Affected by Priority Date Retrogression ??
Sep 22nd 2005, 5:13 pm
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Affected by Priority Date Retrogression ??
As all of you must be aware, we are having major retrogression problem
with the priority dates for EB1, EB2, EB3 which implies that it could
take on an average 6 plus years to get our green cards! If you are in
any way affected due to this please join this egroup.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers/ It is has around 2000
members and is a very well monitored group.
Thanks,
QGoogle
with the priority dates for EB1, EB2, EB3 which implies that it could
take on an average 6 plus years to get our green cards! If you are in
any way affected due to this please join this egroup.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers/ It is has around 2000
members and is a very well monitored group.
Thanks,
QGoogle
Sep 23rd 2005, 6:48 pm
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Re: Affected by Priority Date Retrogression ??
Hi,
Some comments from the people who are hit by retrogression
-Firstly, it is NOT OUR FAULT that there are cases pending from '98.
It is USCIS's fault - a fact well known by administrators and
lawmakers. The current policy is to make people who have filed after
Jan '98 wait as the USCIS goofed up. This is what is wrong - you are
punishing one for another's fault.
-The USCIS did not do its job - it also DID NOT USE UP ALL THE
AVAILABLE VISAS. These Visas are sitting there from 2001 to 2005
waiting for congressional approval. The visas before this have been
used up due to Congressional Action (American Competitiveness Act)
This is what we are asking - get to work and approve those visas. The
recapturable number in early 2005 was approximately 110k visas
-Due to the goof up, the dates have gone back to '98. These dates ARE
A JOKE as the actual employment visas are for 6 years max at a
stretch. So there is a great scope for fraud with Labor
Certifications being SOLD AND BARTERED. This gives unfair advantage
to some guys and gives scope for fraud- this is what we are
protesting against.
-What made lawmakers say that there should be a per country limit for
employment visas? (Currently at 7%) The main reason was
monopolization by certain ethnic communities. It is reasonable to
impose this but then we also ask why we and our employers should be
punished for us being born in certain countries. Hence we ask for
increase in the limits of these to at least 10% as proposed by the
McCain Bill.
-What is the number of applications pending and what is the number of
applicants before '98? Before '99? Before '00 etc etc? No one knows
as this is a closely held secret. If there is nothing wrong why does
USCIS not tell? The movement in jumps and almost nothings makes one
suspicious as to what the heck is going on.
-The random adjudication last year approved cases submitted just a
year back. In 2004 guys were getting visas if they had applied even
in 2003. This depleted the available visa number pool. If those
mistakes ate up the visa numbers whose fault is it?
-When Immigration laws stipulate that each quarter has to have
certain number of visas, how did it become "unavailable" in the last
quarter of 2005? Maybe because USCIS estimate in the previous quarter
was wrong?!
-There are 140k visas available -same as there has been all this
while. So why are we complaining now- do we want to flood the U.S.
with immigrants? The reason is that most of our applications have
determined that there are employers willing to take us. They have
also established that the skill set is not available in the U.S. So
what are the employers supposed to do now? The INA was made some time
back - the need for skilled professionals has changed. Bear in mind
that these visas bring "competent" people who are already hitting the
ground running by paying taxes. So the need is there, the opportunity
is there - so what is the problem? What happened to the President's
claim of matching every willing employee with every willing employer?
There should be an increase in this quota for the U.S. to progress.
Again almost all the pending bills are also pointing that the current
immigration laws are out of tune with reality. If the congress can
give amnesty to illegal immigrants, don't they atleast want to hasten
the immigration of highly educated legal tax-paying workforce?
-The Congress passed a legislation giving 50k special numbers to
nurses and physical therapists which they can recapture from the
unused employment visa numbers between 2001 and 2004. The problem is
that the State Department uses regular visa EB-3 quota numbers before
they deplete the recapture numbers for the nurses and physical
therapists.
To highlight these issues, we are all joining hands at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers so as to fecilitate some
legistation (S.1033 - McCain-Kennedy bill)
Please join and lend us your support
Thanks
SN
Some comments from the people who are hit by retrogression
-Firstly, it is NOT OUR FAULT that there are cases pending from '98.
It is USCIS's fault - a fact well known by administrators and
lawmakers. The current policy is to make people who have filed after
Jan '98 wait as the USCIS goofed up. This is what is wrong - you are
punishing one for another's fault.
-The USCIS did not do its job - it also DID NOT USE UP ALL THE
AVAILABLE VISAS. These Visas are sitting there from 2001 to 2005
waiting for congressional approval. The visas before this have been
used up due to Congressional Action (American Competitiveness Act)
This is what we are asking - get to work and approve those visas. The
recapturable number in early 2005 was approximately 110k visas
-Due to the goof up, the dates have gone back to '98. These dates ARE
A JOKE as the actual employment visas are for 6 years max at a
stretch. So there is a great scope for fraud with Labor
Certifications being SOLD AND BARTERED. This gives unfair advantage
to some guys and gives scope for fraud- this is what we are
protesting against.
-What made lawmakers say that there should be a per country limit for
employment visas? (Currently at 7%) The main reason was
monopolization by certain ethnic communities. It is reasonable to
impose this but then we also ask why we and our employers should be
punished for us being born in certain countries. Hence we ask for
increase in the limits of these to at least 10% as proposed by the
McCain Bill.
-What is the number of applications pending and what is the number of
applicants before '98? Before '99? Before '00 etc etc? No one knows
as this is a closely held secret. If there is nothing wrong why does
USCIS not tell? The movement in jumps and almost nothings makes one
suspicious as to what the heck is going on.
-The random adjudication last year approved cases submitted just a
year back. In 2004 guys were getting visas if they had applied even
in 2003. This depleted the available visa number pool. If those
mistakes ate up the visa numbers whose fault is it?
-When Immigration laws stipulate that each quarter has to have
certain number of visas, how did it become "unavailable" in the last
quarter of 2005? Maybe because USCIS estimate in the previous quarter
was wrong?!
-There are 140k visas available -same as there has been all this
while. So why are we complaining now- do we want to flood the U.S.
with immigrants? The reason is that most of our applications have
determined that there are employers willing to take us. They have
also established that the skill set is not available in the U.S. So
what are the employers supposed to do now? The INA was made some time
back - the need for skilled professionals has changed. Bear in mind
that these visas bring "competent" people who are already hitting the
ground running by paying taxes. So the need is there, the opportunity
is there - so what is the problem? What happened to the President's
claim of matching every willing employee with every willing employer?
There should be an increase in this quota for the U.S. to progress.
Again almost all the pending bills are also pointing that the current
immigration laws are out of tune with reality. If the congress can
give amnesty to illegal immigrants, don't they atleast want to hasten
the immigration of highly educated legal tax-paying workforce?
-The Congress passed a legislation giving 50k special numbers to
nurses and physical therapists which they can recapture from the
unused employment visa numbers between 2001 and 2004. The problem is
that the State Department uses regular visa EB-3 quota numbers before
they deplete the recapture numbers for the nurses and physical
therapists.
To highlight these issues, we are all joining hands at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers so as to fecilitate some
legistation (S.1033 - McCain-Kennedy bill)
Please join and lend us your support
Thanks
SN
