Movement To Remove Retrogression And Have A Better Life

[Sandeep_N]

There is a clause in the secure america bill for the recapture of unused visas from the previous years. Can this also be included in our draft?

Already there - "Section 601 (d) of S.1033 , the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act (introduced in Senate) recommends increasing the yearly quota to 290,000 and incorporates some visa number recapture from the previous years. This would help in alleviating the problems faced by our employees by making a higher number of visa numbers available. Section 603 (b) also seeks to increase the availability of the visas to the third preference category most affected by retrogression." Can elaborate on this if necessary
Sandeep

[485Nebraska]

Sandeep,
Yes i see it. Sorry I missed it last time.

[kewl]

Saurabh,

Ok, I will do that but if someone not registered to this site cannot update it. Few folks can be lazy to register here and we don't want to miss them. So I don't know which one is good idea:
- to place spreadsheet both places and merge sometime
- place either one of the location

kewl,

Can we propose to the people in the yahoo group to be part of the forum and update the spreadhsheet here, this way we can have a consolidated list of people. I know there are lot of people who are in the yahoo group also and we have close to 50 on our list here.

Thanks
Saurabh

[baby_mde]

I have added mine and my wife details.

[Sandeep_N]

Guys,
Most of you have done a good job spreading the message around. I was wondering if any of the other forums have been covered? (Like murthyforum, immihelp etc which have relatively moderate activity). Can AILA be of any help?
It might be worthwhile to make a list of all threads where we have posted so that we do not reinvent the wheel and different guys post same stuff. (Went to a couple of threads in this forum and saw that srinireddydgl has been very helpfull and has already posted in a lot of them!)
Unitefamilies has posted pamphlets which are being circulated in ethnic grocery stores, places of worship etc. Likewise, it might be good to display the petitions in the local (ethnic) areas with tear off tags giving the address of this thread - might as well get more people to visit threads like this one. Suggestions welcome ...
Sandeep

[kewl]

Good point, Sandeep. Please everyone try to spread our efforts wherever beneficial to us.

By the way, I submitted couple of messages on murthy forum before 2 days back but they never posted it!! Every submission in murthy forum goes through admin who decide whether to post the submission or not. Looks like Ms.Murthy only talks to help immigration community but never does when we are in need or may be they don't want their users to divert to other websites/forums or may be retrogression is good for them!! This is totally in contrast to Mr.Rajiv Khanna who always besides immigration community, always willing to help us and accessible. Rajiv rocks!!

Guys,
Most of you have done a good job spreading the message around. I was wondering if any of the other forums have been covered? (Like murthyforum, immihelp etc which have relatively moderate activity).

[ganeshmathu]

Hi Guys ,

Its great to see you guys coming forward with so much excellent ideas & thoughts. I fully appreciate and support your efforts in making this movement a great success.

Wish us good luck !

[saurabh_tulika]

If anyone has any suggestions on those letters created by me and Sandeep, please do give it. Please update your comments into it. We need to take some action soon on it.

Thanks
Saurabh

[Sandeep_N]

By the way, I submitted couple of messages on murthy forum before 2 days back but they never posted it!! Every submission in murthy forum goes through admin who decide whether to post the submission or not. !

Some months back this was not so "controlled" - now it looks like there is screening of the messages. Maybe we should just ask her support during the chat that she has on Monday.

[jay2005]

I am all for any movement against retrogression.
Case EB2/RIR from Nebraska with PD 9/2004. Stuck at Dallas BEC
jay2005

[rak1974]

COUNT ME IN..I have updated the spreadsheet.

I am have been trying to find out more details about this Bill..when it is scheduled for voting in the senate etc..can someone shed light?

[need_info1]

All,

I updated xls with my information.

GC will be given to all soon ...........

[for2003]

Can anybody send me an inivitation for joining the techworkers group.
my email id is: gidda11@yahoo.com

[ravisurya]

Updated with my info

[josamdee]

should we also consider including Namecheck issues in the draft?

http://immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=180046

[saurabh_tulika]

I know the name check is a big issue at this point of time, but I would recommend or suggest that we should be focussed on the retrogression in this letters and later on move towards the name check issue.
Rest whatever the majority of people want here.

should we also consider including Namecheck issues in the draft?

http://immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=180046

[srinireddydgl]

Yes Major Number Are Effected By Retrogression
And Lets Focus On That

[kewl]

Guys,

Upon my request, GCBy2010 has volunteered to draft a letter, based on 1st draft perpared by Saurabh & Sandeep. I know he has excellent writing skill and I am glad that he is ready to help us in our efforts.

[mastmastana]

[srinireddydgl]

Great Job Gcby2010

The Whole Community Will Appreciate Your Hard Work And Efforts

I Also Like Efforts By Saurabh, Kewl And Others.................................

[r_sada]

http://capwiz.com/aila2/home/
Please go to the above link and contact your congressman and senator of state and pledge your support to
Support the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005, S. 1033/H.R. 2330

Also do the same for the president
You can do 2 things
1.SEND AN EMAIL
2.EXPORT IT AS RTF form(Letter option), and then customize with some personal event/story etc
as it was told by RAJEEV and mail the letters
the addresses and every thing is prepolutated pls take 10 minutes of your time and FLOOD the MAIL BOXES of all these congressman to make them understand the issue.
Please spend atleast 10$ per family
SEND SEPARATE letters as written by you, your wife and your kids explaining the INDIVIDUAL family situations
the framework of the letter is created and so all you have to do is to add a para of your own situation
PLEASE PLEASE DO IT
im attaching a template that i created.

[r_sada]

http://capwiz.com/aila2/home/
Please go to the above link and contact your congressman and senator of state and pledge your support to
Support the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005, S. 1033/H.R. 2330

Also do the same for the president
You can do 2 things
1.SEND AN EMAIL
2.EXPORT IT AS RTF form(Letter option), and then customize with some personal event/story etc
as it was told by RAJEEV and mail the letters
the addresses and every thing is prepolutated pls take 10 minutes of your time and FLOOD the MAIL BOXES of all these congressman to make them understand the issue.
Please spend atleast 10$ per family
SEND SEPARATE letters as written by you, your wife and your kids explaining the INDIVIDUAL family situations
the framework of the letter is created and so all you have to do is to add a para of your own situation
PLEASE PLEASE DO IT
im attaching a template that i created.
/S

[r_sada]

Please also pass the message to pledge the support for the bill via chain emails or group forum posts etc
make srue you ask them to print the letter with some Personal stories
sing it and send it via mail

/S

[weigoodone1]

Updated my info.

[weigoodone1]

[srinireddydgl]

R_sada,
Post It In The Techworkers Group
And Let's Decide On A Letter Which Should Be Short, Simple, Professional And Which Everyone Can Send
I Will After That Make Sure I Sent It To 200 Friends Then They Send It Over To Their Congressman

[Anil_Verma]

Added my info.

[ansi2004]

Although my PD is May 2000, my wife who has never been here is not able to join me through "Following to join" process due to retrogression. Even otherwise, I support this!

Ansi.

[rv1975]

Added my info

[saurabh_tulika]

Dude, this is cool man, Can we use this AILA system to actually send the letter to the Senator, I am going to send one from there system and also take a copy of that and send a printed letter.

Thanks Sandeep_N. Everyone please see if you would like to send the letter to the senator using this system.

Thanks
Saurabh