Recent content by otimm

Some polititians and commentators say that the immigration reform has a good chance of being signed into law by the end of the year, and perhaps even before the August vacation. In the current form, the bill will let some permanent residents become naturalized after 3 years instead of 5...

Jackolantern, Any progress there?

I wanted to point out that most F-1 and J-1 holders have to file as residents for tax purposes. The new bill is supposed to "staple GCs" to certain qualified new graduates, so it's probably not in the spirit of the reform to exclude students and scholars. By the way, it's my understanding...

Moderators: did the first message get removed? I made an edit linking to the updated petition text, and now the original is gone.

Thanks for the suggestions. You're probably right. Here's an updated version. Anyways, I probably shouldn't the one to upload this petition. The petition is "invisible" until it gets 150 signatures, after which it would be 1 of only about 10 immigration-related petitions on the White...

I'm open to suggestions. Do you mind explaining why you feel that this is too generous? The intent of the 5-year waiting period was, presumably, to Americanize the immigrant, and see if he can obey the laws here. Someone who did part of his time in a non-immigrant status in fact had to comply...

There is no reason to support just one petition. I agree in spirit with rewarding English proficiency, although English is already required for naturalization, and adding another "fluency" test may be controversial. I was looking for suggestions regarding the text of the petition and ideas...