Anyone knows Bill Gates ? If he speaks out...

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In the past Bill Gates proved to be sympathetic to IT immigrants. This Visa Bulletin has the potential to make many pack bags and go back home and send others to depression.

If someone here knows Microsoft folks who could brief Gates on this October 2005 Visa Bulletin implications and persuade him to speak up publicly about this, perhaps that could help a little bit ? Just a thought.

If you have his e-mail, please send me.
 
Google it. But you may not get to him easily since the anti-spam system and his staff could have filtered it out.
 
Why should Bill Gates and other CxOs worry about the status of people
who are aleady working in this country legally? They would benefit from bonded
labor. It is in their best interest that there are more people in this country working on H1/EAD rather than on GC.
Indians and Chineese have such low self-esteem that most of them will
countine to work as bonded laborers even if PDs retrogressed by 10 or 15 years.
 
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Totally agree with armie. This is a capitalist society and the senate decisions are (mostly) influenced by business lobbying.

How would businesses/economy would benefit if people got their GCs faster? On the contrary, it would benefit them with longer delays.
 
Why should the white people in the US help the black ones in New Orleans during the Katrina incident ? Why should rich countries offer aid to Africa if they have apparently nothing to offer ?

The problem is here power of persuation and public image. If the two examples above have no people protesting and *ASKING* for help, I can guarantee you nobody would ever volunteer to help. At least we need to try. If doesn't work out, OK, but at least we tried and in the process our class may become more visible.

Behaving like losers who do not communicate is just going to sink us further.



avi101 said:
Totally agree with armie. This is a capitalist society and the senate decisions are (mostly) influenced by business lobbying.

How would businesses/economy would benefit if people got their GCs faster? On the contrary, it would benefit them with longer delays.
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dude Marlon

We are all well educated professionals, working with many of best companies in the world drawing high salaries, so we don't need any sympathy from anyone,

First keep up self-esteem and approch law makers with diginity and confidense,

At this time Immigration is very senstive political issue and Bill Gates i'nt any politician.

we need to try our luck with congressmen/senators
 
Why should the white people in the US help the black ones in New Orleans during the Katrina incident ? Why should rich countries offer aid to Africa if they have apparently nothing to offer ?

The problem is here power of persuation and public image. If the two examples above have no people protesting and *ASKING* for help, I can guarantee you nobody would ever volunteer to help. At least we need to try. If doesn't work out, OK, but at least we tried and in the process our class may become more visible.

-- Poor comparison. You cannot compare humanitarian crisis to immigration problems (except in extreme cases e.g. asylees where threat to life and persecution are involved).

Behaving like losers who do not communicate is just going to sink us further.

-- Bill Gates is no saint and there have been rumors of MSFT jobs moving offshore.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/04/2256208&from=rss

H1B affects these companies not GCs. I know companies that have offered their employees, whose visas are expiring, to work at the office overseas and come back again on a fresh H1\L1 after a year.

-- We should all definitely try and be heard. Agreed. Both individually and as a community.
 
-- Poor comparison. You cannot compare humanitarian crisis to immigration problems (except in extreme cases e.g. asylees where threat to life and persecution are involved).
The analogy is related to lack of communication, not related to the nature of the complaint.

Behaving like losers who do not communicate is just going to sink us further.

-- Bill Gates is no saint and there have been rumors of MSFT jobs moving offshore.
No one here is saying Bill Gates is a saint. I am just saying the man has expressed in the past (I read the article myself) he believes the US should make easier for people to immigrate permanently to this country and settle family here as well. In the same article he is smart enough to understand that if you don't allow bright people to come, the advent of offshoring will just increase and people will start opportunities somewhere else. I will simply not look for such article because I have more things to do than arguing about this with you.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/04/2256208&from=rss

H1B affects these companies not GCs. I know companies that have offered their employees, whose visas are expiring, to work at the office overseas and come back again on a fresh H1\L1 after a year.

Read my answer below. In the long term, anyone intelligent knows that if you start offshoring in high scale and allow no bright people to come here, the US would not succeed as a country. Only a very close minded individual can believe that the long term goals to the US would be offshoring and allow no permanent resident to come. Bill Gates can be a lot of you things, but I believe the man is not close minded. If you persuade Bill Gates to speak up, his voice is usually heard by politicians.

-- We should all definitely try and be heard. Agreed. Both individually and as a community.
It seems we should support Sen Cornyn/Kyl immigration bill.
 
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