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    From the Horses Mouth: No Movement in EB-2, EB-3 India for FY 2007

    All, As I just posted in the Outlook FY 2007 thread I had the chance to talk to a State dept official who is involved in setting cutoff dates. Amongst other things this official told me that there will be no movement in EB-2, EB-3 India cutoff dates for the rest of FY 2007 (i.e. at the...
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    Hard Country Limits in Specter-Frist: Backlogs May Increase

    New Public Release document at http://www.immigrationvoice.org/ Send it to your attorney. Register at IV and send a fax to Senators.
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    FBI Name Check Briefing for Congress Staff: March 14

    See http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=321
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    The Data on Immigration Watch: Complete Blackbox

    All, The "Where does the data on Immigration Watch Come From?" question never does get an answer, despite claims that this question has been answered "many times." Read the exchange below, starting from the top.
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    Immigration Voice is For Everyone in EB Greencard Process: All Stages

    I. IV MEMBERS AT EVERY STAGE • We have members at each stage of the process: labor certification backlog, retrogression backlog, USCIS backlog. Some of our most active members have not got their labor certification. • Members who are further along have not forgotten the length of delay and...
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    Immigration Voice is For Everyone in EB Greencard Process: All Stages

    I. IV MEMBERS AT EVERY STAGE • We have members at each stage of the process: labor certification backlog, retrogression backlog, USCIS backlog. Some of our most active members have not got their labor certification. • Members who are further along have not forgotten the length of delay and...
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    Immigration Voice is For Everyone in EB Greencard Process: All Stages

    I. IV MEMBERS AT EVERY STAGE • We have members at each stage of the process: labor certification backlog, retrogression backlog, USCIS backlog. Some of our most active members have not got their labor certification. • Members who are further along have not forgotten the length of delay and...
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    Immigration Voice is for Everyone in EB Greencard Process: All Stages

    I. IV MEMBERS AT EVERY STAGE • We have members at each stage of the process: labor certification backlog, retrogression backlog, USCIS backlog. Some of our most active members have not got their labor certification. • Members who are further along have not forgotten the length of delay and...
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    Immigration Voice Is For Everyone In The EB Greencard Process: All Stages

    I. IV MEMBERS AT EVERY STAGE • We have members at each stage of the process: labor certification backlog, retrogression backlog, USCIS backlog. Some of our most active members have not got their labor certification. • Members who are further along have not forgotten the length of delay and...
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    PACE Act: No Time for Complacency/Rightwing Talkingheads Already Mobilized

    All, Just wanted to say, if you think everything is going to be fine cos PACE has 30 democrat and 30 republican supporters, think again. The right wing has already mobilized its talking heads, look for more stories that discredit the basic premises of PACE and the American Competitiveness...
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    Making Sense of the Newly Released FY 2005 EB Numbers

    All, If you go to Matthew Oh's excellent site (http://www.immigration-law.com/Canada.html) you have surely seen the newly released data on the number of EB and Family greencards issued in FY 2005 [http://travel.state.gov/pdf/FY05tableV.pdf]. There were 242,335 EB visas issued and 222095...
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    Paging Infostarved!

    All, Does anyone have a way of getting in touch with Infostarved? The star of the first Retrogression: Doing the Math thread? The team at Immigration Voice [http://www.immigrationvoice.org/] would love to work with Infostarved. If you are Infostarved or know how to get in touch with...
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    The Lobby That Made Section 8001 of the Budget Reconciliation Bill Happen

    http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/110305/tech.html High-tech industry in high spirits By Jim Snyder High-tech companies could be a big winner in the budget battle, depending on how House and Senate members reconcile their different deficit-reduction plans...
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    Senators Who Voted Yes on Byrd Amendment: Puzzling?

    All, Check out the list of senators who voted yes on the Byrd Amendment. Out of the 14 there are only 3 Republicans and 1 Independent. Wonder if it is worth following up to educate these guys. Or perhaps it is some sort of trade union vote... This pattern is worth keeping in mind for...
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    Screenshot No Longer Shows Case Status?

    All, Impatience got the better of me yesterday and I asked for a screenshot yesterday. Got a reply which had all the usual info EXCEPT case status. Is this what is happening to the rest of you? If so when did this start? Berkeleybee EB-2, PD 1/30/2003 (There are only 4 people...
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    Retrogression & Career Growth

    I am starting this thread to move yet another off topic conversation from the Doing the Math thread. Apparently people involved in this conversation couldn’t figure out how to start a new thread or read their private messages…Sigh. If you want to go off topic please start a new thread. Go to...
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    Per-Country Limits for Employment Categories: The Debate

    I am moving the conversation about per-country limits started in the Lobbying/Identifying the Last Successful Coalition thread to this new thread. It is an inevitable debate, and we might as well hone our arguments. I would encourage you to focus on the issues, and not lose your cool and call...
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    Lobbying/Identifying the Last Successful Coalition

    It seems important to identify the coalition that was successful in getting the H-1B caps raised. Clearly they had the clout and the right strategy figured out. Do we know who (lobbyists and legislators) were involved and how that happened? Some groups that I found were: 1. AILA...
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    Retrogression: Doing the Math

    Rkrishna22 posted on another thread and I replied to his post there before I realized that we have a new place to discuss the retrogression: I did exactly the same sort of calculations. Slightly different assumptions produce slightly different numbers but the big picture is the same --...
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