House is planning to discuss the HR -4241 this Thursday. Houe Bill name is HR - 4241. Senate BIll name is S. 1932.
Businesses are urged to contact their Congressional delegations immediately to introduce amendment in line with the S. 1932, Sections 8001 and 8002.
As the House is about to mark up full house debate of H.R. 4241, the House version of Budget Omnibus Reconciliation bill, people are anxious to learn what process the bills from the Senate and the House will go through as people want to participate in the final legislative process. Unless the a member of the House introduces the Senate immigration bill as an amendment on the floor, it is obvious that the Senate S. 1932 bill and the House H.R. 4241 will go to conference of the two Houses. Next question then is who will be the members of the Conference Committee from each House. This will not be known until the differences in the two bills between the House and the Senate are fixed by the passage of the bills by each House and in each House a motion is taken to send them to the conference. The members of conference committee are not appointed by the Speaker of House and the President of Senate until it gets to this stage. Stay tuned for the development of the budget reconciliation legislative process.
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November 09, 2005
Sub: Requesting amendment in H.R. 4241 to include S. 1932 sections 8001 and 8002
Dear Honorable Congressman,
American businesses and legal immigrants (Information technology professionals, Health care professionals and others) are facing serious crises: “Lengthy Visa Backlogs due to Employment Based Visa retrogression." Immigrant employees cannot change jobs, and U.S. companies cannot hire the right candidates that would have actually been available in the absence of retrogression. The senate has addressed the employment based visa retrogression issue in S. 1932, which aims to reduce U.S. deficits. I am writing to request you to include the S. 1932 sections 8001/8002 as amendments in H.R. 4241; this in effect will generate much larger revenue for the U.S. Govt. and in fact avoid the process of cutting grants/funding for other existing yet useful programs.
Mr. Tom Ridge, ex chief of Homeland Security said in April 14, 2003: "As we secure America from terrorists, we do not want to risk losing the next Enrico Fermi or Albert Einstein…We would be a far poorer nation in many, many ways...."
Highly skilled workers who came to U.S. legally are currently facing lengthy green-card backlogs. If these skilled immigrants are not allowed to adjust their status (which gives them flexibility to change jobs), they will leave and settle in their home countries or in other countries with favorable immigration laws. Other countries will stand to gain from this knowledge asset. U.S. businesses will have to outsource the jobs, and U.S. Govt. will loose the revenue that can be raised by charging high fees for recapturing (sec. 8001 of S.1932) visa numbers.
The Bill S.1932, while creating relief measures, entails following immense advantages:
• Affords flexibility to legal immigrants to change their jobs under AC21 law. Currently due to the retrogression the AC21 law passed by Congress is of no use. Jobs will stay in USA; US corporations will have access to a larger pool of skilled workers in US itself and will no longer have to outsource to other countries.
• Allow those whose labor has been approved to file for adjustment of status even if the dates are not current. This will bring in revenue/485 application fee much earlier.
• By recapturing visa numbers and charging adequate fees for the same, US Govt. will earn tremendous revenues. By excluding dependents from the visa number count, and charging fees for every added dependent, there will be added profit.
On behalf of all other people in a similar situation as myself, I earnestly request you take action at this critical juncture (providing much needed relief to US companies and legal immigrants) by introducing and supporting an amendment in house bill H.R. 4241 that includes the S. 1932 sections 8001 and 8002. This amendment to the HR # 4241 provides a workable solution to truly reduce deficits.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,
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