Dear Sir/ Madam,
I am writing to you to express my deepest concern about unfairness of the action of Department of States to redistribute the unused numbers in a particular Employment preference category.
Recently released April 2008 visa bulletin mentioned: "Section 202(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides that if total demand will be insufficient to use all available numbers in a particular Employment preference category in a calendar quarter, then the unused numbers may be made available without regard to the annual “per-country” limit. It has been determined that based on the current level of demand being received, primarily by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices, there would be otherwise unused numbers in the Employment Second preference category. As a result, numbers have once again become available to the India Employment Second preference category. The rate of number use in the Employment Second preference category will continue to be monitored, and it may be necessary to make adjustments should the level of demand increase substantially."
I am strongly concerned why these potentially unused numbers from world-wide Employment Second preference category are made only available to one country rather than all countries, whose cutoff dates are not current, such as China, whose cutoff date is Dec, 2003. To me, this is an issue of discrimination and unfairness to all the hardworking taxpayers from other countries including China. As immigrants from China, we hold nothing against immigrants from India, but would like to request equal treatment based on transparent immigration policies. If immigrants from India can be granted to have visa numbers in excess of the annual limit, then immigrants from China and all other countries should all be granted this treatment.
Moreover, data from Homeland Security year book (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/yearbook.shtm) showed that in 2006, based on Employment, compare to 17,169 India people, which is far more than the capped 7% of all the available visas per country annually, only 9,484 Chinese people got Green Card, even less than the number (10886) of Korea people, who are not suffered by the limited available visa number.
Equality is one of the guiding principles based on which this great nation was founded and the principle of no discrimination is universally accepted by almost all part of the United States. I hope the United States government could follow these principles and show that it is clear of any discriminatory acts by revising bulletin so that it does not contain any element could become under the scrutiny of justice for favoring one country over others.
Best Regards,