eromero said:
Would not be better to request a law that make us citizens, see we are asking to speed up a GC process and then still wait 4 more years to be a citizen, citizenship should be the goal.!
I think we should propose a law legal EBxs and due to the long waiting time period (labor,retrogression,etc) we should get the citizenship and bypass the GC plastic (we are already inmerse in the culture,follow the law, pay taxes..blah blah blah). Kind of retribution for the long wait.
thx
i would not like to answer this here as this off topic but this is like reinventing the wheel when we have the car. why do u want to start afresh with a new pretext when we have our points available in the bill to be discussed in near future.
so guys pl send the emails, I am posting one sample email text here from another guy in another forum.
SUB : Please prioritize LEGAL (NOT ILLEGAL) immigrant's immigration reform
MESSAGE : (Note CAPS on LEGAL IMMIGRANT)
Dear Senator:
I would like to highlight few names such as Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Andrew Carnegie, Ramani Ayer (Chairman and CEO of Hartford, a $18 billion company), Alain Belda (Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, a $21.5 billion company), Sergey Brin (Co-founder of Google), Andy Grove (Founder and Chairman of Intel), E. Neville Isdell (Chairman and CEO of Coca Cola), Vinod Khosala (co-founder of Sun Microsystems, a $11.4 billions company), Henry Mckinnell (Chairman and CEO of Pfizer), Pierre Omidyar (Founder and Chairman of e-bay), and list can endlessly stretch to thousands of persons!
One common factor among these great personalities is that they all are foreign born skilled immigrants who set new socio-economical mile stone of the United States and made the great nation most competitive in the world.
The United States has a long history of welcoming LEGAL immigrants to its shores. From the beginning, the foreign-born high skilled LEGAL immigrants have made significant contributions to virtually every aspect of American society. Highly educated and entrepreneurial LEGAL immigrants in particular, have helped build an economy that is the envy of the world. They have come to America seeking opportunity, and have left their mark by building businesses, making advances in science, medicine and technology, and enhancing American culture and quality of life. These contributions drive economic growth and job creation, and help keep America competitive.
Current U.S. immigration policies on LEGAL immigrants discourage many highly educated foreign professionals from coming to this country and staying here permanently. Thousands of high skilled LEGAL immigrants are struck in deadly backlog of employment based green card at various stages due to insufficient visa numbers, pre-country quota, and inefficiency of DOL/USCIS. It is difficult for US companies, educational and research institutions, and medical facilities to bring valuable talent to America. By making it more difficult for many of the brightest minds in the world to come to this country and stay here permanently, United States is endangering the long-term economic future. While national security is of the utmost importance, the United States Congress must immediately address its employment based LEGAL immigration policies to ensure that America can continue its long tradition of welcoming the brightest minds in the world to live and work here permanently. More than 350,000 high skilled LEGAL immigrants who are PAYING TAXES, LAW ABIDING, HIGHLY CONTRIBUTING to economy are struck at final stage of immigration (I 485) due to non-availability of visa numbers. As you know, skilled LEGAL immigrant provisions were tried three times in 109th Congress but failed due to controversial rider bills. The 110th Congress is going to work on Comprehensive Immigration Reform 2007, which will provide path to citizenship to 12 million illegal aliens. It would be a great justice to HIGHLY SKILLED LEGAL immigrants, if their backlog issue is addressed immediately before considering the issue of 12 million illegal immigrants.
