A great day for Legal Immigrants

Edison

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A great day for Legal Immigrants

Hi Every One,
We, the Core Team of this forum, are pleased to announce the arrival of immigrationportal.org, a new organization to fight for the causes of legal immigrants.
We anticipate our activities to include matters such as working with the United States Congress for improving the immigration laws, working with USCIS for reducing the backlog of all types of immigration applications, working with the state and federal agencies to fight the type of discrimination cases we have seen with New Jersey DMV, etc.. To achieve all these results, we need a strong organization with enough funds so that we can pay for the legal and other organizational expenses.

We believe, one of our first goals should be to hire a full time, professional employee/contractor to work for us. Having a professional person working for us 7/24 will help our cause a great deal. So we ask every one to go to our new website www.immigrationportal.org and donate money for this, your cause. Let us not passively tolerate injustice. We must act.

Let me add a little bit of background to this organization. For the past 9 months, we have been discussing ways to fight the I485 backlogs. About 4 months back, we decided to take a long term approach for this problem and started working towards forming an organization. Rajiv S. Khanna, our host, helped us in registering the organization and he has accepted to be present as a director in the board. The other members on the board of directors are : 140_takes_4ever, ayansgp, dsatish, Edison, frantic, kash777, Kashmir, MrCoolz, rajum, rk4gc, tr22 and yjay. The actual names of these people can be found on the website. All these people have been actively working in the VSC/CSC/NSC/TSC I485 forums for the past year and more. We (the board members) will not take any remuneration and we will not claim any reimbursement for the time we have spent on the activities. We are doing it as a service and what motivates us is our passion and excitement of starting perhaps the first organization to work for the rights of legal immigrants. This organization belongs to all the legal immigrants. The name and the URL of the organization have been licensed from Mr. Khanna at the fee of one dollar ($1.00) per annum. His office is providing the initial facilities such as phone, fax numbers and street address. Note that nobody owns this organization and every year, the board members will be elected by the registered members of this people’s organization.

We are ready to answer any questions. Please visit (y)our website and donate generously. Most of the core team members have donated $200 each, but there are no rules governing how much every one should donate. Please donate according to your wish and keep visiting the new forum for discussions about our activities.
 
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Hi Every One,
Please make this fund collection drive a great success and help us build a great organization for immigrants.
Looking forward to generous contributions from every one here ...
Please post your comments in this thread.
 
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Originally posted by dsatish
Hi Every One,
Please make this fund collection drive a great success and help us build a great organization for immigrants.
Looking forward to generous contributions from every one here ...
Please post your comments in this thread.


Great initiative indeed !!!
Already sent $101 for the noble cause.
 
Thanks

dawnn and vrajbhumi,
Thanks for joining the organization. I request every body else to join this fight by making their contribution TODAY. We are receiving overwhelming response now. The online collection has reached $4000 now. In addition to the online payments, we have collected about $3500 by checks.
For the list of contributors and the latest discussion on fund collection, please visit the following thread :

http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=756136#post756136
 
My friend's contribution

I have sent a check of $50 contributed by my friend Qamar.
 
OK, here we go. Let's start Phase II of our fund collection drive : SEND MASSIVE EMAILS TO YOUR CONTACTS.
I have prepared the text. Please download the document and copy the text and post it in your Email campaign. Let all of you do this immediately and once you do it, please post it here.

Those who have not yet donated, please do so NOW.
 
How about advertising the fund drive in a few targeted places such as slashdot.com?
There are sites that attract huge numbers of IT professionals and among them there are a large number of H1Bs with pending GCs.
At least we should try to submit a story on slashdot.
If you guys think this is a good idea, I could collect some information about it.
 
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Originally posted by ar13
How about advertising the fund drive in a few targeted places such as slashdot.com?
There are sites that attract huge numbers of IT professionals and among them there are a large number of H1Bs with pending GCs.
At least we should try to submit a story on slashdot.
If you guys think this is a good idea, I could collect some information about it.

We planned not to spend a penny for Fund collection drive. But we'll spend for the community efforts like I-485 litigation (Ads to get more support for class action lawsuit).
Anyway, you can collect the Ad details and let us know.

Thanks for your efforts.
 
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In the mean time, how about considering some other ways of getting attention of folks who might me potential donors without spending a dime? At the least we will get attention from like minded folks who might not be aware of it, strengthening our fight.

Here is a thought:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/Googlebombing.asp

We could start with Immigrationportal.com and I would assume some of the folks here have some web sites which can be used. "Immigration" "Green card" could be our key cards.

Here is an example of a result:
Disclaimer: I am not bringing in any politics here, it just so happens that the best examples are all in politics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm

This might be one small attempt but hey, our community itself accumulated in ones and two and now thousands strong!
 
Originally posted by ThelastMile
In the mean time, how about considering some other ways of getting attention of folks who might me potential donors without spending a dime? At the least we will get attention from like minded folks who might not be aware of it, strengthening our fight.

Here is a thought:
http://www.wordspy.com/words/Googlebombing.asp

We could start with Immigrationportal.com and I would assume some of the folks here have some web sites which can be used. "Immigration" "Green card" could be our key cards.

Here is an example of a result:
Disclaimer: I am not bringing in any politics here, it just so happens that the best examples are all in politics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm

This might be one small attempt but hey, our community itself accumulated in ones and two and now thousands strong!

Thanks for the suggestion. Let's explore more about this.
 
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