子邮件,建议增加绿卡名额,减少排期.这样做可以使:
准备申请者, 可以早日申请;
正在申请者, 可以早日拿到绿卡;
已经有绿卡的,使你们后继者少受或免受你们曾受的痛苦;
律师们,早办案,多办案.
想一想,中秋佳节时,多少人因为没有绿卡,不能回国看望年迈的父母,不能护养送回国的婴孩,夫妻分离,更有多少家庭支离破碎.
心动不如行动！如果受害者不来呼吁,不来行动,谁来???谁会!!!
建议大家多多转贴,呼吁律师们加入!
Let’s have our voice.
Let’s make some noise.
I attach a sample letter to local media or congressman/senator from immigration.com
Help us live with Dignity
Dear Madam,
I want to draw your attention to the plight of 100s of 1000s of H1B workers and their families. With the current Backlogs for foreign labor certifications at the department of Labor and with the set of rules that were existing or came in effect in past 2-3 years our life has become miserable. I want to draw you attention on some particular rules that have affected us adversely.
1) Discontinuing of Stamping of visas in the U.S. by the State department. Now we live in the country without any Visa’s on our passport and do not travel abroad and we restrain from getting it stamped in our home countries as most of the embassies are having backlog of 4-5 months.
Situation as stated United States Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, VISA BULLETIN Number 86 Volume VIII, Washington, D.C. VISA BULLETIN FOR OCTOBER 2005
These provisions apply at present to the following oversubscribed chargeability areas: CHINA-mainland born, INDIA, MEXICO, and PHILIPPINES. On the chart below, the listing of a date for any class indicates that the class is oversubscribed (see paragraph 1); "C" means current, i.e., numbers are available for all qualified applicants; and "U" means unavailable, i.e., no numbers are available. (NOTE: Numbers are available only for applicants whose priority date is earlier than the cut-off date listed below.)
All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed CHINA-mainland born INDIA MEXICO PHILIP-PINES
Family
1st 22APR01 22APR01 22APR01 01JAN93 22MAY91
2A* 01NOV01 01NOV01 01NOV01 01OCT98 01NOV01
2B 22APR96 22APR96 22APR96 01DEC91 22APR96
3rd 15APR98 15APR98 15APR98 01JAN93 08NOV90
4th 01FEB94 01FEB94 01AUG93 01FEB91 01MAY83
*NOTE: For October, 2A numbers EXEMPT from per-country limit are available to applicants from all countries with priority dates earlier than 01OCT98. 2A numbers SUBJECT to per-country limit are available to applicants chargeable to all countries EXCEPT MEXICO with priority dates beginning 01OCT98 and earlier than 01NOV01. (All 2A numbers provided for MEXICO are exempt from the per-country limit; there are no 2A numbers for MEXICO subject to per-country limit.)
All Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed CH IN ME PH
Employment-Based
1st C 01JAN00 01AUG02 C C
2nd C 01MAY00 01NOV99 C C
3rd 01MAR01 01MAY00 01JAN98 01JAN01 01MAR01
Schedule A Workers C C C C C
Other Workers 01OCT00 01OCT00 01OCT00 01OCT00 01OCT00
4th C C C C C
Certain Religious Workers C C C C C
5th C C C C C
Targeted Employment Areas/Regional Centers C C C C C
2) Backlog centers to clear the foreign Labors. These centers were created about 20 months ago. We still don’t know when we are going to get our Labor Certifications.
3) H1B visas for 1 year after one complete 6 years.
4) Most states are giving driver’s license up to the expiry of the Visa.
I want to suggest few steps which could make our life better.
1) Make the Green Card process portable after 2 years have past when the green card process started, beginning the labor certification. This is helpful as in the current scenario with Labor certification taking endless time and priority dates of the green card Visas being retrogressed we are stuck with one employer endlessly, while the employer can end the employment anytime. Say I stayed with the employer for 7 years and just 1 month before I was to get my green card my employer lays me off. I get nothing.
2) Give H1B extensions for 3 years after 2 years have past when the green card process started, beginning the labor certification. Irrespective of number of years a person has lived in the country on H1B. This is helpful because Labor certification has got into an endless loop and priority Dates have been retrogressed grossly worldwide. After completion of 6 years on H1B we get just 1 year extensions. It makes things so difficult, as we are ready for another extension as soon as the current extension comes in. We can’t get it stamped on the passport, we can’t travel. We have to run for Driver’s license every year. It’s a vicious circle.
3) Restart stamping of Visas in U.S. The reason giving by the state department for discontinuing it was they wanted the finger printing of all the foreigner’s in the U.S. but that could be achieved by asking the Visa applicant to get the finger printing done at the local police station.