Please refer to http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16506
We are undertaking a massive letter campaign, please participate and show your support
Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to get administrative
relief for our community. We have had several fruitful meeting with
the administration in 2007, some of these meetings were scheduled in
September, November and then in December. In these meetings, we were
able to convince the administration about the implication and hardship
due to current broken system. Since Congress has not been able to
address our issues in 2006-07, we were successful in creating a case
for administrative fixes that would give much needed interim relief to
EB community. These meetings helped us start a conversation on
possible administrative fixes like 3 year EAD-AP, clearly defining
"same or similar" if AC-21 is invoked, and we are hearing favorable
feedback.
Due to lack of action on legislative front our community's patience is
running out and we want some relief urgently to get out of
probationary status. We are thus starting this nationwide campaign
that will help our advocacy efforts and get administration to act
quickly. There are several components to this campaign.
1) Support from lawmaker offices: We urge all our members to meet
their lawmaker offices and get them to write to The President in
support of administrative fixes and urging for an immediate
administrative relief. The template of the letter is attached. Letters
from lawmaker offices to administration get far more attention as
compared to anybody else writing the same letter. The template of the
letter is posted below. Please request lawmakers to give you a copy of
the letter or lawmakers could copy IV on their letter to The
President.
2) Support from employers: We urge all members to approach their
employer and have them send a letter to The President expressing
support for our administrative fixes and appealing for an immediate
relief. The template of the letter is attached below. Please request
your employer to give you copy iof the letter so that you could
provide IV with the copy of the letter.
3) Plea from our community: We urge all our members to write
personalized letters to The President directly and convey their
plight. If you would like to write your own personalized letter,
please do so with your own story. Make sure to stick to the
administrative fixes we have listed in the letter template and how
these fixes could help you and your family. Please put your name and
address in your letter. Anonymous letters will not be delivered and
will be discarded.
We request that you create 2 copies of your letter. One copy should be
posted to The President and the second copy should be sent to
Immigration Voice mailbox address at -
Immigration Voice
P O Box 1372
Arcadia, CA 91077-1372
The deadline for receiving all the letters is 9th February 2008. Our
plan is to collect thousands of letters that we will also receive in
IV mailbox and deliver them, along with the kletters from employers
and lawmakers across the country, during our meeting with the
administration. We believe that this will make a necessary impact to
strengthen our case and gather the necessary political will required
for administrative fixes. We will also try to get media coverage for
this campaign and draw national attention.
Please inform all your friends stuck in greencard retrogression and
have them participate in this effort. Please post information about
this campaign and link to this thread to as many sites, blogs you can
so that we can get extraordinary scale of participation. The success
of this effort will depend on the collective sincerity of the entire
EB community to get letters from lawmakers, employers and members of
the community. Immigration voice is counting on each and every member
and it is in up to each member to make this campaign a success and
help us to improve our and our families' lives.
Letter Template:
We are undertaking a massive letter campaign, please participate and show your support
Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to get administrative
relief for our community. We have had several fruitful meeting with
the administration in 2007, some of these meetings were scheduled in
September, November and then in December. In these meetings, we were
able to convince the administration about the implication and hardship
due to current broken system. Since Congress has not been able to
address our issues in 2006-07, we were successful in creating a case
for administrative fixes that would give much needed interim relief to
EB community. These meetings helped us start a conversation on
possible administrative fixes like 3 year EAD-AP, clearly defining
"same or similar" if AC-21 is invoked, and we are hearing favorable
feedback.
Due to lack of action on legislative front our community's patience is
running out and we want some relief urgently to get out of
probationary status. We are thus starting this nationwide campaign
that will help our advocacy efforts and get administration to act
quickly. There are several components to this campaign.
1) Support from lawmaker offices: We urge all our members to meet
their lawmaker offices and get them to write to The President in
support of administrative fixes and urging for an immediate
administrative relief. The template of the letter is attached. Letters
from lawmaker offices to administration get far more attention as
compared to anybody else writing the same letter. The template of the
letter is posted below. Please request lawmakers to give you a copy of
the letter or lawmakers could copy IV on their letter to The
President.
2) Support from employers: We urge all members to approach their
employer and have them send a letter to The President expressing
support for our administrative fixes and appealing for an immediate
relief. The template of the letter is attached below. Please request
your employer to give you copy iof the letter so that you could
provide IV with the copy of the letter.
3) Plea from our community: We urge all our members to write
personalized letters to The President directly and convey their
plight. If you would like to write your own personalized letter,
please do so with your own story. Make sure to stick to the
administrative fixes we have listed in the letter template and how
these fixes could help you and your family. Please put your name and
address in your letter. Anonymous letters will not be delivered and
will be discarded.
We request that you create 2 copies of your letter. One copy should be
posted to The President and the second copy should be sent to
Immigration Voice mailbox address at -
Immigration Voice
P O Box 1372
Arcadia, CA 91077-1372
The deadline for receiving all the letters is 9th February 2008. Our
plan is to collect thousands of letters that we will also receive in
IV mailbox and deliver them, along with the kletters from employers
and lawmakers across the country, during our meeting with the
administration. We believe that this will make a necessary impact to
strengthen our case and gather the necessary political will required
for administrative fixes. We will also try to get media coverage for
this campaign and draw national attention.
Please inform all your friends stuck in greencard retrogression and
have them participate in this effort. Please post information about
this campaign and link to this thread to as many sites, blogs you can
so that we can get extraordinary scale of participation. The success
of this effort will depend on the collective sincerity of the entire
EB community to get letters from lawmakers, employers and members of
the community. Immigration voice is counting on each and every member
and it is in up to each member to make this campaign a success and
help us to improve our and our families' lives.
Letter Template: