Bush push might help us

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long_wait_4_gc

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and here is why...

it is clear that many of the details of the bush policy towards immigration reform still need to be worked out between congress and the whitehouse.

But, that said, Bush is on the record saying that he wants to increase the # of people that get greencards - especially those that get employment based GC's

so lets say that all these illegals become legal with jobs and get into the GC line "behind us" (bush said he wanted to keep it fair especially for all of us that are being honest and follownig the rules.

so this means there will be a huge bunch of people waiting.

Now, it is all about influence and lobby. so if the people behind us have pull/lobby and push to shorten the wait time - that helps us all - doesn't it?

Basically the latino croud and us will be on the same side of the fence wrt adjustment of status..

Here's MSNBC's take on it.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3887721/

"Although these workers would get no advantage over other applicants, an illegal immigrant who tried to apply now would simply be deported.

If permanent residency were not granted before the worker’s term was up — a likely outcome given the long backlog of applicants and the relatively small percentage of applicants who receive green cards every year — the person would have to return home to apply from there.

"
 
don't know if it really helps

latino crowd was with us during Labor cert also. Labor time increased from a few weeks to two years.
Not to say that the optimism is wholly unjustified - but I don't see anything good for us in near term.
 
"As a nation that values immigrants and depends on immigrants, we should have immigration laws that work and make us proud,¡± the president said. ¡°Yet today we do not. Instead we see many employers turning to the illegal labor market. We see millions of hard-working men and women condemned to fear and insecurity in a massive undocumented economy."

"Decent, hard-working people will now be protected by labor laws with the right to change jobs, earn fair wages and enjoy the same working conditions that the law requires for American workers,¡± the president said.


We belong to "Decent, hard-working people", but we are not falling into "workers", it's always tricky.
 
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Don't think it will help us in the short run. Here is the scenario. Congress passes the bill and instead of the estimated number say 1 or 2 million file for this visa. CIS puts everything down because they have to issue these visas right away and 485 and other stuff would get the last priority. By the time congress realizes, gives some amount of funding, CIS hires new people, trains them and they start working on our cases. It would be several years.

My two cents
 
And here is the biggest reason to fear the new law, close to 10 million people will apply for visas! And guess which department processes H1 type petitions? The INS! Being election year and to deal with the flooding of the mail room, the INS will strip every employee who is capable of tearing envelopes and typing on a computer of whatever job they are doing, and set them to deal with the incoming mail. Forget about processing their visa's.

Our AOS applications will be pending a LONG LONG time! I was in queue for the 245(i) life act, and it took me 18 months to clear labor, and I never want to go through that again, where there is no movement for 2 years or more. And this will be 10 times worse than the life act!
 
Originally posted by long_wait_4_gc


so lets say that all these illegals become legal with jobs and get into the GC line "behind us" (bush said he wanted to keep it fair especially for all of us that are being honest and follownig the rules.

so this means there will be a huge bunch of people waiting.

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They will porbably create a new classification for 485

"Employment based adjustment applications for Latino Workers"

And latinos will be give priority and we will still be in the same que and nobody would give a damn.
 
My 2c

Here is the problem:

Based on the past in INS view approving I-485s can not be priority as people with pending I-485s can travel using APs and work using EADs. So any time any load increase on any other type of applications (let it be H1s, EADs, Special Registration etc.) the first one to suffer is I-485 applicants. Now if because of this if they want to give GCs to farm workers then it will increase the load (H1s, EADs, APs what ever) so in the short run I-485 applicants will suffer.

The only positive thing I can think of is probably after some time there will be too many people waiting for I-485s and it will be considerably a big number and politicians may be interested to address it.

-PCee
 
According to Project Kashmir,
the CSC issued about 1.3 million WAC numbers per year in FY2002 and FY2003,
and the number of I-485 cases is only 36,000 per year.
 
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