Hi Friends,
My apologies for writing something that deviates from the stated goal of this thread.
But what I am writing is a part of
stated goal of each of you: Get GC faster.
By now you must have heard about Immigration Voice, a non-profit organization working to present Congress with legislative and administrative solutions to clean the Green Cards mess.
(
http://www.immigrationvoice.org).
Last weekend I attended their all hands conference call. From that it comes out loud and clear that its a well organized and focused effort working towards alleviating our GC pain.
(ConCall for West Coast members today:
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2280#post2280)
Within two months of founding the organization they have close to 1000 members and have raised about $40000.
This is not some flash in the pan efforts.
They have a very committed core team, teams working on different aspects of organizing and mobilizing the support for EB GC reforms.
The org has contracted a
reputed lobbying firm Quinn Gillespie Associates to garner support for GC issues with lawmakers and the media. It has been producing results. For a sample of the results please read
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=277
The grass root mobilizing effort is also very vibrant. This mail is part of that.
As you would know, the
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman's markup for immigration reform is under discussion by the committee from today. The full immigration reform bill might be tabled in
Senate on 27th March this year.
So you see, we do not have much time left to mobilize people and money.
Hence please acts, and act fast, in your own self interest.
Join IV and contribute money, time and efforts.
Read an average Joe plain financial justification to contribute here:
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2302#post2302
This is the time for us to make the lawmakers and media aware of our existence and the pain.
Thanks,
nviren