give it a shot, may be they will try to atleast understand tha problem
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Email Addresses: senator@schumer.senate.gov, russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov, Senator_Kennedy@kennedy.senate.gov , info@kyl.senate.gov, specter@specter.senate.gov , senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov , senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov, chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov, senator@biden.senate.gov
Subject: highly educated, skilled professional; tax-paying, law-abiding legal immigrants seeking help to resolve EB visa retrogression
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YourName
Address
Re.: Help to resolve retrogression on Employment Based immigrant visa categories
Dear Senator,
For many years, people from all over the world pursued the American dream with intense purpose and made America the most productive nation in the world. I have been working for five years as a engineer employed at a successful Medical Laboratory in Birmingham, AL.
I write to you as one of the many law abiding and highly qualified skilled professional workers contributing to the American economy and bringing family values to this great nation. Our concerns regarding employment-based immigration have multiplied overnight due to the the lack of visa numbers for the Employment Based applicants, as outlined on the October 2005 Visa Bulletin published by the US Department of State.
According to the October 2005 Visa Bulletin, the Visa Cutoff Dates are such that we would have to wait for another 6 to 8 years after having waited patiently for 3 years just to complete our labor certifications, what is the first phase of the greencard process. The validity of our H1B visas is 6 years and beyond that we have to depend on expensive yearly visa extensions, besides having severe restrictions such as career stagnation, we can’t visit our home country and often our spouses are not authorized to work. Serious family dissatisfactions occur due to this long greencard application process. Our plight in this condition is beyond imagination and now due to this visa retrogression, it seems endless.
The situation does not seem to have any end in sight if there are no immigration policy changes. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has done and is doing some commendable work in backlog reduction and PERM processing to expedite labor certifications, but this is meaningless if there are no employment based visa numbers available to successfully complete the immigration process.
There are many possible solutions to the problems we face today, such as,
There are many possible solutions to the problems we face today, such as,
(1) Recapturing all the unused Visas for the past 10 years.
(2) Increasing yearly quota of employment based immigrant visas
(3) Removal of AC21 portability rule restrictions to allow us to accept any type of job title or position upon I-140 approval
(5) Counting Immigrant visa per primary applicant only, rather than counting for everyone in family
(6) Making the immigration process independent of employer. Some of these measures are already mentioned in pending “Immigration Reform Bill”.
USA is called the “land of opportunity”. On behalf of all the legal and skilled professionals from around the world, I request that we be given the well-deserved opportunity to file our immigration status in a timely manner by resolving the employment based visa retrogression. I request you to please do whatever is there in your powers to ease out our immigration problems which have caused a great deal of pain and depression to our whole community.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
YourName
Address
News Coverage: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/de3043c0-3...000e2511c8.html(Financial Times)
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pr...1013&ID=5186538 (MSN)
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instructions:
copy and paste all the below email addresses into To or BCC.
copy and paste subject
find and replace yourname by firstName LastName
Address by your Address, you can format adress to break it into different lines if you want
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Email Addresses: senator@schumer.senate.gov, russell_feingold@feingold.senate.gov, Senator_Kennedy@kennedy.senate.gov , info@kyl.senate.gov, specter@specter.senate.gov , senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov , senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov, chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov, senator@biden.senate.gov
Subject: highly educated, skilled professional; tax-paying, law-abiding legal immigrants seeking help to resolve EB visa retrogression
-----------------------message-------------
YourName
Address
Re.: Help to resolve retrogression on Employment Based immigrant visa categories
Dear Senator,
For many years, people from all over the world pursued the American dream with intense purpose and made America the most productive nation in the world. I have been working for five years as a engineer employed at a successful Medical Laboratory in Birmingham, AL.
I write to you as one of the many law abiding and highly qualified skilled professional workers contributing to the American economy and bringing family values to this great nation. Our concerns regarding employment-based immigration have multiplied overnight due to the the lack of visa numbers for the Employment Based applicants, as outlined on the October 2005 Visa Bulletin published by the US Department of State.
According to the October 2005 Visa Bulletin, the Visa Cutoff Dates are such that we would have to wait for another 6 to 8 years after having waited patiently for 3 years just to complete our labor certifications, what is the first phase of the greencard process. The validity of our H1B visas is 6 years and beyond that we have to depend on expensive yearly visa extensions, besides having severe restrictions such as career stagnation, we can’t visit our home country and often our spouses are not authorized to work. Serious family dissatisfactions occur due to this long greencard application process. Our plight in this condition is beyond imagination and now due to this visa retrogression, it seems endless.
The situation does not seem to have any end in sight if there are no immigration policy changes. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has done and is doing some commendable work in backlog reduction and PERM processing to expedite labor certifications, but this is meaningless if there are no employment based visa numbers available to successfully complete the immigration process.
There are many possible solutions to the problems we face today, such as,
There are many possible solutions to the problems we face today, such as,
(1) Recapturing all the unused Visas for the past 10 years.
(2) Increasing yearly quota of employment based immigrant visas
(3) Removal of AC21 portability rule restrictions to allow us to accept any type of job title or position upon I-140 approval
(5) Counting Immigrant visa per primary applicant only, rather than counting for everyone in family
(6) Making the immigration process independent of employer. Some of these measures are already mentioned in pending “Immigration Reform Bill”.
USA is called the “land of opportunity”. On behalf of all the legal and skilled professionals from around the world, I request that we be given the well-deserved opportunity to file our immigration status in a timely manner by resolving the employment based visa retrogression. I request you to please do whatever is there in your powers to ease out our immigration problems which have caused a great deal of pain and depression to our whole community.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
YourName
Address
News Coverage: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/de3043c0-3...000e2511c8.html(Financial Times)
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/pr...1013&ID=5186538 (MSN)
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